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Show JACK AND GEORGES BOX ON PERCENTAGE NEW YORK, March 23 The haiJ million dollar purse for which Jack! Dempsev and Georges Carpentier were' to have fought on Jul 2 ha been ' withdrawn and thc heavyweights will box on a percentage basis when they epgage in their world's championship battle This announcement was made, he.o today by Promoter Tex Rickardj after Several conferences with representatives repre-sentatives of the principals. Under the new agreement, the pugilists pug-ilists Will re Hve sixty per cent Of the. gross gale receipt- (if thlv sum th winner will tak i0 per rent and the loser 40 per cent The contract orlg- ' inally provided that Dempsey a (hamplon was to receive $300,000 an l Carpentier, as challenger. $200,000. i |