New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-10
Atlantic CITY
ans to Bid
For Big Fights
Show Great Interest i'm Pro
posed Dempsey-Wi Hard,
experimentation Bouts
Special Dispatch to The Tribune

ATLANTIC CITY. July s.-shore
light fans, who number pretty nearly
everybody in Atlantic City just now,
are deeply interested in the persiste Mt
reports that the proposed Dempsey
| Willard battle and the match between
Georges Carpenter and TEN Gibbons
eventually will come to this section CT
the coast. Despite stories from New
York that other places are under con-
stderation for these two highly irapor-
tant hstic classics, the feeling here is
that circum stances are working to
bring the fights here.
Last night B. George Ulizio, mana
glng director of the National Stadium
Inc, which has the Airport as a site
tor monster bowl returned to Allan
tic City from New York and announced
with apparent sincerity that he had
secured the Carpenter Gibbons fight
TOR Labor Day and the Dempsey Will
lard match for Celumbu Day, October
x. Uiizio based his assertion on the
statement that he had been in confer
ence with Carpenter and Deschamps in
New York and that he had received q
Wire from Eddie Kane, manager of Glib
bons, stating that Kane and his fighter
were ready to make the Atlantic City
, match.
Another potent factor in the securing
OF the proposed fights is the persistent
| report to the effect that Mayor Edward
l.. bader, probably the closest personal
TREND of champion Jack Dempsey, has
been asked by Dempsey to act as his
manager. Although Mayor Bader re-
fuses to admit the report to be true or
to discuss the matter, it is known that
ne is tremendously proud Of the offer
and that he is considering the matter
from every viewpoint, including his po-
litical future. Should he take Up the
offer of Dempsey it is assured that he
would do everything possible to bring
the fight between the champion and
Jess Willard to Atlantic City.
The talk of holding the Dempsey
Willard match on Columbus Day fits
in exactly with the statements from
the Willard camp to the effect that the
former ring champion insists on having
at least three months for hard con-
ditioning and training before he again
enters the ring.
There is still bit of uncertainty in
Atlantic City over the probable stand
to be taken by the wealthy beach front
hotel men toward battles of national
sporting Importance which would bring
thousands of fight fans to the resort.
The smaller hotel owners and managers
are a unit in favor of it,
Should the beach front men and the
side avenue hotel keepers agree in ia
vor of the fights being held here there
would be no trouble in raising any
amount of money, it is said, for the
purses to be awarded or for buying and
moving the Jersey City bowl used in
the empseyCarpentier fight. Under
the same circumstances Promoter
Ulizio would have both the proper
financial backing and the expert fnan-
cial advice that would allow him to work
Independently OF Tex Richard or any
other big promoter and to keep the
profits of the contests here in town.
There is surprising amount of in
terest both locally and in the hotel
coterie in the possibility of the big
battles coming to the resort. There is
a general impression abroad that the
standing of Atlantic City would do
much to make such contests highly
popular with a great public which has
not before been interested in tistic
battles and that there would be no
trouble in securing capacity crowds for
either of the proposed contests.