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Show I LlS SMS MB I MIT GET E SHE Coffroth Goes to Tijuana To Look Over Site For Huge Stadium SAN DIEGO, Cal , Jan. 10. If Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier are matched to box for the heavyweight championship of the world it will be with the understanding that the win-ner win-ner take 75 per cent of the purse, ac-cording ac-cording to Jack Kenrns, Dempsey's manager, who was here today for a conference with James W. Coffroth, whose bid of $400,000 for the bout to H. be held at Tijuana, Lower California, Hj has been declared acceptable by Hi Kearns. Reiterating his former statement that he would prefer that Dempsey fight in America and in a bout pro-, moted by Coffroth,- the manager of j Dempsey said: ' "The Coffroth bid of $400,000 is ac- ceptable to us and we seo no reason 1 j why the fight could not be held at! Tijuana. It is true that Cochrane, the j English promoter, has Carpentier sign- j efl lor a fight with Dempsey and that this agreement is effective until early in February, why, naturally, wc must' wait until the agreement expires if Carpentier Is to appear in a bou pro-j moted In this country by Coffroth." I Coffroth 'Capable. As regards the other bids, two of! which aro higher than Coffroth made.! j Kearns declared that the question of a few thousand dollars would not de-ter de-ter him from accepting the Coffroth "I want to make It plain that I con-' sider Coffroth the most capable pro-moter pro-moter for the fight," said Kearns. "If the fight is held we will Insist that the; purse be split 75 and 25" per cent. We 'lon't want to go abroad and fight, but, if we must we will insist on a guar- Coffroth said he was hourly await-ing await-ing a cable from Charles Harvey, his, foreign representative, on the qucs ! lion of direct word from Carpentier. j Kearns and Cofrroth will go to Ti-I Juana tomorrow, and view the site for the proposed arena. Kearns plans to return to Los Angeles tomorrow night. Agreement Conditional. :JAR1S, Jan. 10. M. Descamps, man-ager man-ager of Georges Carpentier, when shown a dispatch from Chicago quot-lng quot-lng C. B. Cochrane, he English pro-raoter, pro-raoter, as saying that Cochrane held the signature of Descamps to a con-tract con-tract for a fight between Jack Denip-s,oy Denip-s,oy and Carpentier in London, and would sue for damages should Des-camps Des-camps fall to carry out the contract. declared that tho agreement was a conditional one. Descamps asserted that the agreement agree-ment was signed immediately after the roccnt Carpentier-Beckott fight in Loudon, i and that it was conditional on Cochrane's obtaining Dempsey's signaturo to a similar contract before , Jonuary 15. In the event of the fail-' ure of Cochrane to obtain Dempsey's! j signature, M. Descamps added, the) ! agreement automatically expires on : ! that date. ( EL PASO, Texas. Jan. 9. Jack I Dempsey, world's champion heavy-j weight boxer, was charged with having "apparently skulked in hiding from tho i draft boards" during the late war, and Geoiges Carpentier, his French rival 1 for championship honors, was made a I life honorary member of the post, at a i meeting of the El Paso post of tho American Am-erican Legion held here tonight. The local post also appropriated $25 to be wagered on Carpentier in his coming! fight with Dempsey. ' oo |