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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Jack and (earns Bury Hatchet By OSCAR FRALEY -United Press International - New York - MPD - Jack Dempsey and his old man ager, Jack (Doc) Kearns, ap peared today to have ended boxing's most famous feud. - They have been playing the ring's version of the Hatfield and the Coys for 35 years. Kearns "made" Dempsey, earned an estimated $19 mil lion with him over almost a decade and then walked out because Dempsey's wife, movie actress Estelle Taylor, "was trying to advise him."0 But they have been brought together recently, with a pos sible motion picture deal as the wedge, and the relation ship Is blossoming warm and Cordial. " It may be a case where, with Kearns 73 and Dempsey 65, once again they can co operate for mutual profit. Neither can make a movie without the other being a vital part. The split is being debated but without any acri mony. Spoils Split 50-50 i Their division of the spoils In the old days was strictly 30-50. For Dempsey was a roughneck refugee from the tank towns and the hobo jungles when Kearns picked him up. Or vice versa. ; "I met Dempsey In a saloon in Oakland, California, when I was having an argument with one of my fighters, a middleweight named Vic Han son," Kearns recalls. "Hanson was sore because 1 hadn't taken him to Australia with some of my other fight ers and he was just about to punch me around when up steps this rough-lookin' dark haired stranger. He says he will flatten Hanson if he does n't let me alone. Well a fr. for-all started but Jack and I managed to get out before the cops got there." It was the beginning of a fabulously productive associ ation, that 1917 brawl. Kearns had been a boxer but long before had decided "to hold some other bum's coat " He was more than the craftiest coat holder in the business. He taught Dempsey to weave and box and big Jack's ex plosive punch did the rest. Two years later, on July 4, 1919, Kearns had piloted Dempsey into a Toledo ring against giant Jess Willard for the heavyweight chamoion- ship. Dempsey knocked Wil lard out in the third and they really were on their wav. Marriage Causes Rift Until 1925, all went well with the two Jacks. Kearns did the plotting and the talk ing. Dempsey kept silent and did the punching. Then, how ever, he caused a minor rift by marrying Miss Taylor over Kearns' protests. The man- agerager wanted him to re main single until he was through fighting. The break became complete when Kearns felt that Jack's wife was trying to run the show. Dempsey was acting as his own manager when he signed for the first fight with Gene Tunney in 1926, the one in which he was to lose the title. Kearns threatened Dempsey with a law suit and the breach grew ever wider. There were more sub-surface currents at the time of the second Tun ney fight. An attempt was made to bring the two Jacks together a few years ago. They shook hands, however, as If each privately expected to have to count his fingers. Kearns de manded 50 per cent of a mo tion picture deal then pend ing and they were farther apart than ever when Demp sey refused the deal. There is no way of telling whether a picture can be made even now. Kearns has visions of his own life being filmed. Dempsey, what with interested authors and other "partners," is cut up in this venture more ways than a hangover shave. But the years have knock ed off a lot of brittle edges and their friends are happy to see them smiling at each other again. Rifle Meet At Ashland Ashland-Ashland Gun club will hold its annual smallbore rifle tournament on KntnrHav and Sunday, Dec. 3 and 4, at me national Guard armory in Ashland. Firing will begin on Satur day at 6 p.m. Competitors from many parts of Oregon and northern California r expected. Trophies have been donated by Ashland mer chants. There will hp fnnr firnH matches: Match 1 (20 shots, prone), match 2, (20 shots sit ting), match 3 (20 shots knee line), anrt mntrh 4 f9n chnte standing). Match 5 will be ag gregate of these four. Match 6 will be a four-man team match consisting of the aggre gates oi tne lour fired events. w. j. vantiusklrk of Ash land Will he the nffirinl Nn. tlonal Rifle association super visor. Lunch will ho tprvpH all day in the banauet roam next door to the range. MEDFORDeiWrHIBUNg SJPdDMTTS High Schools Slate Maplecourt Openers High school basketball ag gregations of this area, with exception of the Medford var sity, go into action this week end, launching a season which extends into March. Crater sophomore and fresh man teams and St. Mary's Jun ior varsity and freshmen tip off competition on Thursday at Central Point. Varsity games in Jackson county on Friday will have Crater at Eagle Point, Illinois REED INJURED Cincinnati, Ohio - UIPll - For ward Rub Reed of the Cincin nati Royals will be out of action for five days because of a fractured cheek bone, club General Manager Pepper Wilson said Monday. Reed said he thought he suffered the injury when he was hit by an elbow in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers In New York Nov. 22. Valley at Phoenix and Glen dale at Rogue River. Pros pect will be host for the Jack son County B league jamboree or Friday. Medford High's jun ior varsity will be a partici pant along with Butte Falls, St. Mary's and Prospect. Ashland plays at Eureka, Calif., that evening. Games on Saturday include Ashland at Fortune, Calif., Eagle Point at Myrtle Creek, Rogue River at Glendale, Phoenix at Illinois Valley and Butte Falls at Canyonville. Other games of interest to residents of this area are Grants Pass at Crescent City (Del Norte), Calif., on Friday and at Yreka, Calif., on Satur day and Klamath Falls at Roseburg both nights. Sydney, the steel center of Cape Breton, has one of the finest natural harbors In North America. Penn State Eyes Ducks Pittsburgh-UlPli-Penn Slate, "the best team in the East," returned to the practice field at University Park, Pa., today after a layoff for Thanksgiv ing turkey and made no bones about setting its sights on other fowl-the Ducks of Ore gon. State Coach Rip Engel, who pinned the "best" tag' on his boys because "in the last four weeks they've done every thing asked of them," ran the Nittany Lions through stiff drills in preparation for their meeting with Oregon Dec. 17 in the second annual Liberty Bowl game at Philadelphia. Oregon will start workouts at Eugene next Monday. "This team," said Engel, "Is the best in the East. I don't think you can reach any oth er conclusion. We lost only to Syracuse in the East and beat the two teams Army and Pitt which defeated Syra cuse." Engel told his team Oregon is tough. "Len Casanova fields quite a representative team, so good defensively that it limited Washington to only one touchdown," he said. The meeting between Penn State and the W e b f o o t s matches an eastern and west ern team In a major bowl for the first time since Pitt play ed Washington In the 1937 Rose Bowl. Team Moved To Puerto Rico Louisville, Ky. IUPII T h e International League has ex tended Its boundaries to Puerto Rico by moving the Miami franchise to San Juan. Despite a proposal that the league make Caracas, Vene zuela, the eighth member, there is a strong movement among IL officials that some way be found to keep a fran chise in Montreal. BUI MacDonald, prominent Florida sportsman who owned the Miami Marlins, Monday received approval to transfer the team to San Juan. League officials also announced that the Tornado Maple Leafs would open the season in the Caribbean capital April 18. "We are giving serious con sideration to Caracas because it's only about 500 miles from San Juan," said one league official. "Said another: "I'm . not quite sure that would be a good move. Some of us feel we'd do better to stick with the franchises that have op erated successfully in past seasons." The Los Angeles Dodgers informed the International league at the close of the past season that they will not op erate a farm in Montreal in 1961. I Syracuse also has been mentioned as a prospective site, should the IL abandon Montreal. . A 9 Crater High Banquet on Wednesday Central Point - University of Oregon alumni who are In terested In hearing Len Casa nova speak are reminded by Lions club officials that the Crater High school football oanquei is open to the public. 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