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Show BOW TOURNEY IS CALLED OFF CHICAGO. Aug. 9. The possibility of a Willarm-Dompsey go vanished tonight, to-night, when the committee in charge of the athletic carnival for the Salvation Salva-tion Army overseas war fund called off the entertainment. It was originally planned that the fighters should meet in a boxing tournament tour-nament at the White Sox ball park, but Acting Chief of Police AJcock announced an-nounced he would enforce the stato antiflght law If It took every man on his force. Tho proposal to take the bouts to Fort Sheridan fell through because of failure on the part of the committee to confer with the army authorities. Jesd Willard, Ted Lewis and Johnny Kil-bane Kil-bane arrived in Chicago tonight--from Fort Sheridan after being told tiTe would be no fights. |