The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-28
MASSACRE DUE
TO BE ST AGED
BY RICHARD IN
JERSEY ARENA
Say Bout IS On and
Everything SET for lack and
less to Repeat Toledo
TabIeaH June 80.
BY THOMAS 4. CUHIMIsKEY.

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BY THOMAS Il. CUNIAaISKEY.
Anew YORK. Jan. 27.-Jess Wi.
IN lard win be assassinated BY
- Jack Dempsey On June Sc,
1928. at Boyless Thirty Acres, Jersey
City.
Authoritative information to this
effect has been obtained, support
ing the statement made by Unis
versaI Service early In the week
that they would fight late III June
or July 4.
Tex Rickard. promoter OF the
Willard Dempsey massacre at Toledo.
and the Carpenter Dempsey bout
at Boyle's Thirty Acres, win stage
It. Quite naturally He owns the
80 900 capacity bowl
kinds of denials, but the bout Il
strictly on.
AGREED ON TERMS.
In conversation with willard. the
writer was told that Jack Kearns.
manager Of Dempsey. had promised
him return bout after 3 confer
ence iii the Hotel Alexandria, Los
Angeles, some weeks ago.
1t now appears that willard,
Rickard and Kearns agreed on the
terms before Jess and the two
Jacks came East.
Several other promoters will make
sundry million dollar offers for the
champions services, and Kearna
win go through the farce Of con
siderings' them for some time. #
| will an aid In the ba11yIoo which
win start when Rickard finally
decides to make the definite an
nouncement.
/ Universal Service also made the
/ statement in connection with the
Willard announcement that Harry
Wills. the negro challenger. will be
taken on by Dempsey later in the
summer, probably Labor Day. ~
is quite probable that this bout win
also be conducted by Rickard at
the same place.
Though the New York and New
Jersey boxing commissions are at
present in working agreement, the
New Jersey officials are said to
have sanctioned the willard bout
even though Chairman MuIdoon OF
the New York body has refused
/ to allow it. declaring Willard too
old and too fat. !"
JERSEY TO GET BOUT.
Should Chairman Muldoon see fit
to suspend Dempsey as far q
New York is concerned for fight
ing Willard, the only logical place
for the Wills fight would be the
big Jersey City arena.
1 It is logical also, that with his
big bowl idle, Richard would con-
slider 1t the place for both fights
~
i going to the expense of renting
and fixing up the big Yankee
1stadium, home of the American
League champions.
A ''feeler" as to how the fight
fans considered Willard occurred
when he attended the Bill Brennan
| Floyd Johnson fight in Madison
Square Garden. He got a big re-
lception.
i 1t seems, verify, that the fans
want to see that massacre at
Toledo repeated. OF course, there
lis a possibility, too, that some Of
them concede Willard a chance.
1t is a good bet. anyhow that the
arena will be filled.
Big Jess has been getting in trim
for months. and has succeeded in
4 taking off much of his paunch.
| al pa CSOAb1 AAO ~ OeS4Ay SohAAA6 AA6AAb
exercise in the Garden gym. He is
/ obsessed with the desire Of fight
ing Dempsey.
He licked me at Toledo Jess
win say, ''but know can lick
him now"
/ Before long Jess will go up In
the hills somewhere, and under
take the most strenuous training
of his career. Three husky spar
ring partners will help him. He
will do lots of road work-some-
thing he neglected at Toledo.
/ Jess figures he can get down
to the 23S pounds he made for
Jack Johnson when he won the
championship at Havana.
TO GIVE EXHIBITIONS.
After getting in tip-top condi-
tomas he is certain he can
Willard will aid in the ballyhoo
by giving public boxing exhibitions
throughout the East. There win
be no public test bout" with any
! fighter.
/ Dempsey is likely to train ..
Long Branch, N. j., or Leiper-
Vile, Pa.
He asked Kearns the other day
If the next fight would be on q
percentage basis eyes," he said
"unless we can get big guaran-
| tee'
The Carpentier-Demps bout
cleared Richard over a million, and
Dempsey and Kearns split 100000
only. The two Jacks have never
forgiven themselves for being such
fsaps.
So, with considerable assurance
Of a full house for the Willard
| massacre, percentage 1t is likely to
be.
I'm afraid to talk, notwithstand
ing, you may take 1t as certainty
that neither Dempsey nor Kearns
fear Wills. But willard looks the
easiest. And why not such easy
douRh2 And then Wills.R