Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1920-02-01 | Page 47 | Despite Big Fuss Dempsey Retains World Heavy Title

Despite Big Fuss FUsA Dempsey Retains W eavy Title What hat Are You Yon Going to Do About It Asks Writer riter Carpentier Must Meet leet Sa Salt Laker to Decide Honors S and if They Dont Don't t Fight in This Country They'll Fight Abroad l By Herb 2 S Ss S's A x hu had his Delilah Cleopa Cleopatra ra put tho sl skids i s un under tinder er Mark Antony a a Jowl lowly empress o obsessed the tho nn ht Napoleon ap Helen caused one ons war Avar aud and Kid Paris much anguish Jack Johnson is iff awol si because e of a white I woman tI etc an and etc down own through hi history lory until we wc find J Jack tIck Dempsey Tv h with h his Maxine laxine hi And w wise vise f fl so men Inca do 10 say that history repeats itself I u u J 1 V u land r Cain who Cain who some soma I punch himself women himself women have I been J the yeast to man many a good I fighter tighter and amI the they didn't have c any 27 kick either cither LII Arthur I It Is Js an nn od odd twist of circumstances I that coming conring on top of or the trouble Mrs Maxine Dempsey Dempse tho world worl I heavyweight hoa champions champion's wife ox has I I stirred up in iii the announcement that Juck Johnson the former former champion I would return to the United States I face taco his char charge e of or violating the Manna tann I white slave act and then take taka on Jack D Dempsey Dempse cm The Time possibilities of at Ruch a match however er are arc Il hea heavily veiled in the dim future Comment Is flying on all sides and speculation is rife as to whether charges of slacker and draft raft ea evad evader er r which have been hurled at Demp- Demp I Demp-I soy e will not kill his chances o of a championship watch with Georges Carpentier Car- Car the tho European title 11 holder Ill I'll bar So SoDe De Despite llo hut part of or tho the world may think of ot Dempsey the fact remains that he be Is la now heavyweight cham- cham I cham-I j plea plon of the world and will remain j hen heavyweight hea wel ht champion of or the tho world until ho retires or someone defeats him I What hat would a match between n Carpentier Carpentier Car- Car and Bob nob Martin or an any r comer r or ha has been been prove Absolutely nothing History mn may again repeat itself In case cas charges a against Dempsey are proven and amid he hc may follow partly Inthe in tho the footsteps footstep of or Jack Johnson Public opinion against the time colored tighter fighters white wife approached a near lynching fever fe in parts of or tho time I south when Johnson traveled through h Ills lat later r entanglement with the fed fed- cd- cd eral authorities on a n charge chare of or violating violat violat- I ing lag the ManS Iann white slave act hl hi hia hopes In the United States Stated but I did lId it kill his fighting chances Not until Jess anno annoyed cd tho the I I heavyweight belt b by winning over o I Johnson In Ha Havana I Under A Guard I The most mOlt hated man in the tho world orld could coul i bo brought to America nn and onI ona on ona I I a vaud vaudeville ille engagement would bring reco d box hox office receipts I If charges now pending against I i Dempsey are pr proven cn there are plenty of oC places In the world to lo stage a acharn charn championship bout providing Dempsey I will tl fight ht and th the promoter would not have havo to worry over box office I receipts Fans would attend If fC only onh to see Bee I Dempsey got ot a beating Jack I Kearns earns De p manager I I has done more to emphasize the char charges a against Dempsey Dempse and bring them to public notice than anyone else Ielse If It taken for tor granted that Kearns Kearns' charge chargo that tho whole Is an organized plot to dl discredit r t I Ia is tr true th the fight I I manager managers s a IS 13 mu lone eau bull of his career I talked with and ha had several several sev sev- eral chats with Dempsey while In Los An Angeles eles several weeks ago o and antI while I Dempsey is an au affable frank an and un- un spoiled d a man as as' could lo le qc expect expected Kearns gives a negative impression which goes far fal to counteract this Public J In Tired d The public is tired of ot hearing of or Mrs Dempsey's so called mythical Jetter letter letter let Jet ter which she nho says will br break ak her hor ex husban Every move that she hasma has ma marie made c has been against h her r own In In- In The world is sick siek of ot the charges countercharges and refutations It i wants proof And n when that thal proof romes comes wh whether ther It be he for or against the champion fight fans tans can be practically practically certain that other things 8 being beIng belag be be- ing lag equal they ther can still see sea a Demp Demp- sey sey-Carpentier fight tight whether it be In Ine n Now New e York City or Antananarivo