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IIGreb Wants toMeet DempseyPittsburg Promoters Offer $50,000for the BoutHarry Greb, the Pittsburg heavyweight, who steps into the ring at , | Mechanics’ building Tuesday night to battle with Captain Bob Roper at the Faneuit A. C., realizes that the fight has greater significance than the mere dollars that will be!$10,000 JOB)his end of the gate receipts. Victory means another niche nearer a match with Dempsey, while defeat sends him along the ham and egg route, fighting mediocre fights and getting purses that, go with such battles.TO MAKE IT SHORTSo the dancin*, prancing, speedy, clever heavyweight who ho closely resembles Johnny Dundee In action, will stop In with th# determination to win and as quickly as possible. Thus far he has got more than a nodding acquaint-'inccKhip with a match with the champion, for right down in hi« own home j town they have offered Jack Dempsey $fiO,000 for his end of a purse to meet Greb in a 10-round bout.It was real money that was offered Dempsey. Greb knows it, and he isn’t going to clown himself out of his first speaking acquaintanceship with a match with the champion. He knows that against Roper he has to use everything to got the award.Roper, on the other hand, has been doing some deep thinking since Bill Brennan eliminated the popular dope that Dempsey was a **rnan killer.” Hob is in the shape of his life, never boxed better, and will climb into action ready to tight with everything in his book toThere is every prospect of a brilliant flght. The men have battled twice before. They were hard, fast and furious mixers, and each claims victory, for the bouts were no-decision affairs.Made Favorite^H^fThe \rl«e birds who make the prices have chalked up Greb as a 10 to 8 favorite. No doubt they have set the price on the wonderful record of CJreb. but these knowing ones got grabbed good and plenty on Roper*s flght with Rob Martin when they made Martin a 10 to 2 favorite, while th© result showed that Roper should have been the odds onLook over the dope sheet and you will find that Mr. Greb Is a classy person as a tighter. He has licked them all, and keeps doing It with groat regularity. Mike O'Dowd, Mike Gibbons, Jeff Smith. George Chip and Buck Krouse were the bosses in the middleweight division when Greb came along. He bowled them over one by one.Then he got too heavy for the middleweight class, and although only about 168 pounds, he has licked every heavy that he has battled with. Battling l.evinsky, Jack Dillon, Jim Coffey, Willie Mehan, Tom Gibbons and Jack Duffey know too well the gaff that Greb hands out.When Bob Martin best Bandsman Rice the Faneuil A. C. matchmaker offered him a chance t‘ flght Greb. Martin's manager would have none lt;f it. “Too tough.” was his reply. That’s the story that moat managers of heavyweights hand out when Gieb’s name is mentioned. Not so with Roper, for the latter Is confident that he can beat Greb.“When I boxed Greb at Pittsburg and later at Denver I was ail inexperienced kid,” declares Roper. “Yrt in both tights I put him down for the count. I know that I have made a bl* improvement since I have been coachtd by Jack Blackburn, and I am confident that Mr. Greb Is going to get a thrasl ing.Roper is a great favorite hero. He has been training at the Scenic Temple gymnasium, and every day 2)0 to 300fans have been in attendance when Bob works out with Blackburn or some of the local fighters. He is keenly intelligent, meet* people with an ea*y manner, and bu made a host of frifnda.IS REFUSE DSACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. 18.—Because of what he termed a movement to oust him from th* presidency of the Pacific Coast league. Wr. H. 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