Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 3, 1923, Page 2

PAGE TWO. FINES ASSESSED DEMPSEY AND KEARNG AGREE TO FOR SPRINGING GAMBLEFOR THE LAST $100, 00 FOURTH IN GHTY Premature Celebrations} Cause Arraignment (Continued from Page One.) dents asked Stanton point blank if nis ‘Statement meant that the fight was off, far as I am concerned it’s off,” the banker replied. Kearns, his face flushed with anger turned on His heel and said. “That's good enough for me: oft, The champion's manager it's immed+ of Nine Here Fi used before the Fourth! ot ro very expensive as ir n of the police blot- tér 8 Yone of the cannon crack efs which have been shot around the elty and which came to the ears of thie clty ist those who| for the mere 1 tota’ fo $45 t Those giv pre- paid who thelr bonds Me-| In disct tter recently Chief of Polle et stated that it was lar influence and suggest orks were the F nG@ that he w aw regardi: ese only on the di mi individual who do mit of liberty but wil given an i = | FIRST DECREE CHARGE FILED (Continued from Page One.) “take a mile quest which followed. She outlined her story in the same general way | that sho had given it to the Tribune| previously Drs. A. P, Kimball, Allen McLel- lan, H. R. Lathrop, Victor R. Dacken and J. C. Kamp, wera called on the| witness a during the proceed-| ings. T! doctors testified to the| xgme general op: fon that the course | e bullet had entered the back the ninth and tenth rib, had slightly downward and for. plercing the liver and Lellan and Dr. Kimball were » Exhibit A, which was the bul- ered woman's body such These 1 the fatal missile at the Muck fun midnight Saturday. tnesses were brought to} who were residents of e. Most of these testified to| t shots and running to! e ne of the commotion, and one| o& two of the men had actually seen shots fired EXE WITNESSES SPRING | FIRST NATIO Attorney en the rem body lay bout Xounty Foster was ready t@ wend the jury out, and in fact had sfarted to send them out when they ‘Gre recalled to hear the testimony of William Tba and Mrs. Thomas Deily © two witnesses clinched the statement mate by Miss New egmb that two men had fired shots thus showing the falsity of Cantlin’s story that he only had fired and that é 1 not been in possession of | | the car two um Tha was driving contained these witnes M 1, sister M Daily, Miss Mazie Hel- serman, daughter of Mrs. Heiserman, Mies Mary McKeown, niece of Mrs. | Daily and Mrs Mary &. Iba, mother am Iba had been to Glenrock 1g to Casper when | nl shooting. Mr, Iba old-time hold-up er running be: car and firing | rst shot was said | ed when the New 0 feet from their as the at It have been only shots to combs we ar the shots| lame from the at were heard t I Tba said that t four and prob the car beside the driven by Cant-| eet from | weomb It st approached had left that nion, the under | lately left the room, going to his own |coming before the time limit expired. ‘again to Shelby and finally to Chi |danger to quarters. Major Lane, who was asleep at another hotel, was awakened and informed that there would be no fight. He hurried to Kearns’ room to begin the series of conferences that resulted in the restoration of the bat- tle. The champion's manager offered to agri to a postponement to July 5 to the finances to be completely d and a new drive started ¢ sale of tickets. This, how did not meet with the approval promoters and Kearns went n room with the newspaper cor- respondents for a discussion of the situation. Kearns asked the newspaper ever, men st what they thought of the situa tion and they unanimously were of the opinion that the fight shou'd be held They counselled with the manager to back and make the proposal to mble” with the gate receipts for his final $100,000 guarantee, provided the preliminary expenses of the show bsolutely assured The champton’s manager hesitated ed for a few moments and then left the room. He pro: mmediately to the room where omoters were conferring and the ‘gambling’ proposition. proposal was not immediately ac- however, and Lane, Molumby former Judge Roy E. Ayres for a few moments by them- talk {t over. They dis- cussed the proposition among them selves and came back in 20 minutes with the announcement that . they would accept, The first announce- ment—or the last—to the newspaper men came from Lane, who opened the shouted. “Boys, the fight is on!" The conferences of the night were not always peaceful and often through the closed doors of the room loud and angry voices were heard. Fre quently one of the promoters would shout, apparently at Kearns. “It would be a shame to let you get out of Montana with all that money without a fight.” Kearns was obstinate up to the last, insisting that he had a perfectly legal contract which called for the pay ment $300,000 before Dempsey stepped into the ring. He declared that this money had been promised him and that he had been assured, that {t would be forth- go and asked selves t of day after day The manager also clinched his: argu- ment by pointing at the clock and stating that-the contract for the Dempsey-Gibbons fight had expired at midnight. Up to the last minute Keans be: Meved the fight was off. His belief was so firm that he had already pre pared a statement explaining his position. This statement, which h¢ had ended giving out upon the calling off of the bout, follows im art PaNThe failure of the Dempsey-Gib bons fight at Shelby is due, pure! and simply to the inability of the promoters to meet a business obliga tion. I did not seek the contract | which they are unable to carry out. | In fact, it was virtually forced upon me. “At the very outset I expressed my doubt to the feasibility of the project. I advised them that fight promotion was a highly technica business and there were few men in country able to stage a world’ vyweight champtonship fight su sfully. Despite my warning the: insisted that they were able’to put the show over, that the money was already in hand to meet the terms of my contract and that I need concern | myself only with producing the cham plon, Jack Dempsey, in the ring in 4 condition at the proper time. I did not immediately accept their of. fer. They followed me via airplane from Salt Lake to Chicago and back as the he cago. “In the meantime, I had tn hand er for the Dempsey-Gibbons ym Tex Rickard and another O'Rourke, both better proposition. an 0 m than Shelt I emphatically stated to Loy J Molumby and Mike Collins that I had these offers and asked to cancel the nelby proposition as I did not thinic —_—_—_—_————— the 4. of the shootting and Riney | yn came up immediately af- | doctors found At the it impossible to probe beyond the frac tured ribs for the bullet without great the patient hompital the Mrs. Newcomb was being the hospital, Miss Newcomb and Mrs, Charles Mann were ven into town by an onlooker. In delivering the verdict yesterday the jury was out for only a few min- utes Wh Mir | To know | how good a cigarette really can be made WHO FIRED FROM THE RIGHT SIDE? to tell whicl d side of | an dark and he 1 with the char f rds, County Attor the I ‘ Mark in from tt q rb " u of the headlight man was able to get ¥ nd Mr, W b the Women's tant P r to save the mgs ran te FTAPFALLLELALLLLLALLLALLZL EB they would be able to live up their obligations. “From the outset they have never been frank with me, I have been as much in the dark as any stranger as to the actual conditions. I have been up against the same misrepresenta- tion of facts as have the press and public. “When the second $100,000 was tie, and it was plain that trouble was being experienced in meeting it, I gave the promoters a second chance to call off the show before involving themselves any deeper. I told them the first $110,000 was in the bank, had not been spent and would be held, pending my success in making arrangements clsewhere for the match, They still insisted that every- thing was all right and I believed them. to “When the date for the payment of the second installment came they had no money at all. I gave them an additional day though I was not re- quired to do so by the terms of my contract. After nearly 24 hours delay, I y had to give them $2,000 of own money to make the $100,000 yment possible “I am in boxing as a business. My contract 1s a legitimate one. Had I failed in any of its details, I would have been held accountable. It will be recalled that a year ago at Michi- gan City I sustained a loss of practi cally $200,000, when after repeated assurances by Ggvernor McCray that the Dempsey-Brennan fight could be held, he called it off at the last min- ute. I said nothing about this and took my loss. I was not only de- prived of the money called for in my contract but I lost the date. As mat ters developed, an entire year went by without my being able to get another engagement for the cham pion. In this case, as in the present, I refused other offers in order to go to Michigan City. “It 1s obviously impossible for me to keep on this way. I have to make money for Dempsey or else resign as his manager. “Some will ask why I do not ac- cept the $210,000 advanced me and go through with the fight. “In the first place, I am advised that things are in an extremely chaotic condition at Shelby. There is but $4,000 in the box office. The the preliminary fighters and in- promoters cannot pay the referes, cidental expenses. In addition, men who received tickets in return for subscriptions to the original $110,000 are now selling them at cut rates. NCO FEAR OF EVIL resulting from change of diet, water or climate, concerns those who take on the shart trip, summer vacation or long journey, CHAMBER a COLIC ana DiARRrOES Ready for emergency - night or day. | ment, Che Casper Daily Cribune Police protection quate. “While the Gibbons angle does not enter into my side of the situation, there is no question but that Gib- bons and Kane had been led to be- © they would deriv ywhere from $110,000 to $175,000 as their end on a basis of # gate return that good management would have pro- duced. Through gross mismanage- there would have been no chance of them getting a dollar out of the fight. This is a further indica- tion of the misrepresentation that has characterized the whole pro- cedure." All through the strenuous night of is entirely inade- conferences, bickerings and indeci- sions, Dempsey, ‘tho heavyweight champion, slept peacefully at his training camp on the banks of the Missouri river over the hills on the outskirts of the town. The title holder is in what he terms “perfect condition” and is ready to step into the ring any min- ute. He plans to take only a short walk today and then spend the aft- ernoon loafing around his camp. He will leave for Shelby early tomorrow morning in a private car, arriving there about 11 o'clock for his first glimpse of the battle ground. On the private car with Dempsey will be Manager Kearns, Mike Trant, the Chicago detective ser- geant who has guarded the champion to and from the ring in all of his bouts; Joo Benjamin, the Pacific coast Ughtweight and other at- tendants necessary to handle his corner at the fight. ‘“Jes’ as Fine as the Ham: What Am” LAST OF FALSE RUMORS FALL’ (Continued from Page One.) court room and hall ways at all tim during the holding of the inquest. The prisoners were not presented at the inquest because of the commo- tion they were likely to cause, but instead were whisked up the stree' to the city jail. No one except those who were in charge knew anything about the matter. ‘The location of Miller and Cantlin at the present time {1s not revealed by the county authorities who are fol- lowing their consistent policy of doing the thing that will result in the most efficient and the safest service, It 1s the general sentiment of the fair minded citizens of Casper that officers who can produce prisones at an appointed time at an appointed Place must have some control over them, and it is this control that Sher- iff Morris and his office have over E, J. Cantlin and W. E. Miller. Attorney Foster stated this morn- ing that there were no new develop. ments on the case but he stated that prosecution would be speedy and vig- orous. ft Efforts to grow cotton in New South Wales have been unsuccessful because of drought and insect pests. STAR The Morning Star—Armour’s Star Bacon. 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Each of the boards has appointed two members to serve as a committee. to meet today as an advisory board. The committee included W. O. Wilson and L, A. Reed for the school board; Dr. J. T. Morgan and Jack Scott for the commissioners, and Sylvester Pelton and John Hancock for the city council. es OARD OF THANKS. We wish to thank the frien¢s and relatives for their kindness and sym- pathy during the sickness and death of our beloved little son, gland MR. AND MRS. JOHN V. THOMAS, LOVISA HULL, MRS, L. A. THOMAS EMILY THOMAS. 2 Armours BACON (LCE LLL LELLLLLLLLL LLL ENGLEWOOD How About Your ENGLEWOOD LOT? 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