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Show 00 , j Champ Dempsey Said ; j to Ifave Salted $50,000! I LOS ANGELES, Jan. 1 Jack Demp-' sey, according to reliable authority, 1 has salted away more than $50,000 since ho won the heavyweight championship cham-pionship of the world from Jess Willard Wil-lard in Toledo last July. Ray Cannon, Milwaukee financier, and Gportsman, is acting as the champion's cham-pion's eastern financial agent and ad-, viser, and it has been learned here ! that Dempsey already has sent 50.000 to Cannon. The latter is said to have I invested this money in gilt-edge securities, se-curities, j All efforts to determine tho amount,) of money Dempsey is to receive for his 1 motion picture contracts have failed. 1 but it is alleged that the titleholder 1 will be handed over not less than $100,000 for his work and the royalties I from the film. 1 1 |