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Show JACK READY TO I HGHTTM ALL I BY BOB DORM AN. NEW YORK "You know mv first lJ name a Jack," and tho heavyweight jf champion grinned ' And it's the Jack lH that will decide whom I'll fight next." We were sitting in his dressing room waiting for tho bell to call him to the stage of the Hippodrome, where Dempsey is pulling on his act He had Just finished a careful scan-ning scan-ning of the results of the NEA vote on an opponent to meet him in the next heavyweight title match. Still smiling, he continued ' It sort of seems that the fans want me to meet Wills or Gibbons. "Well, it doesn't make any differ- ) ence to me. "Bring any of 'em on. White or black, yellow or brown. American or J Chinaman, It's nil one to me lH "All I ask Is that some reliable pro ) moter handle the match. "None of these fly-by-night birds who try to promote a fight on a shoe-string, shoe-string, propose to hold it somewhere and th.n find it banned, und finally end up by getting the ligh't banned all over the country. "I want some promoter to handle the affair who kllOWB where he stands and who can guarantee that he can iH hold the fight at the time and place bo proposes. "Any responsible man who will ot for to promote a match on tho right basis will have no difficulty in get-ting get-ting my John Hancock." I To all of which Kearns gave his cm phatic approval. Dempsey shows absolutely no Signs. 01 going back. On the contrary, he looks like a much improved boxer over the man who took the title from Jess Wlllard. In his three rounds that he boxes In his dally act he displays a finish that he lacked when he won the cbam-pionshlp. cbam-pionshlp. He still retains the marvelous speed shown in his past fights, and is In such magnificent physical condition that only two or three weeks would be rn. . - to put him in shape for titlo batle. |