JACK DEMPSEY’S DEMANDS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 August 1924, Page 4

JACK DEMPSEY’S DEMANDS.

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t.liioto Tex liiekard: "These lighters iii::| their niaincJei's luive gone insane. Kvcrv new (!;lv they ;id<l It).COO dnllar.s t.: what they think they ought lo get for their next light. It is "citing so now Hint tlii -e lellows who Used io talk i'.i ID lent | ieees hilYre ihf.v reaeked piosperity, ttltd who lit ter Milked in iho'.'sands, now talk in hundicd thousands, am! very shortly will he tltse: wising in millions."

On this question Frank G. Menlo writes in the "Kt d ree" : dark Kearns hluoely demands 77/Q.OOil dollars lot' .link Demi sey’s a] | i*::i attre ill front of his next Id.email, this amount of money and the (old-bluo led fashion in which Kent ns si'caks the figure hit- imensed the .sjorting in nl tit tide. The lad p.cloi ha, i e:ne to the eoiii lusi- ii that the ttitle has t riived vvl.-eli the | rmes:; of paving fabulous sums of money to pugs s!u illd i ease. Aml il w ill ( ease. i: was Tex I’iekard vv!: * icaDy atariid the Ia -! i i ii of laying pigs more money for a few minutes work than the I'n .blent the I'nited Kte.tos gathers tinto liitn-. lf ihfongli lour years of , oilslant serviie. An ! I'eeufiarl.v ,-p Ugh. it iv lii hard who is leader in the thought thill the | eak was ici'iied vvdieli D.'in. I': . eivet! .'d1.1.0 (I dollars for haliling Kirpo. and that the revision now must he downward. Thc'V is no letter ill,:-1 •at iun of Kia!;aril’s a Hit tale I liau i ottb.l I e gained from observe.!!: e of the fact that lie has made no definite olfr lo Hem; see or l > tiny other ihain: ion for listi.- servo as this summer, liiekard. ome the

pursuer of li-ti' tn'enl. is now sitting idly by. waiting for l!:c chtitnpions to cnie p: hint and mention the aumtini lm w hich they vv i!l liglil.

•| am all thnmgli laying hi;; tnaitey to i Itaui! iouship fighters." says f?i-.-l-:-titd. "It's to, l-ig a gamble entirely, i don't think the public is so keen as i' used to he ahoilt expending huge Mims of money fo see chum] ions work, and it ti. ■ pi !i ■ won't pay.

the ] romotvrs can't pay. "1 have been gambling ever sime 1 got into the light game. I always gna Ii til it-ciks i»i« »i*«- t Sis) ia smv ot!u*r

| minuter was guaranteeing, and most of the lime the iutie t-tit liystandel's insisted that I was guarenti eiug figure', that would ruin me. I have not haett ruined yet. Dill I am not .such it .'no as to think Hint 1 can mi et the pre-cut day demands of champions ami (ontiuue to gel away with it through the tc't ef niv life."