New Britain herald., 1925-09-30
DEMPSEY HNALLYAGREES
 OMEETDUSKY CHALLENGER
Both Fighters Sign Articles After Long Discussion Scene is Enacted in Country Doctors Office Argument Over Referee Almost Upsets Conference Match Will Be Staged in Michigan City.

South Bend, Ind. Sept. 30 lPA- 1 In country doctors office above l the corner drug store. in the little city of Niles, Michigan, new chap ter in glove fighting was written last night when Jack Dempsey signed articles to defend the worlds heavy weight championship against Harry Wills. negro challenger in Michigan City. Ind, tn September. 1926.
 The scene, rcpleto with all the drama of motion picture ended Wills four year chase for cham pionship meeting with Dempsey. The signature came after confer- ence of more than Is hours, stretched over two days and only after the question of a referee had threatened to wreck the negotia- lions.
 Ii was finally agreed that if Paddy Mullins manager of Wills and Dempsey, could not come 10 tern% over the selection of the third man in the ring sixty days In advance of the contest, Promoter Floyd I'itz- simmons. with two members of the financial syndicate backing him would name the referee.
 Just as dusk was beginning to settle over the countryside Dempsey Wills, Manager Mullins and his ad wiser, Promoter Iitzsimmons and others, motored from here, eleven miles north just over the state line, to Niles, for the signing. The reason for inc Invasion of Niles was because boxing is recognized as a loga lized sport in Michigan, and the promoters wanted to avoid all tech ncalities in the contract that might possibly come later.
 Fitzsimmons announced that sS0o,oO0 had been posted as for teits with the First National Trust 1 Company bank here. This amount represents $2Oo,00o by the pro- moters. $50,O00 by Wills and s50,- GOO by Dempsey. Both Dempsey and Wills received $25,O00 as train ing expenses, according to Titmim- mons.
 Dempsey, who missed two trains yesterday, so he could remain and close the match, left early today for Cleveland, whera he appears in an exhibition bout tonight. Wills and Mullins with Lew Raymond, a New York boxing promoter, and Babe Cullens, a promoter of Newark, left TOT Chicago today and thence for New York, Cullen and Raymond served as advisers to Mullins in the hnal negotiations for the match.
 The signing took place in the ofrice of pr. Fred N. Bonine. an oculist, staunch supporter of box Ing and personal friend of Demp- sey and Fitzsimmons. It required only a few minutes, then the boxers started back to South Bend. The match. according to plans. | will be staged in the Blue Sky arena owned by Fitzsimmons, at Nricbisan City It has seating capacity of about 30,OOo, but will be increased 10 meet demands. It has been tbe scene Of numerous boxing contests. notably the Gibbons Carpenter bout two years ago,
 Neither Dempsey nor Wills will receive a guarantee. They will ooS on percentage, but their re- spective percentages will not be re- vealad' Mullins declined to say what Wills share would be. but asserted that 1t was the best offer ever made 10 wills for Dempsey match and that he was entirely satisfied.
 A note of surprise and disappolnt- ment at the signing was expressed in New York by Promoter Tex Rickard, who has been under the impression that he would eventually