Sport: Dempsey

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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."