New Britain herald., 1921-07-07
LAUNCH CAMPAIGN
 TO PREVENT BOXING
New Jersey Reiormers Circulate Petition Against Popular Sport

New York, July 7.-Inasmuch aa Jack Dempsey did not appear in Jer- sey City yesterday to brave arrest for assault and battery on Georges Car
 pentier, the International Reform bureau launched it's campaign to stop
 all future fights in New Jersey, to de-
 mand the impeachment of Gov. Ed
 wards and bring about an arrest of
 some one who will be the principal
 in the test case the bureau seeks.
 First of all, Wilbur F. Crafts and
 Robert Watson. respectively superin-
 tendent and president of the bureau, went to Ocean Grove to make their first appeals for funds and signatures
 to petition that will be handed tho Legislature next winter. It is the
 bureaus plan to have at least 100,-
 900 names of adult citizens on tho
 petition which will be an anti-Ed-
 wards and anti-prize fighting instru-
 ment
 sN Word comes from Atlantic City that
 Warren H. Keates. lessee of the two
 houses that comprise Dempsey'a
 training quarters, has begun legal ac-
 tion for s1O.0O0 rental charges.
 Keatc7' action ia against George Ulizio
 with whom Dempsey and Jack
 Kearns. his manager, negotiated.
 At the same time it developed that 29A Carrie Barrett, the housekeeper ~in the'training quarters and to whom the champion constantly was quoted
 as referring as mother and dear
 mother Barrett was reimbursed to
 the extent of $1O0 for her two months
 of mothering the champion. She ia
 Keata's sister.
 Want to Pinch Someone.
 MT. Crafts and his attorney, Her. bert Clark Gilson, are considering the advisability of causing the arrest of someone who was at the fight last Saturday and who will volunteer to be prisoner for the sake of the test case the Bureau longs for. It may be that such man will be found among
 the clergy of Jersey City, but the Bu-
 reau and MT. Gilson are steering clear of anything that a court might con-
 strue as moral turpitude. In other words, it is not desirable that the
 court be compelled to find legal fault with the prisoners status nor that the prisoner be cast forth as not bona nde.
 MT Gilson said that there ia 1ittlo chance of immediate arrest of any of the higher officials of the state who
 witnessed the fight. The entire pro-
 ceedings, he says, will establish Q
 precedent, and it ia just as well not
 to make undue and unwise haste.
 We shall act just the moment we are sure the road is clear" he said. "We do not lack for sources of sound advice and experience. When we move it will be with force and re- suit"
 s.Seriously,'' broke in MT. Crafts. 'the case of Dempsey himself ia merely incidental. If we had him here we would seek to have him ar rested He isn't here, but hiding or speeding west one of the two. We aim at larger game. Any arrest will be but a move toward the accomplish ment of our ultimate desire. We want to stop degrading, -demoralizing and utterly brutal scenes such as that which occurred on Boyle's Thirty Acres last Saturday. We want to see the law upheld Gov. Edwards will 1 come to understand that we are not to be rendered impotent by few epithets hurled at us."
 Litigation Is Started. The Atlantic City litigation was be- gun in the Circuit Court Edison Hedges, representing Keates, declared that Ulizio guaranteed payment ot the rent, but that while it ia altogether likely that Ulizio received the money from Dempsey he has not yet turned | it over to Keates. One of the houses Keates says, was occupied by Demp, sey, Teddy Hayes, his trainer, and z few others The second house, ac cording to the complaint, was the ref uge for the "sparring partners ant numerous hangers on." Keates say that Kearns told him that Dempse! was in the house as Ulizio's guest Therefore Keates looks to Ulizio fo the rent.
 Mother Barrett says that whel Dempsey and Kearns departed fol
 Jersey City the latter handed her ; check.
 Here ia surprise for you,' sh' uuotes Kearns as saying. Don't lool at it until we have gone" Mrs Barrett acknowledges that he | surprise was in the nature of shock The check was for the sum of s1O0- her pay for looking after the cham pion and his aids while they occupie' | the Airport cottages.