OPPONENT FOR DEMPSEY
WILLS TO FIGHT THE CHAMPION. Austnlian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received June 30, 11.40 p.m.) • NEW YORK, June 20. The Boxing Commission announce* that a auk Dempsey has accepted the negro (Wills’s) challenge. The bout will probably be fought before the end of the year. A former message stated: —The New Yolk State Boxing Commission announced that Dempsey m*lst definitely accept, or decline, WUls’a challenge before July 10th. Failure to 6ign the articles is likely to result in the cancellation of Dempsey’s New York license. Tex Rickards announced his willingness to promote tht fight
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11251, 1 July 1922, Page 7
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