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Show Dempsey Refuses $3000 Purse for Three Round Go TARIS. May 2. Jack Dempsey. prior to his departure for Berlin, re- fused nn offer of $3,000 for a three-round, three-round, exhibition match in a Paris niiK. 11 hnv become known. While this offer far exceeded any made previously pre-viously for such a brief appearance, the heavyweight champion's answer was that It is useless to speak of any amount less than 55.000. A municipal councillor who later akcd Hempsey to give an exhibition for charity says he has received no answer to ins communication. |