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Show DEMPSEY IS STILL RING TIGER 3 3T 3C ' -MP . 9V 36? Layoff of Fourteen Months Hasn't Slowed Down Socking Champion Ready for Miske i BY DI SNYDER. j BENTO.v HARBOR, Mich . Aug. 30. j Champion Jack Dempsey is still the tiger fighter In the ring and the boy, outside it. 4 Jf a fourteen months' layofl has m&de any difference In his fighting prowess it doesn't show In any of his work as he gOSS about t!e daily routine rou-tine of training for his ji!,0i Da. mill here with Billy Miske of tf: Paul No boxer ever got more actual enjoyment en-joyment out oi figniing than ihc present pres-ent champion. The only trouble with Dempsey is that he has to be held IbaoK from over-doing. He teais into Is sparring partners like it was a. ieal fight. Dempsey doesn't know how to pull in::, punches, as any of thore who have boxed with Mm, including Jess Wll-lard. Wll-lard. will testify. Kumbrs that he had grown fat and sou while making pictures is without credence. His exhibition boxing in New York se.r ed to -put him on edge and to swing him back Into his Old t i ide. Ins weight varies from two to three 'pounds oe;- 10 pounds. He says he'll bring It down to 181 before hepl 6. there is no apparent supeitluous fat o: his muscular body. hi s mi i.i:i.m:i). hen asked it he believed he was as g'. od as when he won tne title. Denipsey thought a Utile WhllS beioro answering, "That is hard to soy." he finally re-plkd. re-plkd. "J ought to be. 1 m a year loci now. Tnat ought to toughe'i me. i led stronger, and then I've developed develop-ed more a.ound the back and shoulders. shoul-ders. if there is any difference in mo now than when 1 fought at Toledo It r. be that my eyes a ren t ctiit" as quick, pet haps, as they were then. A .f.ghter h;;s to be goim; regular in or-in or-in to keep his eyes in trim. Miske ; Is a tiirong. tough (el low, Yhey say ho Is ncavier and in better health than when 1 boxed him at botn St. Paul und i 'nllade.pl; i.i two ,nn aj, .,. I hoie l'.p fiCh's me lor ihosi- nr tho k.oil uf b..i.b I liie best." iiia camp is pitched will) In a hundred hun-dred yards of the battle arena. Pro-' looter Floyd Fitssimfiions,' the man' v ho has .-"-ink a cold (lOO.OOO in thi.s Labor Day card already, has turned r cr his cottage to Dempsey and hio rollntfe. Charley White Red the same . up in preparation, fo: luo bout with! Ltnny Leonard. I UU s THE M l R Dempsey dunks a lot of the Benton Harbor mineral water. There is a pump at th rear of his cottage where ncis U fresh and sparkling from Jeep down In the Michigan sands. 1 1 B Starts the day's work- with a five-mile five-mile run. accompanied by the ever' luithfui Bill Tate and Joe Gans, his coiu.-ed sparring partners. The roads jio soft ond sitndy The big fellow cn't make much speed. This is the oniy feature of the training alte he doesn't like 'Ih sand slows him up and what he wants most is speed. He i ises at 6:30, eats a light breakfast, and goes on t h road at s o'clock Ben Smith takes him in tow after the road work. Ben hasn't a peer any place, probably, as a rubber. What he I i woes Denipsey may make suggestions sug-gestions as to how he wants things uon but that's .is far :s it counts ' . 1 9? - J"' - ''" hi' .r-vvaW- - OOtlSStl U i H f t . i W ' , I Ben knows his business ami does it. I.Ol .Ni.lM. IIOl i;v . After the rUbdown Jack ha? a little lime of his own. There is a plum lice in the yard and you'll find the world's hcuvyweighl champion out there perched on a limb a good man:' I times every day. Neighboring cl il-l,cH il-l,cH have all been mail his close friends and confidants. They liko the p.ums that Jack shakes down for them i. it they like him. too. He has always had a great way of attracting children 10 him. The Intervening time before he does IllS ring work is taken up by reading the papers, S light lunch at noon, a gums of solitaire, sometimes a nap, and perhaps a spin to downtow n head-l head-l larters in Promoter FitXSimmons' big' red roadster. RUSH! s I V ERTYTHXNG Ills training ring la just in front of ti e ball park grandstand. Ho boxes at 3:30. Misko works out at - 30 at Ike Bernstein's Quarters, about three-quarters three-quarters Of a mile up the road. It Is a i ranged this way so that the crowds can see both Miske and Dempsey get In battle form. The fans rush from one camp to another trying to get the 11 side dope on the match. All the while Dempsey ij working he i uahes everything first the punching punch-ing bag, then his SParrlng partners, and then finishes otr b whanging the! di-y lights out of old "Sal," the J5o-' pound leather-covered sand bag He goes three rounds with both1 Tbtf and Qans. Dempsey uses the' lowering form of Tale tor body punch-' lag practice, but he ;iso takes .iome . prett stiff smacks from Tate's powerful pow-erful BWingt That toughens him upi and he likes It Gans weighs about 148, pounds. Dempsey has to speed up to keep the Panama boy away from him. wH Y$&r r- "f- S3BI -? " . .t' V&ffi; 'i ' ...... . ' w Here nre the latest pictures of Chnniplon .Tack Dempsey, taken hy Rob I Dorman. . i .. . photographer, at B ntoii Harbor. t the left is Demp-punching Demp-punching the sandbag The force ol hi i!o can 1h iw tc"l from the curved h-..t ii It. On the iikIu Jack i tearing Into Ills sparring partner, "Panama" Joe Gans. The dire picture insert at the bottom shows that Jack Is ;in iii- boj he was when in- n the ihv. Nme there ate no iim-- l.i l,u hu i f This combination of sparring partners part-ners Is almost Ideal, for it uies htm a workout for both punching and fast slogging. Harry Greb, who boxes Marty Parrel Par-rel on t'ie same Uibor Day card, completes com-pletes Dempsey's staff. Dempsey Isn't going to be caughr napping. H, is eager to box all on- tend I shd uivc them their chance without favoi or exception. Whether he is as good a man now OS he w.i- when he socked Willafd .Into that ne ,1 -to-be-forgotten daze of pitiful helplessness cannot be assured until after h meets Miske Any bbxer needS' a few fights under his belt be-' I fore he is Rolr.g top. |