The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-13
$4,000 OFFER !!
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4 MADE DEMPSEY
FOR LEVNSKY.
Manager Dan Morgan EStab-
fishes Claim to First Fight.
With Champion and Dave
MaCKay Makes Offer.
BY WALTER ST. DENIS.

NEW YORK. Oct. 13.-Jaek Demp-
sey may have his own. idea as
to. what he is worth in an eiSht4-
round bout, and whether he would get
nus sum or not is not a question herey
Sutflce IT TO say that he has in his inpr
side pocket today, unless the wires got
damned up, an offer of S26, 900 tn fight
an eight-round bout over in the Sports
mems ub,Newark. with Battling Lea
whisky. as his opponent, said bout to
take place early in December.
As we told the other dav, the cham
pion is with the Sells-Floto circus on
the Texas circuit. and will he with it
for six weeks That will take him to
Nov. Is. at which time he said he would
trend eastward and make New York
he said to the writer that II he werS
properly approached he might consider
an offer to box in this vicinity. gs-
Manager Dave MacKay, of the Sports4n
mems club Of Newark, learning that
Dempsey could be approached, at once
sought out advice as to who would he
the best maj for the champion to meet
at his club whenever Dempsey would
be ready. He read long and studied
hard the claim put in by Leo p. Flynn,
the manager of Bill Brennan, and then
bumped right into Dan Morgan. the "
manager Of Battling Levinsky. When
he got through he was convinced that
the clever Interchangeable champion "
was the proper man to stack against
the champion. Then he sent a wire to
Dempsey asking him if S25, 900 would
coax him INTO the ring with the Batter. n
So far Jack has not been heard FROM
but the chances are he will be. 's.
We are sure that Jack will want a
bit more than S25, 600 to fight even an"
eieht-round bout, for the memory
Of Jess Willard getting more than S45.-
600 to night Frank Moran in the Car
Aaa t- Lktn Fr0rt, Joal. lY,AaYr1 tl-AAL
these are advanced days in the paying
out of money. except in newspaper Of
fees. and he'll want some more than
$4,000. but will probably allow a cut,
knowing that the bout would be two
rounds shorter in schedule than the
Garden thing was.
However, MacI<ay may stand for a
raise, but just how much we cannot
say. He Is busy today feeling the pulse
of his patrons. and II II. beats hard
enough he may 90 as high as $4,000 to
get the mill. That's only our guess
though, MacI<ay's business ability in
the fight line has been tested and the
books of the Sportsmen's club tell their
story.
Dan Morgan was all heated UP, heat"
ed only as Dan can get when he Is
crossed, when he read Leo Flynn's as
Sortmert of reasons why Dempsey
should ignore all others and take on
his mar, Bill Brennan first. Leo's great
est claim was the fact that it took
Jack longer TO whip his man than It
did to dump Willard. Fred Fulton and
Carl Morris, Jack having consumed sew
en- rounds in whipping Brennan and
then not by a knockout, Leo says, be-
cause Bill was forced from the contest y
by a broken ankle. fH,t
But the thing that proved on Nor
CANS mind was the statement by the
Brennan mentor 10 the effect that Bill
bad whipped L~evinsky, which feat re-
moved the. Battler from any range OF
the illogical contendershin.'
Nov let me tell you began Mot 4
gan, that Levinsky has whipped Breu-
nan twice to referees decisions. both /
times in Boston. will admit that the I
first time they met Brennan did get a
questionable decision over the batter
in Boston, and, as seid' before, twice
to that Is the fact that Billy Miske
beat Brennan down in Tulsa in a t5-'i
rourd. bout. and only last July 3 Lee
whisky whipped Miske out in Toledo.
There is reason enough to remove Bren-
nan for Levinsky.
There Is no man more feared In the
heavyweight ranks now than Levinsky.
Even such a bear-cat as Harry Greb
will have nothing to do with him. Bat I
whipped him once. and only last week
refused to meet him in a bout in Ctn- !
cinnati which would have drawn SIS, 900, 1
Further than that Levinsky is going 1
better row than he ever did. He has
had eight fights since the armistice
was signed last November, and Won
them all, and been declared by good
judges to be the only man in the world
today fit to make the champion eK-
tend himself, -