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Show Tunney Will Get Cool Million for Go with Dempsey Gene Tunney, heavyweight champion cham-pion of the world, is to get (1,000,000 for his fight with Jack Dempsey, Sept. 22, at Chicago. All financial arrangements arrange-ments have been made and certified checks have been deposited with the Illinois boxing commission. Dempsey, Utah mauler, is to get $450,000. It has been figured that for each three minutes of fighting Tunney will receive as much as the head of the United States Steel corporation gets in salary in a year. Here are some of the salaries paid to the biggest men in the life of the nation in politics, business and in sports: President of the U. S $75,000 President U. S, Steel Corp 100,000 Judge Landis 75,000 Will Hayes 100,000 Babe Ruth 70,000 Ty Cobb 40,000 Rogers Hornsby 40,000 Governor New York state 10,000 Mayor of New York City 25,000 I Secy, of Treasury A. Mellon.... 15,000 Secy, of Commerce Hoover....'15,000 Chief Justice Taft ........ 20,500 Vice President Dawes 15,000 U. S. Congressmen and Senators, each 10,000 The new contracts, arranged by Tex Rickard over the week-end with the champion and his challenger, were substitutes for the original agreement which gave the two fighters an option of a percentage of the purse. The new terms give them the flat guarantees embodied in their pay checks handed to the boxing commission tonight, and no further'participation in Rickard's hoped for $3,000,000 gate. . The million-dollar certified check is just twenty times as large a sum as has been posted with the Illinois commission. com-mission. Rocky Kansas was given a $50,000 guarantee for his unsuccessful defense of his lightweight title in Illinois' Il-linois' first fight under the new law, a year ago. |