The Archive · 1920

A Challenge to Dempsey

New York, Sept. 23.

Mr. Ordapal. the well-known Cuban sportsman, has cabled to Mr. Kearns, Jack Dempsey's manager, offering to guarantee $100,000 for a fight between Dempsey and the so-called Spanish _heavy-weight champion, John Sanches, at Havana on the second Sunday in Janu-Mr. Kearns, states that he is willing to arrange the match, if the conditions are satisfactory. He says that he does not know Sanches, but Dempsey is willing to fight anybody in_the world in defence of his title.—Reuter.

Caprats Synnerberg left for Yokohama on Thursday in connexion with the organization of Russian resistance to China's destruction of Russian extraterritorial rights.

H. M.S. Cricket (It. Commander J. 'S Morrell) which should have left for the Yangtze on Thurs: day put back on account of an unfortunate accident. As James Goodfield, able seaman, was getting into a sampan at the Customs Jetty at about midnight on Wednesday the sampan was capsized and the man was drowned.

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