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between ..lack Dempsey, heavy-! 0f •weight, is not. beyond the realm ofjf?l possibility. ! ^Battle Between Two Meters Bins Being Discussed By Famous 1‘remoter.i hlt;. Hii* •. \cCertain inducements, it was learn-. jv ed today, have been ofTcren both i* men. Each, while not yet acuuiesc- i ing. has agreed to give the matter serious consideration, and there are I reasons to believe the fight win be. staged. It would be for eight' , rounds, in New Jersey. ;A world famous promoter is be-! hind the scenes pulling the wires.; [M But if it comes off it is a certainty i V* that the fighters will have to iake! a guarantee that precludes any pos-! sibility of high finance instead of S. a battle.A bout between these two masters of the ring would be a scrapfrom the standpoint of the fan?.It would be absolutely fair. IFg, would insure action. wTong Out ol’ Action. JcGibbons nas been out of action-\\ since the war started. The nearest cli he has come to a real battle recent-.]y was before the death of I/?* M Darcy, when strenuous efforts were.ni made by Eddie Kane, his manager,;fc to pit him against the Australian ei champion, but without avail.t He to was in perfect condition then and. if his manner of living suggests rhat-lc he probably is in the best of trimnow. He weighed 7hen somewhere le near 160 pounds. Recently he has of been a hand-to-hand tight instruct- sy or for the army and has had won- w. derful success, so much, in fact, 0;that he probably will be given vian army corn in'Iks ion. He weighs m now about 17 ft pound?.Dempsey weighs much more than at Gibbons and ha? bemi fighting fre- er quently. il:
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Waterloo Evening Courier
Waterloo, Iowa, US
Sat, Dec 21, 1918
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