Dempsey

Last week, in Fort Worth, Tex., the ponderous right hand of World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey described a motion that sportsmen had begun to believe it might never describe again. After hours spent thrashing the harvest in advance, Champion Dempsey reached for a pen and signed an agreement to fight another fight. A second dotted line was signed by Promoter Tex Rickard of Manhattan. No place, no opponent was named, but Dempsey committed himself to encounter either of the two logical challengers--Gene Tunney or Harry Wills--and Rickard indicated that either his New Madison Square Garden or some New Jersey arena would be the site. The date: "in September." Dempsey's share: $450,000 (reported). Mr. Dempsey departed to train at Hendersonville, N. C., wistfully announcing that he would probably retire as champion after this next bout; that he would then like to "get into some successful business."