Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-29
CHAMP BACK in
CHICAGO AFTER
HIS TRIP WEST
All Kinds Of Promoters Poster Him
With Huge Offers to Act in
Circus or on Stage.

chicago, July 29.-Jack Dempsey,
worlds heavyweight champion,
landed in the city yesterday. That
might be put in the words, Jack
Dempsey is home" for the title
holder has decided to make Chi
cago his home of the future, de-
spite the fact his parents reside in
Salt Lake City. There are two rea-
sons for this. One is that Dempsey
likes Chicago; the other is that a
large city is better adapted to a
champion for business reasons.
Dempsey came from Salt Lake
City. His face bore a smile as he
hoped off the train after his long
trip from Utah. He looks in great
shape in spite of the relaxation
which followed his defeat of Jess
Willard. Naturally his thoughts
were conferred on two cities, Salt
Lake, the place he had left, and
Chicago, the place he had reached.
Operation on Nose.
"Gee, mother was glad to see me, -
said Champion Jack. "Of course
she thought 1 was going to become
champion and naturally after won
the title she was anxious to see me.
1t was necessary for mother to
wait some little time, however, be-
fore I could go to Salt Lake, but
her greeting made up for the loss
of time
The object of Dempsey's trip
here may be decided today or to-
morrow. For one thing, he is going
to have an operation on his nose
and specialist in that line will do
the operating. Seems for many
months the champion has had some
difficulty in nasal breathing. Some
folks who know him well have been
under the impression that he is a
mouth breather. But, as a matter
of fact, it is a nostri1 obstruction
that has caused his mouth breath
ing. That's what the physician is
to remedy and the operation will be
performed either today or tomor-
row.
Offer Rich Purse.
But an operation Is a small mat
ter in comparison to other reasons
for Dempsey's trip here He was
pestered all afternoon by promoters
and other guys who want to show
him how he can clean up an awful
wad of Jack. They want to put him
in circuses, in the movies, and on
the stage where the regular actors
appear, and they don't seem to care
how much coin they offer for his
services. But after a long train
jaunt is no time to talk business,
so the champion and his manager,
Jack Kearns, decided to hold of a
day or two before accepting any Of
these Turing bids.
The first bid that came IN was f5f
stage work An the promoter Of
fered was $4,000 a week for some
thing like thirty weeks work. Then
another bid for 20 weeks work
came along and for this SIC, 900 per
week was offered. Several motion
picture offers and a couple from
syndicates which went to turn out
stories with Dempsey's signature
over them came through It is pos
sfble that nothing will be done by
Dempsey before the first of next
week regardless Of which offer he
accepts.
The champion realizes that there
will be nothing doing for him in the
fighting game against American
scrappers for some time to come,
so it is possible he may be matched
to scrap the winner OF the Georges
Carpenter Joe Beckett match,
which is to be held shortly.
Dempsey wants to meet the win
ner of that match in this country
because he believes that it would
draw more money here than in
London or Paris. However, if it
becomes a matter Of fighting abroad
or not fighting at all it is a pretty
safe bet that Jack will do the sail
ing to show the winner of the
French-British conflict that his
hooks are in working order.