The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-21
DEMPSEY'S BOND
 SEEMS TO BE THE
 ONLY ONE MISSING
Cochrane and Brady Won't Discuss Richards Offer Yet.
 May Be Legal Action
CONTRACT NOT VIOLATED

Los Angeles, January 20.-The
 contract for n heavyweight cham
 pionship bout between Jack Demp-
 sey and Georges Carpentier has
 not necessarily been violated, if
 Dempsey's forfeit is not on de-
 posit with the Central Union Trnst
 company of New York. Robert
 Edgren, named in the contract as
 the "soIe arbiter." said here to-
 night.
 '.The contract provides the for
 felt shall he deposited with the
 bank or with the promoters. Ed-
 grcn said. ''Tex Rickard, promoter
 wired me today Dempsey's money
 was posted, and I have no reason
 to doubt his statement"
 Edgren said he did not consider
 tho situation one that called for
 action by him as nrbiter.
 New York, January 2O.--After con ference here late this afternoon be- tween Tex Rickard and William A Brady, the former announced that he had offered to taks over Brady's inter- est and bond in the proposed Dempsey Carpentier bout.
 that Brady refused to accept the offer until he had consulted with Charles B Cochrane, the third joint promoter in the project, who is at present in Lon- don.
 Brady agreed, however, to communi- cate with Cochrane by cable and ascer- tain whether the latter desired to con tinue in the project with Rickard Or withdraw with Brady should he de- eide to accept Richards offer. The conference lasted more than an hour ,xzI wrrA Ds-Ir 1.PA l. that his offer was the only concrete result of the discussion.
 According to Rickard, the interests of Cochrane in this country were in charge of Brady, who holds a power of attorney for Cochrane, but there was no direct evidence that the latter de- sired to abandon his share in the match.
 CONFERENCE HELD
 This conference was the outstanding feature of another day of controversy over whether the match for the heavy weight championship of the world be- tween Jack Dempsey and Georges Car pentier should or could be cancelled owing to alleged non-fulfillment of contractual clauses. Much of the dis cussion appeared to hinge upon the mystery of the missing bond, as a wag facetiously acclaimed Dempsey's surety papers.
 According to Rickard, Kearns and others, such bond for $50,000 was made out by the champion and his manager, but it's whereabouts at this time is shrouded with mystery. off, cials of the Central Union Trust com pany of this city, stated emphatically that the bond was not in their possess sion, as called for by the contract en- tered into on November 5, 1920. DEMPSEY'S BOND MISSING
 Kearns telegraphed to a local repre- sentative here to break into his per. sonal safe deposit box in order to as- certain if the bond had been placed there by mistake, but the result of this search had not been announced late today. The bonds of the three pro. motors and the money put up in France by Carpenter have been ac- counted for apparently, and only Dempsey's forfeit is missing.
 Another angle is whether any .ech- nical or legal oversight in carrying out the terms of the contract to date takes precedence over the final rulings on the subject by Robert Edgren, Eamed in the contract as arbiter of all disputes. The final clause of the 15- page contract signed by the promoters and pugilists on November 5, reads as follows:
 The parties hereto agree that Rob- ert Edgren shall be the sole and final arbiter of all questions relating to any of the covenants and conditions of this agreement. and agree to be irreyoca- ply bound by the decision of the said Robert Edgren."
 Attorneys for the pugilists exp-essad the opinion that under this clause each and every one of the promoters would be obliged to discharge their obliga- tions assumed in the contract, ven though certain clauses had been .cch-