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Show I Jack Dempsey II., Tagged True to Type as a Fighter I 1 in ii iiinminl i i n iMhi r d 9 nk. t m R. ' ' I l ) ) I JVC 1 B- J YJ. B. SHEEAl. ACK D'EMPSEY'S rapid disposal U of Bob Devcre at Joplln, Mo., a. few days ago, marks him .as tho most promising young fighter that has coma Into the heavyweight ranks slnco l tho fall of Jack Johnson. Whllo Dcmp-' soy, or Harrison, to call him by his real name, Is too light a man to cut much of a figure with such giants as'Jcf-fries as'Jcf-fries and Johnson, and whllo he is not clever enough to have beaten such 1 "UTalths of-tho ring' as Jim Corbctt and Hj Bob Fltzslmmons, there can bo no doubt that ho Is tho "dghtingest" man B seen in the circle since Stanley kctchcl H left It some oight years ago. Dempsey is a fighting man. Ho has H the carriage, poise, chin, eyes and gen- H eral bearing of the born fighter. Six B feet and 1 inch in height and 187 H pounds in weight, he is big enough for B most of them. But they have como ! very big in the past fifteen years. H In tho old days Dempsey would have H, been big enough to -whip the best of - H them. But 1S7 pounds against 250 H pounds Is quite a handicap. Dempsey H is not big enough to have given tho - granlte-llko Jeffries, with his 220 H pounds of bono and .muscle, a real fight. H Jack Johnson was too big and too H clever for almost any man that ever lived. H I bellcvo that tho uncannily clever H negro was the greatest lighting raa- H clilne the world has ever seen. Ho had H everything, size, temperament, skill and wallop. Thcro Is not the slightest H doubt in my mind that Johnson crnld H have beaten Jeffries on tho best day H ever . seen by tho Los Angel3 bear. H Away 'back In JcfCrlcs' prime Billy H Nolan, the clover fellow -who mado so H much money for himself with Battling H Nelson, was wont to say, that Johnson H 'would make a sucker of Jeffries for six' or eight rounds. Developments H proved that Nolan need not havo limit H ed tho rounds. Johnson had evcry- H thing that Jeffries had, size, reach and H punching power, and a lot of things H that Jeffries did not havo. uncanny H skill and a perfect fighting tcmpera- H righting Easy to Johnson. H No man ever saw Johnson ruffled In H a ring. Ho was always In perfect H good humor. Fighting camo as easily 1 to the negro as rocking In a chair B comes to a debutante. I thought at H one time that Peter Jackson might ihave given Johnson all ho cared to assimilate, but long ago I convinced con-vinced myself that JcrTerles was the greatest fighter of all time, save Johnson. Dempsey could not havo dono much against the battleship Jorcerlcs, or against the heavily gunned cruiser Johnson. Peter Jackson, too would havo cut . tho Salt Lako boxer to ribbons with that deadly straight loft hand. Corbctt would have outboxed him. Fltzslmmons would havo disposed of him with one of his famous wallops. Save these great kings of tho ring. Ddmpsoy has a good right to bo considered as great as tho next man. That Dempsey can whip Fulton, If he fights him right, I firmly believe. Dcmp. sey's stylo 13 adapted to beat Fulton and Fulton's style. Is suited to Dempsey. The Westerner 13 a "well-built, sturdy chap. Ho stands firmly on good feet and strong ankles, a high Instep, which denotes speed; plenty of bone, strong, muscular calves, knees and thlgh3, a lean waistline, powerful back and good, well-muscled shoulders and chc3L Indeed, In-deed, Dempsey stands upon his feet bct-1 bct-1 tor than any man seen in the ring slnco tho day3 of Sharkey. The Marino waa a wonder on his feet for a large man. as fast as a lightweight. Yet I doubt that ho was a3 well set on his pins as Is Dempsey. Looks Like Tighter. Sharkey was fast of foot, but not. lathy and yielding on hi3 ankles as Dempsey is. Sharkey could get around, but ho could not "wave" on his feet, stand In the same spot anil avoid blows, as Dempsey can. Dcmprcy Is really one of tho bc3t set-up mon I havo ever seen. He stands exceptionally well on his pins. Thero Is a thoroughbred, stag-poised stag-poised look about him that bodes -well for speed and spring. Ho Is a nicely put up chap for sure, Is William Harrison, Har-rison, Itnown as Jack Dempsey. The lad's faco Is good from a fighting fight-ing standpoint, too. It is a good-looking face, short, puggy, with tho atrons chin, snub nose and small cyc3 of tho born boxer. His head is small, woll shaped and well set on his neck. Tho neck Itself Is powerful. Dempsey has worked hard In tno mines and at all sorts of outdoor labor. Ho Is well muscled all over, good, soft muscle, not a bit of wlro about it. His arms aro short, but effective for hla" special stylo of fighting, tho best style of tho world, close In. His chest, round and barreled, denotes goo heart and lungs, blood-purifying and staying power. On tho whole, barring- lack of Inches, thin Jack Dempsey is tho most attractive attrac-tive young fighting man that has come along in ages and ages. He may not b , bis enough to have beatea tho glanta,of tho past nor skillful enough to havo stopped tho kings of skill, but I think that ho la quito good enough to whip anything that can be matched against him Just now. . They were wont to say that it was a pity that Sharkey was not 4 Inches taller; that had bo been so ho could havo whipped Jeffries and all tho rest. Dcmpsoy may not havo the supreme fighting spirit that animated Sharkoy. but ho Is, to all Intents and purposes, Sharkey -1 inches taller. Ho Is oven a better-looking fighter than Sharkey was Tho sailor was muscle-bound, his right hand never was much good; his Jcft was, at best, a hooking hand. To save his life Sharkey could not bit a straight blow with cither hand. Nowhere was he as smoothly muscled aa Dempsey is. Dempsey Is suppler In every way, hand, arm, foot, back, limb, than Sharko was. Probably Sharkey could tako a more terriblo beating than Dempsey can. He may have possessed a su-prcmcr su-prcmcr fighting spirit. Yet Dempsey locks like a real fighting man Stanley Kctchel on a larger scale. Ho Is much a cleaner and harder hllicr than Sharkey. Shar-key. Barring his left hook, Sharkey did not have a good punch In his system. Ho won by tearing Into his men, rak-inE rak-inE them with that hook and letting them beat themselves hitting him. So far Dempsey has shown no lack of tho fighting spirit. Ho has waded Into cvory one ho has met. True, he has not met any really good man In really good condition, unless Misko could be called both. Misko Is not a first-class heavyweight heavy-weight Ho may bo a first-class light-heavy. light-heavy. That Is all. But Dompsoy'a showing against Misko was better than Fulton's showing against tho same trial horse. It 13 not at all easy to sec why Dempsey should not possess tho fighting fight-ing spirit. A man's looks rarely bello him- Dempsey's whole appcaranco la that of the aggressive fighting man; As I havo explained, ho is built aright for a fighting man spring In his In3tcps, ankles, calves and thighs; power In his waist and back, fine heart and lung power and two not ovcrlong but piston- llko arms, that should do excellent execution ex-ecution at short raige. Dempsey Is a short-rango thumper, a heavy trench motar, a slugger clo3o in, If ho Is anything any-thing at all. that Is a gofla plan on which to build a fighting man. Tho polso of his body, tho light In his eye, tho set of his jaw, betoken the gladiator. gladi-ator. There Is no reason on earth to suspect Dempsey's fighting spirit, not his stolid gamencss, that Is a very common com-mon quality, but tho soaring, conquor-ing, conquor-ing, all-defying spirit which carries a man not to a reputation for mcro gamencss, taking It, but to victory. Taken all In all, for a man of 1!J7 pounds, Dempsey is about as likely -looking a spccl'mon of . the fighting ma- M'- . ' V WTCHIE. MITCHELL AND HIS. BROTHER. BOXING, ' . chine as has como down tho line since Kctchcl left Butte to conquer the nild-dlcwclghts nild-dlcwclghts some fifteen years ago. Let us consider Fulton. Tho Minnesota Minne-sota bricklayer ls not at all so well organized or-ganized and assembled as Dempsey Is. Fulton Is of tho ramshackle type of architecture, ar-chitecture, very tall, very wldo of shoulder, long limbed, awkward, somewhat some-what ungainly. He has only one asset, a good left hand. Not that it Is so very good, either. It is long, very long, and strong, for Fulton is naturally left-handed, left-handed, and he uses It fairly well. If he could use It as Peter Jackson used his left hand, Fulton would bo almost unbeatable. But Fulton Is far from being be-ing tho skillful left-handed boxer that Jackson was. Jackson was straight as a die, unerringly uner-ringly steady with that pinking left. Ho never wobbled, swung, hooked or missed with the left. Fulton, when pressed, becomes disorganized, wallops and flails around like a wounded octopus octo-pus and is very prone to lose effectiveness effective-ness when pressed hard. Not In any wiso is Fulton built llko a fighter. He has enormous, fiat fect, and, llko Johnson, cannot get on his toes. Ho lacks tho peculiar snaky, shuffling shiftiness with which Johnson John-son moved about the ring. Johnson was flat-footed and shuffling, but ho mado tho best possible use of his handicap han-dicap and shuffled In to his opponent in a most marvelous and effective manner. man-ner. Not so with Fulton. Fred's feet arc gunboats. They trip him and mislead mis-lead him In action. Fulton and Dempsey Compared. Fulton Is terribly long In tho shin-bone, shin-bone, which Is not a bad point, but his knees aro not well knit and well set as Dempsey's knees arc. So, all the way r up. Fulton has a fine spread of shoulders, shoul-ders, but ho is shallow through thl chest, which Is not a good sign of. staying stay-ing power. All other things being equal, the man with the round, barrcliy chest chap. Dempsoy is round chested, chest shap. Dempsey is round chested, Fulton flat chested. From his collarbone up, Fulton Is a bit abnormal. His neck Is long and sags at the back. A full punch on Fulton's Ful-ton's thorax might cause him a deal of trouble. His chin Is sharp and prominent, prom-inent, his Ja' long, but not particularly' particu-larly' powerful. His head Is very small for so largo a man. Fulton 13 long In tho abdomen, where Dempsey is short. A short abdomen Is an excellent thing in a fighter. Jcr-frlcs Jcr-frlcs war so short in tho abdomen that j his belt almost touched his breast bone sternum the physician call 1U Jcf-' Jcf-' fries really had no solar plcxu3 for WHJJg'lHIJIHUIIJ.'U't"' ' " 1 MM punching purposes. Fulton has a solar plexus as long as a road ditch. Dempsoy, Demp-soy, like Jeffries, is very short In the spaco botween the belt and the chest bone. Ergo, Fulton Is vulnerable at the water line, whilo Dempsey Is especially well armored along the same dangerous zone. This being possible It should bo easy to punish Fulton In two vital places, the solar plexus and tho Jaw. Wo may look at It thus: Fulton has ono asset, a good, long loft hand. Dompsoy has several assets good feet, Ieg3, back, shoulders and two good guns at short range. His vulnerable vulner-able points, solar plexus and Jaw, arc well armored. Fulton's Long Left. It should bo an easy matter to got Fulton off his fect, to get him floundering flounder-ing about on those long legs, with tho equally long arm3 flopping about llko unsecured yardarms in a heavy sea. Dempsey strikes ono as a very hard man to get off his toes. His feet aro small, tho insteps high and strong, tho mklcs good, tho knees well set and heavily held with lino muscle, tho thighs strong as steel, tho entire man well sot up and beautifully co-ordinated. The fight between the men resolves Itself to this: Can Dcmpsoy get past Fulton's long and fairly well-managed loft hand? If Dempsey can do thl3 Dcmpsoy should win easily. But can Dempsey got past that left hand, which will bo llko a spear point In his faco every tlmo he attacks? It may seem a oimplo enough matter mat-ter to get by a left hand. But is It? ' In those days a man had to bo caro-ful caro-ful about swinging a right, for an opponent op-ponent was always llablo to "slip him hl3 nut" that is, give him tho hard sldo of the head to hit with tho knuckles. That meant a broken hand. But with gloves and Sullivan's day came tho wild swing and tho .':nock- 1 out blow. Tho old-timo boxers rarely used the right hand until thoy had their opponents beaten so badly that they could not movo as quickly us thsy wished. When ho had his opponent woll Torn tho British boxer administered tho knockout with a careful, well-aimed, well-timed cross counter, not a swing, of tho right hand, which had been held in reserve for this coup do grace. Tho Punch in the Right. Poter Jackson was tlio most perfect cxomplar of tho old school In that ht used a simple and perfect straight left to tho face. Jackson never used an upper-cut nor a swing. Ho did not know what they were until ho camo to tho United States. Jackson's entire system of boxing was founded on tho t rv -'K- ,. v i. . British principle, which was: "Feint your man until ho comes to you with a lead. Then meet him with a st'.i straight left." That was all. It was a sound system in its day. I doubt that it could win now, though a straight left is always tho most . valuablo single punch In tho repertoire of tho boxer. But tho Americans, and some of tho Australians, brought In a better style, mado possible by tho uso of tho glovj, tho two-handed system of boxing. Of this school Jack Dempsey I., Jack Mc-Aullffe, Mc-Aullffe, Isaac O'Neill Weir, Tommy Ryan, Johnny Kllbanc. Georgo Lavlgne, Bob Fltzslmmons and Jack Johnson wore tho great exemplars. Jack Dempsey II. has a great chanco to becomo a first-class exemplar of tho hard-fighting two-handed school. Hj Is built right for that sort of work. Hu " arms aro not too long, and he has tho necessary steam and power. Returning to the straight left of Fred Fulton and the chances that Dempsey has of getting past it, I might say that Fulton's left Is not at all so good :ts that of Jackson, Choynski and many other boxers. Fulton is a natural left-handed left-handed man; cats, writes, etc., with I1I3 left hand. At long range it Is a reasonably reason-ably good, stout, punishing instrument At shwt range well, wc do not need to discuss Fulton's ability at -ho:t range. He has not got any ability there. Ilia entire power Is at arm's length. I do not know whether or not Dempsey Demp-sey will bo ablo .to get past Fulton J left hand. I do know that getting y Fulton's left hand Is not by any meaii3 an Impossibility. It can bo done without with-out any great amount of trouble. A good feint Dempsey Is not a good fcini-cr fcini-cr and the trick is accomplished. Dempsey a Beginner. Dempsey Is not a skillful boxer. 'As a sheer matter of fact, ho is a mcro beginner In tho art. Which goes to show how good a fighting man he is. Few men who aro so deficient in even the rudiments of boxing would deserve sorlous consideration of their championship champion-ship chances a3 Dempsey has forced it. If Dempsey can get past Fulton's loft hand ho should tear the defenses of tho big Mlnnesotan to pieces, Dempsey Is admirably adapted to do this little tiling. Ho is closely built, very strong in tho shoulders, body and arms and can go fast and furiously for a long way. Jf he can get Inside of Fulton's left ho will bo obliged to do this again and again ho should win. Tom Covl.r, who is clever enough, but who Is also most notoriously unfit, managed man-aged to get inside Fulton right off tho reel. Cowler, fat as a butter firkin, swarmed all ovor F.ulton at St. LouU and had him all but out In the llr&t two rounds. Cowler tried, tired and lost. It Is but fair to say that Fulton was JOHHNIE DUNDEE : j ' I very dull at tho time, stale with lighting light-ing and nightly boxing In sf.uTy theaters. thea-ters. But far less likely men than Dempay . havo got past Fulton's left hand anl there Is no reason on earth that Dtap- ; soy cannot do so, too. Apart from his long left, which la tl- .' focllro only at long range and which Is f not handled with tho lightning preclslca j with which Jackson managed his kit hand, Fulton Is harmless. His right Is harmless. Ho is a rlasterer aid his 1 Lccn accustomed to use his right fcitl 1 vvllh1 an overhand mctlon in his "wort Ke uses It with an overhand doisr.- j swinging motion in the ring It Is pw-slblo pw-slblo that such an overhand blow as that used by Fulton might catch aad beat a tired man. If Dempsey only his cu-ni .nnnuii in :rlvft that rlcht haci J the top of his hard head its use will be far more dario'rous to Fulton than ; to the man at whom It is directed. Fulton's forte Is to stand off and fight deliberately, slowly. Ho docs not Hie to ba pushed or rushed. His feet do not act fast enough to let l.lm move about quickly. His style of battle is to sjur with his man and to slowly cut him to pieces' at long rango with the left hand. This Is Fulton's stylo of bcxlcg. Hs Is reasonably clever at It. On the other I hand Dempsey Is not clever at any sort of boxing or even of fighting. Tin Westerner has got nono of the fishtlrs cleverness of Fitzalmmons. Ho is ycuni and Inexperienced. Yet Kctchel never was exparieaced cither as a boxer or a fighter. He Just sailed in, swinging both hands Hks a J wild man. His fire ?nd power marti j hlni Irresistible at his weight Bo it , f-may bo with Dempsey. Still Kelch?l ( was a much higher class fighter, at h!i weight, than Dempsey is. Fitzslmmo.-J was tho mly middleweight I can rc- member who could have beater. Kctchcl I can mention half a score of heavyweights heavy-weights that would have Dc-atcti Heap-ccy, Heap-ccy, many of them because they outweighed out-weighed and were taller and lon;er Is j the reach than ho is, many oceans thoy were much clevtrcr boxers and had a better punch. Withal, I llko Dempsrey as a fightlo? man. Ho Is true to typo. He looks tba rait of a bcxer. Ho elands ipon fect, liko a bull terrier. Mgotcus, alcr. aggressive. Ho seems alwajs set -o , spring, foithgolng. Thero Js a L' f pcsllon of a loaded, primed shell abou: i him always ready to explode and !' damage. Ho is green, tcrrltlv S"c0 but Fulton is no steady hcr.d nor no . past master in the art of ring righting ,1 Fulton gets rattled when pressed. SWW !j Tim Cowler had him twinging sevon 7 ways from Sunday when they foogbt 6, at St. Louis. Frederick is not by any. fV means a natural fighting man. Ho neve' , j put on a glove until ho was told to da ( so; that ho ccukl make money by box-ing.. box-ing.. Dempsey Is tho sort of man v.i would box because he loved It. Fulton has ono asset, a good I'1 ; hand at ono range only. The fltJht nuiit go Just as ho wants It to go If he to do his bese work. Dempsey has two good hands l j short range, tho fighting Instinct, ability y to carry tho pacc much longer Oian Fulton. Nclthor man is a skills ( rlngstcr. Dempsey is inestimably ttt superior fighting 3plrlt All these thing' j considered, I think that he will w j Fulton if they meet I think, too. that j. unless Willard should bo in flr.e con- ) ditlon Dempsoy can whip him. 10 j . green, ho Is Incxporlonccd, hut from f outward and visiblo signs this yus Dempsoy, whoso namo 13 Harrison, a l4 whoso aspect la Slavic, is tho flcrccst ; fighting spirit that has come along since Stanley Kctchel wont awayv |