Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1927-08-04 | Page 8 | Select Date for Bout Fighters Make Plans

Select Date For Bout tv y ff C 1 v vC C Q t i Cr tS l S Fighters Make Plans Dempsey Reserves Suite Atop Chicago Hotel Start Work Soon CHICAGO CHICAGO Aug 4 By By The Asso- Asso Associated elated dated Press The The wheels wh ls began to turn today in preparation for the Tunney Dempsey Dem SeY fight at Soldiers Soldiers' field which Tex Rickard now has hasset set fiet for September 22 The two prin prin- principals 4 were ordered to start their train train- training training c ing near Chicago i by September 1 a and Rickard sent s p. p s1 word that his ring ring- ringside ringI I i side fide seat builder t would start for fort t Chicago tomorrow I i He is Pat Mul- Mul t I ey vey builder of tracks for six day bike races By Saturday lie he will meet George T T. Donohue superintendent superintendent of the thc South Park board to togo togo togo go over construction plans I Two race track establishments which will be idle at the the- time were today offered as training quarters Lincoln fields was tendered by Colonel Matt Winn inn to Rickard for either Tunney or Dempsey and Exposition park at Aurora was offered to Tunney by the Aurora members of the American le legion le- le gion Either track has Ideal facilities ties for training and crowds One of cf the thousands of hotel rca res reservations received was from Dempsey who wired ired for the bungalow atop the Morrison hotel presumably for his wife's occupancy while his own train- train trainIng training Ing ung quarters were elsewhere Reports from Tunney's camp at Speculator N. N Y said Gene already had begun road work and sparring and that Billy Gibson his manager was discussing with him bins training camp sites There was a hint that the athletic commission would restrict the boxers to camps in Illinois Re Re- Reports Reports Reports ports were ere that Tunney had favored Lake Geneva Just across the thc Wiscon Wiscon- Wisconsin I sin line