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Show MANAGER OF ewe WILL IKE MATCH GO Will Give. Signature to Any 1 Promoter Who Will Bring Sufficient Guarantees I PAK1S, Feb. 25. That a fight be- tween Georges Carpentler and Jack g Dompse.v for the heavyweight champ- (8 ionship of the world will go to what- ever promoter succeeds in signing i Dempsey to a contract is the gist of an I interview with M. Deschamps, Car- pentler's manager, which will be pub- & lishod by Sporting, a weekly publica- K tion. K "I have given my signature to C. B. g Cochran of London, Theodore VIenne S of Paris, William Fox of New York, gj and Tex Rickard, as 1 shall give It to g anyone who shall bring me sufficient K guarantees, always however, with the ji provision that Dempsey's signature be jfffl obtained," said M. Deschamps, jfij Mr. Cochran Is a personal ff-iend of m mine. That is why I gave him the pre- !a ference after Carpenllcr's match with jfe Beckett. But up to this date ho has g been unable to secure Dempsey's sig- ' nature. .Meanwhile, I have received fcf telegrams from Jack Kearns. manager .Jaj of Dempaey, saying that Dempsey had not signed Avith anyone. He also ad- m vised me strongly to deal with Tox ;i Ttlckard and asked me to go to the United States where he said Kearns ,2j and Rickard were awaiting me. Car- ft pentier and I will leave .March 13. a "I am not forgetting that' Cochran jtf holds Carpentler practically bound un-. jjuj til the Tirst of the year, but Inasmuch jgd as ho has not succeeded in securing w Dempsey's signature and when he M realizes that this will be Impossible, Bj he is too good a sport to stand in our SI way of putting the fight through, be- wj cause, should Dempsey sign with Rick- m ,ard or Fox the contract Cocllran has i ft with us becomes null." I 5 Vinniv Hip Pnris nronintor has vlr itii tually given up hopo of holding a bout between Carpentier and Dempsey in (ffi France, owing to the exchange rate sit-uatloni, sit-uatloni, and Sporting says it is the op- J$ inion of Deschamps and all sporting men in Paris that if the fight takes place K, will be In the L'nitcd States. H |