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...Jack Dempsey: " I set up my training camp for my fight with Gibbons at Great Falls, Mont., on the site of the first brewery established there. Its picturesque ruins are beside my training ring...
...Rickard is already figuring on a Willard-Firpo match at Boyle's Thirty Acres. The winner will meet Dempsey...
Shelby, Mont., is to take its place beside Goldfield, Nev., as the scene of a great conflict. Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion, has signed articles to fight 15 rounds to decision with Tom Gibbons of St. Paul in Shelby on the afternoon of July 4. Shelby is populated by slightly less than 1,000 persons and is seldom dignified by mention on the map. Montana promotors have guaranteed the champion $300,000, nearly $700 a minute, for his part in the ceremonies. Gibbons will take a gambler's chance with a percentage of the gate receipts...
Meanwhile Dempsey and Gibbons have started training...
Ignace Jan Paderewski: " Since last November my earnings have been $460,000-or about $7,800 a concert. I smile at Ruth and Dempsey, who are reputed to average $80,000 and $150,000 a year, respectively. I bow to Fairbanks and Chaplin, whose reported earnings...