New-York tribune., 1920-10-27
Promoters to Build arena Here:
Boxers Must Post $4,000 EacI,
Fighters Also to Divide
Half of Motion Picture
Rights; To Sign To-day
CONTINUED from paoe ene)

declared their willingness to finance
the bout for philanthropic reasons. ex-
pect to make money out of it. They
will have tc shape the prices to pay ior
the purse and other expenses.
Various sums have been offered for
bout between Carpenter and Demp-
seys ranging almost up to the sum
which Rickard and his associates have
offered. but no offers were taken seri-
ously until the arrival Of Cochran from
England. Richard, who had been
dreaming Of the match since Dempsey
became champion of the world, finally
reached an agreement. he had DYmp
sey's tentative contract from the day
that Dempsey became champion.
Rickard has been the most spectacle
lar of the fcht promoters. He star
ed in the game while he was one OF
the propretors of the Northen, gan
bling house in Goldfeld, New, in the
days when Nevada was wide opc' and
the frontier of all frontier states.
About that time various promoters
were trying to arrange a match be-
tween Joe Cans, the negro lightweight
champion. and Battling Nelson. Rick.
ard finally offered $4,000 for the Ut.
Rickard Produces Purse in Gold
The boxers were skeptical Nelson
visited Goldfeld on chance that this
dream Of gold might be true Rickq ID
showed him the entire purse in twen-
ty-dollar gold pieces. Nelson was on
vinced and the bout was held.
Later Rickard bid Sl21 900 for the
Jeffries-J ohnSon fight and GOT it. lie
planned to hold it in San Francisco.
but the Governor of the state at she
last minute declared that the bout
must not be held. Rickard made a
quick shift to Reno. New. and the
bout drew more than $4,000 Since
then Rickard promoted the Willl.a-
Moran bout and the Willard Dempsey
bout.
With the formal signing of the
articles, Dempsey probably will pinch
himself TO make sure that he is awake
Three years ago the young man who
what is termed in the language of
fistiana, a pork and beaner. He came
to the fore as boxer and knocker-
out IN the days when prize fights were
not quite popular The United States
was then engaged in the World War
and the casualty lists were more care
fully perused than the boxing notes.
Dempsey Came Here Broke
attention around New York He came
here broke and was financed to the
extent of an overcoat to keep the
wntery blasts from snuffing out the
future champion by local character
called John the Barber His first bout
here was with John Lester Johnson, a
colored fighter, and Dempsey lost the
popular decision.
Then followed long period of en-
forced fasting on the part Dempsey
nc nc was knocked out by Fireman Jim
Flynn, the ancient Pueblo battler, but
this, they say, was "one of those
things Then Dempsey began to come
to the fore until the decartion of
war, when bouts became scarce. With
the war on, it naturally was con-.
sidered incongruous for able e-bodied
young man of the military age to be
IN prize fight when they might be
in the army
On July 4, of last year. DEMPSEY
knocked out Jess Willard at Toledo
ms end of the purse was S27.5OO. He
had to take the contender's end
" Hard got 100000 Dempsey de-
clared afterward that he would Ger
,alnly get. the big end of the next
peut. lie did not dream that it would
nc three times what Willard got at
Toledo. az
"hile Dempsey was winning his wav
toward the championship GEORGES
C,,arpentier was serving as a soldier of
france. ne did not engage in any
Dou' "niic he was in the service, but
ShortIy after the war he knocked ont
Joe Beckett, the champion of EnpIand
CaFpentier's first bout in this coun-
try' with Battling Levinsky. was some
thlng OF fascvo, but that was not tho
fault OF the Frenchman. Levinskv was
picked as logical opponent and Car
pentler knocked him out easily. Snort
~ after the final arrangements for tho
bout with Dempsey are made. Car-
pentler Win sail for Europe and re-
turn sixty days before the date set
for the fight. N@'e seV