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Show OEMPSEY QUITS ! UGAN CITY Kearns Says Champion Will Not Appear There Against Brennan CHICAGO, Aug. lit jack DsmpsSj ' : Mh hlK.au City, Ind . In disgust and i am to Chicago today when he learned learn-ed efforts to Uage the bout between -iw 11, i.ii, ,;iiu llllll II. HI I I IKll IV lilll- d. Jle arrived here In a none too cheerful frame of mind, particularly In view of the fact that the prtlim-laiy prtlim-laiy preparations have cost him about 15.000 Jack Kearny, his manager, was left at Michigan City to gather Ui tn loose ends and j.in Dcmpsey here later. lat-er. Since Governor Mc ra has prohibited pro-hibited the bout al the Indiana summer sum-mer resort, there have beon reports here that Charll l Murray, Buffalo promoter, pro-moter, was mailing etforts to have the fight transferred to that city. Oempsey said he expected to remain here for a day or two and then go I to California to visit relatives. KKARXS Mis No 1 GH.T. MICHIGAN" CITY. Ind.. Aug. 13 i-, ixeniiin. muilUKer OI J.'ICK IJeilip- sey, istiue.i a Btatemeht tontght that the heavyweight champion would not appear In an exhibition match against Bin Brennan here on Labor Day. ECearni said he had talked over the telephone with Governor McCray tonight to-night and that the governor had in-forn.ed in-forn.ed him ihit he had reeclvcd word from the lora post of the American legion withdrawing their support. Promoter Floyd Fitrsim rnons. Kearn-j sn hi. hid been given 21 hours to lean definitely whether the match could Bel staged and as Fltxnln.mons was not' certain that It could. Kearns had decided de-cided not to allow Dcmpsey to appear. ap-pear. Kearns paid he had heard nothing noth-ing from Charles Murray. Buffalo promoter, who was reported to be de-Birous de-Birous of transferring the Oempsey-Brennan Oempsey-Brennan go to the eastern city 00 |