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Show WORLD CHIP 1 MY MEET MOK Sapulpa Giant Likely to Be i First Opponent of Jack Dempsey Next Month'. For the first time since he knocked Jess Willard loose from his title of heavyweight champion of the universe. uni-verse. Jack Dempsey will appear in the ring in a four-round bout in the Vernon arena some time during the next month. His opponent will, in all probability, be Carl Morris, the bulky Sapulpa giant. 1 Word that the match is tn h starpri comes from an authentic source and the bout is to be held under the aus-l pices of the Widows and Orphans' Aid 'society of Los Angeles. The police of the southern city are sponsoring tho show. Dempsey is now in Los Angeles.' Since his arrival there he has spent' most of his time training. He has! been boxing on an average of 15 ; rounds a day and doing from two to! ten miles on the road in the morning.' Jack Kearns, the champion's manager, man-ager, is in the- east at present, trying to figure out an angle wherein his champion can. take a decision over John W. Government when the pair) hook up next month in the federal! courts. Before leaving California! Kearns intimated that Dempsey would j bo seen in action soon and the forthcoming forth-coming battle is probably the one he had reference to. However, Dempsey, will 'have little chance to demonstrate anything but his punching power against Morris. Carl has fallen under his sledge ham-ber ham-ber wallopB a couple of times; in fact, he is the one who gave the champion a boost toward the top by lOBing the decision to him in four ronnrln at lhi Kan "CVonnJon un ' A &tu,o.U Utlil park. Obviously Dempsey Is not as well lined with this world's wealth as some would have us believe or he would not be considering so small I a purse as he is sure to get for a bout with Morris. Maybe Dempsey Is just trying to .prove his assertion, made before he fought Willard, "that if he won tho title he would be a fighting champion." cham-pion." It is almost a year now and Dempsey has not appeared In a bona fide boxing contest. |