Tex Rickard, promoter, conferred an hour with Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, after which he said: "Wills agrees to fight for me any place in the United States on dates to be selected by myself, against heavyweights I will select, leading up to a meeting with Dempsey if Wills qualifies."
The sporting fraternity was given to understand that Wills would box Firpo (Pampas Bull) in Jersey City on June 28 or July 5. If Firpo holds to his announced intention of retiring, Rickard is likely to select either Romero-Rojas the Chilean, or Spalla the Italian,...
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