Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1920-01-08
TIA JUANA, Mex,
TO Be SCENE Of
BIG TITLE BOUT
Dempsey's Manager Declares
Championship Battle Will
Be Held in Coffroth's
Big Arena.

WOTlQ heavyweight champion, ana
Georges Carpenter, European chant
piof,. has been. accepted. according
10 press dispatches by Carpenter S
manager. Deschamps, cabled TO
Charles ]. Harvey, his agent in Lon
don, TO get i'll communication with
Carpenter and Deschamps at once
: and learn their plans.
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. Los Angeles, Cal, Jan. Tia
: luana, Mex, will get the Dempsey
. Carpenter fight" said Jack kearns,
= manager for the worlds champion,
- when advised today by The Asso-
y ciated Press Of Georges Carpenters
;. conditional acceptance of Promoter
= Coffroths offer. Kearns said he
: would prepare a further statement
- shortly.
= Kearns, Dempsey and Cotfroth
= said they favored July 4 as the fight
date and all expressed satisfaction
with Georges Carpenters accept
4 ance of Cotfroth's offer. They said
!. they would agree to Carpenters
= suggestion for limiting the fight to
:. IS rounds.
= Favor Fifteen Rounds.
= The l5-round limit set by Des-
. champs is 0. X with me- Kearns
said. Personally, | do not believe
= the fight will last much longer than
e one round. Six would suit Dempsey
=, and me just as we'll as Is.
II feel that there should be a win
y ner's and losers end of the purse,
:. and believe 100000 to the winner
= and 100000 to the loser is fair.
y Descamps wants the purse split
:. $780, maintaining that Carpenter
is as good a drawing card as
: Dempsey.
Z, That may be. but whether OF
not he is as good fighter is the
= question. The French people are
= good sports. Now let Carpenter
Mand Deschamps take sportsman's
= chance; but the splitting of \the
purse will not hold up the fight.
= --.Coffroth told me that Dempsey
land Carpenter could split the NOV
ling picture money $3.50. Moving
pictures of the show will be more
valuable than any other ever held
ION account of the international as
spect."
Z Dempsey was less concerned with
the financial aspects. Gust think,
Jack" said the champion, we'll not
s~.have to take another long, tiresome
-train ride. With our picture over
lin March all we'll have to do is to
t.ssstart work for the Frenchman.'
= July 4 Probable Date.
Z Promoter Coffroth talked over the
slong distance telephone with the
J. os Angeles Express today. cal
though | cannot give out any infor.
'smation regarding the date until l
-'get word from Deschamps, | believe
@July 4 is the ideal one" said Coff-
roth. independence day has always.
sbeep banner date for holding bat
sllesl for the heavyweight crown, and
II IN very strong for il"
i Tia Juana is across the internationa
boundary below San Diego in Lower
california, Mexico. The town itself
IS a village supported largely by
Tourists in search of, curios and
games of chance. Coffroth has
race track there. Two railroad lines
and an autopobile- road lead into
Tia Juana FROM the United States.
: Coffroth has announced he prob
ably will build an arena for the
fight. Persons familiar with Mexican
customs and law believe Governor
Esteban Cantu of Lower California
will not interfere with the fight.
Deschamps Accepts.
= Paris, Jan. 7.-Georges Carpenter
and Jack Dempsey will probably
meet in America for the champion
ship of the world as result of the
acceptance, Tuesday night, by Des-
Champs, manager for Carpenter, of
an offer of 100000 purse for the
bout by James Coffroth. Dempsey
I has already accepted Coffroth's
terms. and all that remains to en-
sure the meeting of the two pug
.3iists is the settlement OF the num-
Der of rounds the men will fight and
The division Of the purse.
Coffroth's offer was for a bout
going IS rounds, but objection to
light of this length is expressed in
the Carpenter camp. Carpenter
would rather have the fight limited
TO IS rounds or even 10. Deschamps
declared last night that if the issue
is not settled in less than Is rounds
sneither Dempsey nor Carpenter is
worthy to be champion of the
world"
1t was indicated Deschamps would
ask for an even break of the purse,
holding Carpenter was as great
drawing card as Dempsey. .
Keafns Cables Advice.
4 San Diego, Cal, Jan. 7.-Over
Telephone, Kearns informed James
w. Coffroth that he had eabled Des-
champs, Carpenters manager, in
forming him that Dempsey will
fight for Coffroth at Tia Juana and
advising him to accept the match if
he has not already done so.
81 am advised by the Associated
8 Press that Deschamps has agreed to
my terms and am expecting
sablegram from the Frenchman's
manager some time soon," said COT
roth. II am convinced that there
Is no foundation to denials purport-
yng to come from Paris stating that
Deschamps has not agreed to my
proposition. Kearns, T understand,
tas advised Deschamps to accept
the Tia Juana offer and that is bound
70 carry weight with the challenger
snd his manager. I feel confident
that | viii land the bout"
Governor Not Consulted.
= MeSicali. Lower California, Mex,
Jan. THE governor said he knew
uothing of Promoter Ceffroth's
plans, and added that, Of course, the
light could not be staged without
TIE consent of the government. He