New Britain herald., 1920-11-06
DEMPSEY AND CARP.
 SIGNED FOR BOUT
Ring MOnarChS Agree to Fight for
 PrinCely Purse

New York, Nov. 6.-Jack Demp-
 sey, worlds heavyweight champion pugiIist. and Georges Carpenter, i heavyweight champion of Europe and
 light heavyweight champion of the
 world. signed an agreement yesterday afternoon, by the terms of which they are bound to meet in the ring be- tween March 1, 1921, and July of
 the same year in a contest of not more than fifteen rounds nor less than ten. rounds.
 The promoters, Charles B. Cochran of London, England, and William A. Brady and Tex Rickard of New York, bind themselves to pay s300,0O0 to
 Jack Dempsey and s20O,000 to Georges Carpenter for their services
 in the ring, and the triumvirate also
 agree to name the time and place
 for the bout sixty days in advance
 of the contest. The promoters thus
 have the three principal holidays
 St. Patrick's Day. Memorial Day and
 July ito choose from, and are re- stricted in the matter of location to
 the United States. Mexico. Cuba or Canada.
 Limiting the rounds 10 a maximum of fifteen or a minimum of ten is
 proof positive that the promoters plan to stage the contest in some state where boxing is iegalized. with the chances largely favoring New York.
 As the agreement had been legally drawn and all its terms endorsed pre- vious to the meeting there was no debate. The actual ceremony there fore consisted in the promoters. box CTS and managers signing their names to the contract. This did not occupy more than half an hour, and was not half So exciting as many a confer ence to settle a real estate deal. The papers were signed in the ball room of the Hotel Claridge.
 It was observed that Carpentier handles q pen with more facility than Dempsey, the American champion a right-hook in signing his name while the Frenchman per- formed the operation by feinting with his left and sending the right over with accuracy and speed.
 CubanS ArrIvc.
 Just as the meeting was called to order Marcos Gonzalez and Rafael Posse. the Cubans who were said to be ready to take the match off the hands of the present promoters, en- tered the room and were introduced rom the platform. MT. Gonzalez said a Cuban syndicate was ready to give s700.000 for the match, but he 'ealized they had arrived too late.
 It was rumored that Tom O'Rourke vas ready to post a big forfeit in of his s60O.000 proposition, ,ut Tex Rickard set at rest all doubt ls to who would stage the bout by de- daring emphatically tha. his interest | n the contest was not for sale, and l Ir. Cochran made the same state | nent. Cochran added:
 "I hope the fighters will exert | themselves as hard in the ring as the | promoters did in arran ging the con- 1 est" l
 Rickard made the announcement | hat the contest would not he staged Dn a ball ground or any indoor struc- ture but that he would build a great | arena that would hold the largest crowd that ever attended a pugilstic contest. and that the seats would be sold at prices ranging from s5 to $50.
 The articles of agreement comprise twenty-seven sections. covering fif- teen typewriter pages, and every situation is so thorough ly provided for that there is appar- ently no loopholc for evasion or mis- 
 Both Dempsey and Carpenter are permitted under the terms to engage in bouts previous to their meeting in the ring, with the proviso that Demp- sey shall not box in Europe and Car pentier shall not enter a ring con- test in America.