New York, Jan. 8.
Articles were signed here to-day' for a 15-round fight between Jack Sharkey, leading heavyweight contender, and Phil Scott of England, who has been thought-of poorly in the United States until recently but whose flattening of the Argentine giant Campolo earned him a place in the spotlight.
They will fight in Miami, Florida, on February 27, Each man is to be given 25 per cent. of the gate receipts. The bout will be under the auspices of the Madison Square Garden Corporation.
Although the Florida limit is 10 rounds, principals in the negotiations said to-day that this difficulty can be overcome. is known that I ing Floridans have been anxious to obtain the fight as a means of drawing "big money" into the state, {despite the historic horrible example of Shelby, Montana, scene of the Tunney to Undergo Operation Billy Gibson, former manager of the retired heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney, said today that Tunney may be compelled to undergo an operation soon.
The ailment did not result from fighting but was a normal development from a stone, according to Gibson.
The ex-champion and his wife, who recently returned from Europe, spent several hours to-day in assisting Hugh Walpole, English author, autographing books when a crowd of women surrounded the author following a lecture he had given.
Tunney has developed friendships ith a number of authors includ Walpole, George Bernard Shaw and Thornton Wilder, and New York sports editors with whom he was never popular and who dubbed him "the batt bookworm" seem convinced that he will never return to the ring—United Press.
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