Show Jack Dempsey Unpopular As Vaudeville Champion I Kansas City Star i iNo No 0 blow that Jess Willard lIlard landed on Jack Dempsey Dempse at Toledo hurt the tho champion half as badly as the wallop w handed him b by St. St Louis Loul fight f fans ns at atI I Forest Park ParI Highlands last week when only a handful of or persons turned out to view his efforts as a llan lian Ills His reception throughout the week was a nightly slap in the tho face Dempsey opened last Sunday afternoon afternoon after after- noon wIt wIt-It scarcely paid admissions admissions in the tho house At the night performance performance per per- the first eleven cleven rows of 12 seats were occupied largely ar ely b by advertising advertising adver adver- paper Japer with a sprinkling of oC general admissions far in the rear Tho The crowd was so scant scanty tho the mana management management manage manage- c- c ment Invited In tho ho general admission I scat holders down front In order that Dempsey might be accorded a better greeting s Monday afternoon there hero were not persons present although it was declared a 1 Sl matinee Monday night only twelve rows were occupied and Monday is the tho big night ht in St. St Louis theatrical circles Tuesday the at attendance attendance at- at fell a awa away vay to even en less At no notime notime notime time during the lino week was hero t even en half haIr a house The effect of this lack of patronage o was felt Celt most keenly I by br Dempsey Dempse and his manager manas Jack Kearns although h no I financial loss to either cither was involved In Dempsey is under a weekly guarantee an and the theatre I Is ly the only loser on the outcome Ton Tony er proprietor of oC tho garden stated he hc booked Dempsey merely for tho the ad Even en on this basis it appears to have ha been a poor investment Kearns had hoped to see Dempsey greeted reeled b by a tremendous throng and given si a rousing reception ono reception one that would cheer him for the remaining fourteen weeks of oC his tour Ho had also figured tho the glowing reports of oC StLouis St St. Louis crowds sent out in advance ance would make good billboard literature Cut But the stuff Is off now now outside outside cities learning Jc of the Dempsey reception recaption here will think the champion Is a poor drawing card As a matter of or fact tho the failure of ot Dempsey Dempse to draw Is not due to his lack Jack of oC popularity but to tho the high prices charged to 2 0 an and to tho the hoc location tion of or the thc summer slimmer garden that booked him him The Tho theatre Is forty five minutes' minutes ride from downtown nto Ordinarily Ordinarily Ordinarily its highest admission charge chare is 50 cents and the character I of its patronage patronage pa pa- is not of the 3 2 2 varlet variety It n c Different on the Street The Tho real test of Dempses s popularIty popular popular- It Ity was shown when he undertook to tomake tomake make a shopping tour tour through tho district Some newsboys were first to Identify him hint and as his Journey journe Into the thc cl city progressed the crowd grew rew To escape his hlll unexpected following Dempsey ducked into a a. barber barber barber bar bar- ber shop and sank into a chair chait lIe He counted without the host outside A heavy truck stopping outside In to the one way traffic str street et blocked completely com com- all vehicle passage e. The c c od jamme jammed entirely acro across s Seventh Se street I and swarmed upon the truck The Tho po police police police po- po lice were welo required to disperse the gathering which collected again ain around Dempsey Dempse the tho moment he reap po poured Jack ducked into an office building and escaped up the elevator cle waiting in fu a friends friend's office until the tho mob had hall dispersed I Dempsey still Is in fine shape He Is tali taking liS I-liS great care of oC no tic expressed expressed ex ex- I pressed tho wit wish h that Kearns would match malch him a as ns' soon aft a possible I 1 dont don't like this Show dhow stuff I have e K fright ht er e every time I go I to the front Id I'd rather face a u beating than thai thana thaia a crowd clowd he said t 1 II lierl n Choose I I I dont don't sec see much e of oC fl fighting j for or several ge months although I think Kearns H aros ought might to take tal c up sonic some of those these th e eI I i phony Ony challenges Willie Median Median- Meehan Median doe doesn't nt amount to anything I j I lies He's a cheese fighter He II cant can't hit lilt pr r i l box and all ill he can do Is cover er clinch and stall If I meet him again III he may maya last a round or two At t San n Francisco It in that benefit bout bOllt Kearns had bad to toj j promise him I 1 would not knock him him out before he would go JO on I think Median and 1 would maleo make a aLad abad 1 Lad bad d match But if iC the public think enough of It to offer 1 I dont don't see nee seewhy why wh I J sho should not nut take It UI UI U. U dont don't think much of the I 1 talent that's challenging ln Ill I'll take lake them therm all allon allun on un within n a month If It Kearns says the word word and and that goes gocs for Beckett and amid Carpenter too Jack Jock Kearns stated that thai nt at nt Detroit I I w hen lien the Demp Dempsey cy t show how opens a now new company mill- mill be en engaged a cd t l lend atI attraction at- at J I I traction to the Dempsey exhibition i At t St. St Louis the vat val ilIe e was wa n nIl n n- Il I act net con consists of oC a short abort address to th the audience the worlds orld's champion being garbed de rl rigour from I sill silk lint hat to patent leathers leather Ho lie then Introduces his hilt manager tins time man flan who I made malIe mo Inc what I I am fun and and escapes to I I 1 change e his costume curtain text lifts Dempsey V thun hun tho the I 10 K In It the ring liming flaming In cerise colored col- col 01 ored ed tI tights The firtH first night he boxed two rounds with One rounds Carrl- Carrl SOli soaI whom hom ho he knocked 1 through the ropes an and on the thc nose III In a u manner to tu the claret to tn low flow Since that time lIme the only person pi will will- willIng In Ing to C face cc hint him was Marty Cutler his sparring Ia pert part rl 10 nor 10 Thc They box two t rounds and rot fol J It with an lin Illustration tion lion of some Mome tt tf t tho the punches t that brou brought ht low |