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Show CARPENTIEA AND Uf S AGREE 01 Till BOUT Will Go Between 10 and 15 Rounds on Date Sometime in Soring NEW YORK, Oct, S.6. J.fk Demp-sey Demp-sey and Ceoiges Carpentier were matched her this afternoon for a fight for the heavyweight championship champion-ship of the world The contract will be formally signed tomorrow. iO To tS ROUNDS I'ndor the terms of the contract I agrtod upon today, the pugilists will meet some lime between February 1 and July 1, 1 D ' 1 . The conditions stipulate a bout between ten and flf-teen flf-teen rounds for u record purse and a percentage Of the motion picture re-celpts. re-celpts. The number of rounds, the place of battie and the exact date are subject to discussion of the promoters who arc-to arc-to inform the principals at l?ust slxt lav..- before the contest. IM.I i IE PROF1 I S Bach fighter receives a 26 per cent lkl 1 K a l I,.., nlatniia r....C.I. I V, A '"ft"' III U HlW'IVil .l.v.- v.. other fifty per cent going to the pro-mot. pro-mot. -rs. The bout will be conducted by Te Rlckard, Charles Cochran, of London : and William A Hrady. the last biame'd represent!--' Cochran's interests, The COntracf was agreed to after a long conferehi today at which were present pres-ent the John, promoters. Jack Kearn. mangcet of Jack Dempsey ami Fran-cots Fran-cots Descampa manager of Carpentier, Carpen-tier, and four lawyers wepresenting the arioos inti rests involved. While Teg Rlckard and his fellow promoters refused to disclose the amount of the purse to be giv,"i the pugilists before the formal signing of the contract tomorrow it is known that, including certain percentages it will approach 5o0.l00. This is far in excels of any previous purse, the record being held by Rick-ard's Rick-ard's contract vsith Jess Wlllard and Jack Dempsey, whereby Wlllard received re-ceived $100,000 and Dempsey 127,500 lor their fight 'at Toledo on July !. 1919 The division of the purse will show World Champion Dempsey re-celving re-celving more than Carpentier. the challenger and holder of the Europe in heavyweight title. FR.iri IN . While the promoters arp understood under-stood to be planning to hold the bout in Madison Square Garden, ample provision is made for the shifting o? the contest to another city in case opposition op-position arises from any source. Under the contract it will be possible to ho.'d the fight in Canada. Mexico, Cuba or the West Indies. The sit of the contest and the date will not be finally arranged for some time. M.m managerial and legal obstacles had to be overcome before the match could be made, because of the various contracts which one or the other of pugilists had previously signed- oo |