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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER CHARLOTTE, N.C. SATURDAY MORNING JULY 5, 1919

_ Toledo, Ohio, July 4. - Jack Dempsey, the new champion, will remain in Toledo until at least Sunday night, his manager, Jack Kearns, announced tonight. _ "We have a dozen theatrical offers," Kearns said, "and Jack will probably open in vaudeville next week." _ Dempsey's first request after winning the title, was that a message be sent his mother, Mrs. Cecelia Dempsey, in Salt Lake City. "Your boy made good. Knocked the big fellow out in three rounds," the telegram read. _ "Willard is a game fellow," Dempsey declared. "I never handed out more punishment to anyone and have him come right back for more as Willard did today." _ Dempsey made a hurried change to his civilian clothes after his victory and was taken in an automobile to his headquarters in a downtown hotel. Hundreds of admirers greeted him as he alighted from his car at the hotel and the lobby rang with Dempsey cheers for more than 15 min- utes. _ The crowd was so great at Dempsey's hotel the new champion was forced to make an exit through the back door in order to reach the union station, where he went to greet a number of friends who had traveled from Philadelphia on a special train. Dempsey received another ovation at the railway station and had to again make an escape in order to keep the crowd from tying up traffic.

JACK'S MOTHER HAPPY WHEN GOOD NEWS CAME _ Salt Lake City, Utah, July 4. - Mrs. Celia Dempsey, mother of the new champion, shouted with joy when the flash reached her that her son had won the cham- pionship. _ "I am overjoyed," she said.

DEMPSEY BECOMES WORLD CHAMPION MATTY AT RINGSIDE

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