The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-11
Blue Ribbons VS Fast Brooklyn Quintet Tonight At Colonial Hall
DEMP SEY SIGNS
 TO FIGHT WILLARD
Salt Lake City Boxer Ac- cepts Richards Offer of
 $27,5OO for Bout.

New York, Feb. 11-Tn an out-of- the-way corner of the Weehawken, N. J., terminal of the West Shore Railroad Jack Dempsey, Salt Lake { City heavyweight, yesterday signed articles to box Jess Willard, title holder, in a heavyweight champion ship bout to be promoted in July, probably on Independence Day, by Tex Rickard.
 Under the terms of the contract . the bout will be any distance up to 40 rounds. Willard will receive s100.000 and one-third of the nov ing picture rights, while Dempsey is guaranteed $27,500, with one-third of the moving picture privileges.
 Rickard, by mutual arrangement with Dempsey and Jack Kearns, the boxers manager, agree to deposit forthwith the sum of $10,000 in a bank to be decided upon, while ! Kearns and Dempsey will post $5, as 9 guarantee of good faith. Forty eight hours before the time of the bout Rickard agrees to deposit the remaining s17,500, Dempsey's share of the purse. Dempsey, with VII { lard, must be on the scene of the bout six weeks before the date of ! the proposed contest to complete training for the match.
 With the exception of the financial l differences and an additional provi- 1 sion, the contract signed by Dempsey is similar to the one which Willard signed Jan. 24 at Chicago. The addi- , tional provision sets forth that if the match is promoted outside of North America Promoter Rickard agrees to defray the travelling expenses of the l participants. This condition will shortly be inserted in the Willard contract.
 Dempsey like the champion, is pro- hibited from taking part in any box ing match between now and the time he enters the ring against Willard, at q time and place to be announced by Rickard sixty days prior to the date of the contest
 Waste No Time Signing
 The actual signing of the contract . by Dempsey was dispatched with an absence of much of the glaInor and ceremonies which have marked the closing of negotiations for important ring bouts in the past. The forth coming match will make pugilistic history, in point of purse moneys, particularly. yet there was no flour ishing of huge sums of money or popping of corks or any of the other attending features which have come almost to be regarded as customary with the conclusion of preliminary details in connection with important ring happenings.
 When this had been completed, Promoter Rickard and his party de- cided to repair to New Jersey for the purpose of formally signing the articles. This was decided expedient, so that there could be no question about the legality of the agreement
 Emerging from the Clarldge, Rick ard, Dempsey, Dorgan and Kearns were met by battery of movie op- orators, whose machines were all posed for the occasion. The quartet was instructed to stand against the hotel wall and Hook businesslike. .' On both sides were hundreds of anil mated faces, while on the farther curbstone were lined additional hun dreds, all eager to get a peek at the challenger for Willards crown. After the pictures were taken the party climbed into a waiting taxi and was driven to the West Shore ferry.
 On the contract signed appeared the names of four Jacks. They were Jack Dempsey, Jack Kearns, Jack Ike' Dorgan and Jack Skelly, the d-time featherweight boxer,