San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-30
F|TzS|MMONS
IS OUT AS
PROMOTER
Hired Man" Unable to
Meet Champs Financial
Guarantees.
By WARREN w. BROWN
Universal Service staff Correspondent.

. By WARREN w. BROWN
rnsversai Service staff Correspondent.
7 CHICAGO, Nov. 30.-Definite
steps to take the proposed Dempsey
+ Wills worlds championship fight out
of the joke class, in which it was
placed at the time Floyd Fitzsimmons,
; the hired man. was announced as
the promoter, are now under way.
The plans call for a complete re-
vision of agreements previously enter
= ed into by all parties concerned, and
for Fitzsinlmons to run, not walk.
to the nearest exit.
~ The unloading of Fitz either has
taken place already. or will within
The week, the writer learned today.
1t is understood that the only rea-
son Fitz hasn't been given the air
before this, was Dempsey's insistence
that FLOYD be taken care of. Just
how to take care of him. is, or has
been. one of the most intricate OF
many intricate problems involved in
. the promotion of the fight.
MAYBE THREE CHEERS.
Whether Fitz will be given cash
settlement, three cheers. or possibly
q ticket 10 the fight. if the fight takes
place, is a matter for the big dough-
men. Adam Wiesberg and George
Farabaugh. of South Bend, to deter
mine. These two are now in New
FORK. attempting TO get the signatures
of Wills, and his manager, Paddy
Mullins, to a contract with going
instead of a gone concern.
The original contract between
Dempsey and Fitzsimmons, which
called for Fitz to produce $1,000, 900
in installments, between the date OF
the signing, which was September %
of this year, and the date Of the fight,
which was more or less indefinite.
was broken when Fitz failed to make
good the initial payment of S125,OO0
and later one of another fancy sum.
Fitzsimmons difficulties then, as
now, was finding something TO use
for money. He is now to be given
the added difficulty of finding some
thing to use for Dempsey and Wills.
Mullins. according TO popular re-
port. took a note from EitZsimmons
for $4,000. payable December l. but
that kind of manager.
DEMPSEY NEXT.
If Messrs. Weisberg ard Farabaugh
are successful in their quest for the
Mullins and Willis signatures to 4
new contract, the next step will be to
confer with Dempsey, who has agreed
to the new deal all around.
The new contract which will be Of
fered Dempsey will call for the 81
600. 900. and all of the money will be
placed in escrow before the date of the
tight.
The million. according 10 well
Z founded reports. will be il money.
As matters stand now, the Demp-
sey-Wills fight is as much up IN the
air as If there never had been a con-
ference at Niles, Mich, where the ia
nous Fitzsimmons scrap of paper
was signed.
II the new deal is successful. and
the new contracts with the principals
are signed. the fight will be promoted
along buSiness lines. But, even then.
there remains much to be done in the
way Of finding a date and a site.
NO PROMOTING SKILL.
Neither weisberg nor Fsrabaugh
has any practical knowledge Of the
: working methods of fight promotion.
Ii will be necessary for them to round
up someone who has. and the names
5 Of everyone. from Tex Richard in New
York, through Jim Mullen in Chicago,
TO Jack Doyle and Jim Coffroth on the
Pacific coast, have been placed in nom
ination.
A site "near Chicago is still being
sought. and viii be, for some time.
Detroit. and Windsor, Canada. also
have been mentioned. New York is
out. because Dempsey positively re-
fuses 10 appear in the ring in that
city any more.
So, IL caS be seen. the whole situa-
ton Is far from in hand"
Raw ]. Cannon. the Milwaukee at
torney who was called into the affair
by Dempsey as a legal adviser, was in
Chicago today. but said he had no
statement to make on the matter,
other than that the report from the
Pacific coast. accusing bin of being
.in" with Jack Kearns, for the pur-
pose Of crossing" Dempsey, was quite
untrue.
FLOP FROM START.
anyone who knows me and the
size of my law practice in Milwaukee
viii know that / don't have TO mon
key around with thing of this kind, .
Cannon said.
Il have been a friend of Dempsey
for many years, and still am. When
(. he asked my advice, gave it to him.
If be asks il again. i will give il 10
him. IL he doesn't follow ii, that's
something else again.
Il don't think it is necessary for
me 20 tell you. or anyone else who
investigates this thing very thorough
j., that the Dcmpsey-Wills fight. as
outlined in that conference az Niles,
was an impossibility. and ] don't
wonder that il created laugh, ratb-
sr than any interest
Fitzsimmons. the ~hired man. who
came into the affair with the idea
that a Dempsey-Wills fight would
make some money. goes out Of II with
the same idea. ii viii make some
money. II il l. ever staged. But not
fef Floyd fitEsimmons.