The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-01-14
By wESTBROOK PEGLER (Leased Wire to The Axe-Herald

:, NEW YORK, Jan. 13.-In the win tier of 1920, Jack Dempsey flopped and floundered around the Garden ring in a bout with large Bill Bren- nan, who tore his left ear almost apart from his head and gave him quite slamming for seven rounds Dempsey stopped Brennan in the twelfth with hard pokes that sank Into Sweet Williams middle clear up to the wrists.
 z This fight made it appear that Dempsey after all was not invincible and so Georges Carpenter was deemed to have mild outside chance to whip him when Tex Rickard under took the promotion of the worlds first million-dollar fight spectacle at Jersey City in the summer of Fl. 2 Thereafter, Dempsey seemed unde. < featable and it was useless to sug- ggest any fights for him. The conse- purses and had to live on the interest of his past earnings and the income from his vaudeville act.
 In the summer of 1923, Dempsey fought Tom Gibbons at Shelby. Gib- sbons went 15 rounds with Jack, being the first one to do this in several years, and the customers, as they rat tied. over the pairie in the coaches and Pullmans and boxcars. or cling ing to the brakerods, wondered what had come over Dempsey. Certainly a fellow who couldn't stop such little smarf4 as Tom Gibbons wasn't invinci- bls.
 "A little more than two months later Dempsey met Luis Angel Firpo at 1-I- AkN sgreatest struggle that ever was fought between two giants, laid the Argentina down cold. The Dempsey who did that. could have knocked i, Tom Gibbons from Shelby, Mont, to the Canadian line with a back hand pAiap., But if Dempsey had done that to STom Gibbons at Shelby, there woula have been less interest in the chances of Luis Angel Firpo. and the purse probably would not have Ssrun anywhere near $1,000,000, as it ' did. /
 r Thursday afternoon, Eddie Kane manager of Gibbons, had a long talk with Tex Rickard, the man who pro- notes all the really big fights. He came out announcing that he had ac- cepted a proposition from Rickard for a fight between Gibbons and Dempsey in New York some time ir June. Gibbons got nothing for the shelby fight and Dempsey got more than s2a0,000 In the return match :. or a guaranteed sum. Dempsey usual ly takes a guaranteed minimum when he worke for Rickard with the op- tfon of taking a percentage, if per centage would run above the guar A,aptee.
 S-.4After Dempsey knocks out Gibboni about the fifth round of the fight 1T foh for another duel late in the summer.
 SF.-PAUL. Minn., Jan. 13.-'It's the pest news I've heard for a long time, declared Tommy Gibbons, St: Pau heavyweight boxer. when informed that a. return match had been ar ranged between himself and Cham pion Jack Dempsey
 -It means that I am going to be tho next heavyweight champion of tho world, which Is the acme of my am a5ition." Tommy continued.
 4 Ever since my. fight with tho Z champion at Shelby, Mont- l have , tried hard to get return match wltf Jack, for I honestly believe I learned yoGre about him than he did about me. feel sure that I can defeat tho .schampion and this will be my con finual thought until time TOT me te climb into the ring.
 l Gibbons is in fairly good condition now, he said, and as soon as he Is or lsficiaily notified by Eddie Kane. hi! < manager, that the Dempsey match i' on. he intends to get down to lgh' work for the bout. Unless there arc restrictions in his Dempsey contract fibb6ns said he plans to engage IT several fight before meeting tht champion.
 MANI, Fla, Jan. 13.-"I am glae 2 @a fight 50 soon," said Jack Dempsey when informed of arrangements tol < f5out with Tommy Gibbons.
 ~I have no particular preference al "A where I am going to fight, but ,vai,fd chose New York. have hac ne bad experience in small town and don't care to repeat 1t. It doe; neitl1er me nor others good to nearly bankrupt a city and a whole state All these details, however, are 4et' to Jack Kearns.
 ..' "Regardless of where 1t IS, I'll Dc there with my fists"
 The Champion Is here en1oylns
 himself, doing road work every morn
 cbg and driving each afternoon. Ht
 ga devotee of the dog races anc
 ousical comedy shows divert him IT
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