Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-09-26
j. S..PROMOTERS
WANT new CHAMP
TO APPEAR HERE
Senegalese Boxer Offered
Terms to Fight Wills
=; Or Greb.

aNt New York, Sept. 26.-Battling Six
iiitihlas been offered terms for a conte.u
;ifither with Harry Wills, negro heavy,
iItNeight, or Harry Greb Of Pittsburgh,
holder. Thomas +. O'Rourke, match
maker Of the Republic Athletic club,
raid Monday night in confirming AS
5Eociated Press dispatches OF a lpropo-
ihFftlon mad to the, conqueror OF
Georges Carpenter. N
II oRourke, however, said that his
jsofer was for s25. 900 or privilege OF
,tss,,2b per cent Of the gate receipts instead
Ss'HSof the cabled figure Of 100000.
..yt ORourke tonight had received No
direct answer from Skis manager.
ATntil he does he declines to indicate
What attitude he wpuld take toward
sNthe ~Senegalese bover's demand. for Il.
HOO, 900 francs, approximately $4,000
lat the current rate of exchange, for a
..t.contest with Willis this month,
Rickard Angling.
4 Tex Richard added his name to the
H1tst OFF, promoters angling to match
aAiki with American opponents Monday
SAfter receiving a cablegram from the
.Henegalese boxer'e manager express
Hans eagerness to tight here, especially
Nngainst light heavyweights. The
l~iHnessage, however, contlicted with the
:idate mentioned in reply to o'Rourke's
@oner BY expressing readiness to come
to this country after Jan. /.
u Richard ecabled an answer declaring
no was ready to match Sikh will,
ttGreb. Gene Tunney, former light
j heavyweight tftle-holder. or Ton, Glib
lions, but made no definite proposition.
johnson Makes Offer.
N New York, Sept. '2e.-Jaek
johnson: one time heavyweight
III champion of the world, told that
III section of the world that hap
III. pened to be gathered In New
York county court house Monday
that he was sending a challenge
TO Sikh, tho conqueror OF. Georges
q, Carpenter.
>I Summoned to count over a debt Of
$4,000 he owed Barney Gerard, the
Atrical producer, for seven years
johnson was asked. by Joseph" Levine,
:hGerard's counsel, why he didn't pay
$4,000 on account
'"You fellows ought to wait until J
tackle that ma Sikh he said. HE
ilooks like Just the, man I want te
+, Nght, ana when I get through, I'll
have money enough to pay you
Then he announced ne had sent a
challenge Monday. =
Wants Million Francs.
VI Paris, Sept. 26.-one million franc.
10 what Battling Sikh, conqueror o.
Georges Carpenter, asks to SO t.
America to fight Harry Wills at thu
Polo Grounds on Oct. rs. Manage,
Hellers cabled Tom O'Rourke, Amer
,tcan fight promoter Monday evening IL
response to an offer of $4,000.
II Hellers said he considered
sD'Rourke's offer totally Inadequate
He added that he had. received a.,
Ndffer IL a larger sum for Sikh to NEE
the winner of the Joe Beckett-Franl
Moran fight in England On "boxint
day" the day after Christmas. Beckett
R1nd Moran will fight on Oct. IL. TIL
manager: Of the Se%negalese, said he dit
not desire to go to HI United State
unless the financial inducement mad
il worth while. "' ="
Sikh himself at frst was disinclinet
to make the trip to the United State
but later said he would do so II Hell
iers' terms were accepted. It is tn
opinion of Hellers that it would be
, good thing for Sikh to meet Wills i'm