Show SPORTS PORTS oU oUI I S j r ir Jack Dempsey is said to be starting hard training for his proposed July bout Dempsey started training several years ago alo and he hasn't stopped He's Hes always In training Wherever he spends a a. few days he boxes boxel shadow boxes and ant punches punch s the bag In a gymnasium at an hour a a. day He to work believes believes be be- be- be In work work thinks thinks that a man al always aI- aI I ways In izy shape will stay atay at the top of I his form torm much longer than a a. man who I trains Intermittently Dempsey points I out the the fact fact that a man who works hard out of ot doors every day is usually pretty fit tit Hard work like farming may not keep kelp a a. a man limber enough for tor boxing but It gives him endurance Dempsey's ys y's work Is calculated to keep him supple and fast and give him the str strength and endurance he needs in a a. contest When Dempsey DempslY settles d down wn seriously to training for tor a fight tight he Is already In in good condition All he needs Is a bit bitof bitof I of ot extra boot boxing In with the toughest sparring sparring spar spar- ring partners he be can get to accustom him to giving an and taking hard punches punch s. s be ho enjoys that polishing process That That's why he always trains several weeks for tor fora tora a bout boul Dempsey Is an unusual type among fighters He lie gets his chief pleasures out of boxing the boxIng the harder the better and better and the soft loft living that champions usually drop Into as a a. novelty doesn't dOf appeal to him at all That's why Dempsey Ithe It If he can cart find opponents opponent i. i U loS likely to be C for tor a Ion r time WILM ts SOFT SAYS TATE DIg Big Bill Tate has Invaded New York Met Bill on the train coming In from front Chicago and he had hada a a. lot of ot things to ta say Im going back to New York to give Mr Wills Vilie a a. chance to fight me Ine again and get back the colored heavyweight championship If It he can said laid Bill I j beat Wills a a. couple of years years ago Griffith giving me the fight twice on foul fouls After that I fought all alt over the West They made fight me me at Portland Port- Port land and Ore Orl Ho He fouled me so often h hn be wa wai wa disqualified The club paid me and held Wills Wills' money up I made them a proposition t to hold the fight tight over again and Id I'd fight him for tor nothing Wills nothing Wills to get ret his money If It he didn't hit me below I Ithe the belt belt no no other fouls to count an ant l ev everybody in free i Od de Ten thousand people o saw that fight tight i and nd thousands more blocked the street outside It sure aure was a ft rough tight I t bent eat Wills Wilts all the way when he tried to hold my arm the way he did lid Fulton's and wallo me use with his other hand band f r fet let et him hold holland and hooked him with my mr left eft until he was wal glad to let go I was wan too oo big for tor him to use ule that trick and I Iwas Iwas wall was stronger than than he In the first couple of ot rounds rounds- he roughed me and lifted me around an I II let him lift It dont don't do no man any good to lift 29 28 pounds around on his arm He Hs soon BOon gave cave that up and front from that time on he ho did a a. lot of running around the UtI ring I caught him in the tenth and knocked him flat on his h face tace i and the Oh bell hell saved saed him WILLS REFUSES TO 10 TALK T FIGHT I 1 got ot the decision and since clUes that time tIm Mr Wills Vilis cant can't be Induced even to tall talk about fighting lighting me mI I Wills Vilis and I used to be good friends friend ed Tate One day we w were e up upi i In in Harlem and Wills Villa began kidding me sue about what Dempsey did to me sue in train ing ng and what ho he could d do to Dempsey Dont D forget g that Dempsey would hit Lilt t yo you I said laid that boys boyn sure lure fast talt I Yeah Yea said eald Wills ms I know all cli about Dempsey He Us might slip one through but nit hed he'd never lay icy another glove clove on me in ina a a. week Harry I say pat sai if It Dempsey Dempey hits you rou once ones he ha wouldn't need to hit you again In the same came week After Atter that Wills ms and I D never ver did get along f I Tate wh wit Wh ha hac ha boxed nearly all aU or of t them js JI of ot the opinion that Wills would I be a soft sott mark for tor Dempsey Dempley and almost a as al soft for himself Wills Is the greatest downhill dow tighter fighter In the world world- says Bill but when he ld nfl n anything to you in Sn four u or five rounds and th then n you ou come out and say eay Come on on boy light fight Lets Leti go go Why that hat just about settles him Another thing that gets geta Wills Is i when you OU smile at him lies He's always making war faces face and Tm Im always It gets sets hl his hll oat g-oat goat Wills ml isa has been do dodging matches ever i since he was as boosted into a contract t to tc O meet melt Dempsey Demps when some e promote promoter r makes a a. suitable offer He Ite might get n 11 little action out nut of ot Tate late who is at leas t Wills VIlis equal in bulk I |