BOXING.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1923, Page 3

BOXING.

tUSTKAI.IAX AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DEM I’SEY-GIBBOXS EIGHT. MAY NOT TAKE PLACE. (Received this day at 10. Jo a.m.) NEW YORK. June 27. According to a message from Sheika, Montaiuo. tthe limmeial difficulties "Inch have | reripitaled one crisis after another, rai-e a doubt as to whether the Dempsey-Gibbotts light will oit-tir on the -Itli. of July. Foil. iwing the Ldlnre of th.c original promoter' to finnm-e the I, out a now management took the diteetion i,f affairs, but it’s efforts were no more successful. Hemji-

se.v "as paid the first hundred thousand dollars satisfactorily, but a second and similar instalment had to he hotrowed, and tin* raising of the third instalment is proving a troublesome task. 1- ull hermore the lenders of the second hundred thousand are clamouring for a guarantee, while file contractors "bo are building the stadium sire threatening attachments unless they are pa id.

A canvas of the surrounding country slows tluit amazingly few tickets have h.-eu sold and tiie pre-cut situation lias all tin* earmark:- of a gigantic fiasco. Meanwhile fault Demp-ey giid Gilliams continue training.

The lemur may In I - - i til v he persuaded to enter the ring without payment of the last guaranteed hundred thousand dollars, trusting to the gate n-.'-eipi s to supply t he Mi-lieit .

Gibbons declared licit he was ready to enter the ring without getting a penny, as tin* championship L hi- aim, not monem

I’opufar opinion -coins i-i be tint ns I)eiup -ev received two hundred thousand dollars, ho cannot back out. even if no m.o'n.* is ?unlienm rng or thi* gate slender.

For Coughs arid Odds, never fails. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. Recommended bv the medical profession.—WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.