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Show Pantages Sues Jack Dempsey for $100,000 Damages I LOS ANGELES, March 2 4. Jack j Dempsey. heavyweight boxing champion cham-pion of the world, was sued for $100,000 here today by Alexander Pantages, proprietor of a chain of vaudeville theatres, who alleged breach of contract for stage appcv r-ances- Pantages alleged that Dempsey, after af-ter filling an engagement In Los Angeles, An-geles, refused to continue his tour. Which was to have been for 20 weeks moro, Put loft for the east and in poS-ton poS-ton appeared at a rival theatre. He asks ?6u,000 as the profits ho kald he would have received had Dcnip fulfilled his alleged contract. and 140,004 for the publicity which he j declared the champion's appearance at his theatres would have rroducecL |