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Show "I'M WORTH A MILLION!" WILLARD SAYS I . ! '. ( . I suifr Bpeotel) i (Copy wrlght, i'.'2i, in Newspaper Bn-terprisi Bn-terprisi Association) NEW FORK - Dollars! Hushing aollargl I've madi a million of m" says Giant Jess Wlllard. Tho ex-champlon so rich he purrsi has his six-cylinder heart set on ; beating Dempse) . what do i care for money? It's uolhlng," says Wlllard. i cleaned up almost JT50000 in' oil nione in two years "You betcha I did. Ain't that more'n I could get In tho ring In forty years'; . "And unole Sam bought my circus livestock Wagons and all brought me ' 1225.000.'" The millionaire fighter laughed a i Kansas farmer I.iiikIi as he nailed the ; "Wlllard wants to fight for money"! , story. "I'll fight Dempsey any place fori nothing if necessary. "What do I care about the gate rc-1 I IptS? Not lung: "It's the crown I lost I want back, I and 1 won't be lupuv without it." BUYS ROM I VI 1 1 nit M Jess came to .New York to take car of business mutters. Oil leases ami f.nal legal papers for his f40.00 home in Hollywood, CaL, which he's Just bought, are on his mind Beint; a millionaire busn't kepi Jess from taking exercise. Back Oh his Kansas farm near To-' 1! BBhBI BBBsgBBBS ILILLARD peka. he's been pulling weeds, hoeing his potatoes and chopping wopd. Be claims he's In better shape than when Dempsey kayoed him In Toledo. Jets looks It. oi mooR iiiv tn m Bver since the fight at Toledo I've I boen working out. Not strenuously, but exercising. "The Whdl trouble with piixe fight'-I fight'-I eis w uo ln off is they turn over on I their backs and g-t soft and flabhs I "It didn't happen to m Not on I vour life! "My gymnasium for two years ha j been the great outdoors. "When I meet Demysey in March, the world will see a different flgh'. 1 1 1 v mil I "I'm going to win. I lost to Denip sev bv accident. He bit nae when i ! broke clean In a clinch- After Ihe first ! round started I never knew I was in i a fight. 'if I lose well. I can't sa . Huhi oit l what I'd do. Retire. I suppose. 1 ain't ' figuring on thai." Hi.H I V SKCRfl Ktttt the millionaire handles his financial fi-nancial business he'll look ovei a training taalD In New Jersey. Refusinu to give data on his weight lor his waist line, the giant shifted his underpinning. For Jess bigger than ever. The scales look like In d run em up" to 2C0 at least. Ills o N BOSS. 'And tell 'em I'm my own manager, loo. Ray Archei Just handles my lusi-DCSS lusi-DCSS affair- for me. "I can hanui- myself best when left alone." With that, the biggeft man who ivr went down In a urUta ring, faded 0Ut of the blctUt e- all -miles and Jingling Jing-ling his o.ly dollars. |