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Show hand to kill him kindly. The kidney punch needs no explanation. Dempsey cares mighty little about the reform of the rules. When Johnny Hckhnrdt. the Philadelphia Philadel-phia referee, who is now in Toledo, called Jack and Fred Fulton together in the i center of the ring at Harrison, X. J., and started to explain the rules, Jack said; "You mean we fight all the time, don't you?" But Fulton demurred: "Oh, no; we agreed to a clean break." "All right," said Dempsey, turning on his heels; "anything suits rne, but let's get started." One of Dempsey' s most murderous punches is a crack back of the ear. He ' has knocked out a lot of fellows with this rap. Jt does not class as a "rabbit" punch, however. Nor would a clean punch with the fist anywhere in a man's back be classed as a kidliey punch. DEMPSEY'S MANAGER HAS DIRE NOTIONS OF JESS' DESIRE TO STAGE MIX Jack Kearns Trembles Lest Willard Decide Not. toe Keep His Tryst at Rickard's Padded Arena. i BY DAMON RU N YON, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. TOLEDO, Ohio, June 30. The soul of the good Mr. Kearns, who manages man-ages Mr. Dempsey, is filled with trepidation. j "You know," he was saying flu ently, last evening, "I won' t rest easy until I see Willard in the ring." j The inference to be drawn from Mr. I Kearns's remark is that his mind is I haunted by a fear that Jess may decide not to keep his tryst with Mr. Dempsey by the old mill on the shores of Maumee l t:ay next Friday. , On what Mr. Kearns bases this horrifying horri-fying thought is not entirety clear and, in view of the lact that Mr. Willard is to receive $100,000 for keeping the appointment, ap-pointment, we are inclined to the belief that Mr. Kep.rns'3 alarm is groundless. Were Mr Willard fighting for a peck of potatoes, or for a can of salmon, we could see how he might decide at the last moment to go fishing instead of calling at Mr. Rickard's arena, but $100,000 in Toledo, Ohio, is $250,000 in Pottawatomie county, Kansas. Mr. Willard will be there. However, a manager must worry about something a few days before a fight and this is as good a subject for worry for Mr. Kearns as anything else. "We've agreed to everything without a whisper," says Jack, "with just one idea in view, and that's to get Willard in that ring. We've agreed to the referee and to the judges without debate, although we don't think much of that jury system. sys-tem. We've agreed to everything the other i?lde has proposed. All we want is to irPt Willnrrl in the rincr. After that been a great deal better off had he had the services of expert advisers and handlers han-dlers in preparing for this fight, but that is something which now belongs to the past. If he was wrong, he is the one to suffer. If he is right, fistic managers will immediately drop to below par. Old Tom Jones, the sage of Kewanee, would have been a mighty valuable man around the Willard camp" while the champion cham-pion was in training. Tom believes that his former protege is still good enough to beat Dempsey, but therein Tom differs with his former partner in tle ownership of Jess, for Jacques Curley is betting money . the other way. Charley Murray, the Buffalo promoter, wired me today asking me to bet $5000 for him against $10,000 that Willard will not respond to the bell for the eleventh round, but so far I have been unable to get x the money on. I had $1000 Willard money for Murray yesterday- at evens, I but Charles thinks he ought to get a better bet-ter price. I do not believe he will get it in Toledo. Dempsey is too well liked b-y the betting people here. Joe Bannon, circulation manager of the Evening Journal of New York, who also will be Dempsey's timekeeper, got in today to-day with a bunch of "Dempsey money. He was attended by his faithful affirmative man, Mr. Reno Jack McCaffery. Queensberry Rules Prevail. Straight Queensberry rules are to prevail pre-vail over the Friday incident, the men taking care of themselves at all times, but breaking at the command of the referees. ref-erees. This is thought to be to Dempsey's advantage A clean break would help Willard. The kidney punch ' and the so-called "rabbit" punch, which is a swat back of the neck, are barred. The "rabbit" is so denomina ted because you crack a bunny across the neck with the edge of your we'll take our chances." And while Mr. Kearns did not say so, that also goes for Willard. He, too, will be taking his chances. Willard Not Ruffled. So far Mr. Willard has expressed no mental concern as to the possibility of Mr. Dempsey being at the appointed place, at the appointed hour. Maybe he hasn't given the idea any concentrated thought. It is a cinch he would be smoked up to some extent if he figured such a possibility existed. -Mr. Willard has been the subject of about as many rumors as any champion we have ever had, not barring the mysterious mys-terious Mr. Johnson. It has been whispered whis-pered that Jess is a sleepwalker, a night-rider night-rider and everything else. Old Jacques Curley. who led the Pottawatomie Pot-tawatomie giant to the championship of the world, was here not long ago and some of the information dispensed by Jacques regarding Jess's personality has been enlarged by vivid imaginations to a startling extent. "Maybe some of this gossip reached the ears of the good Mr. Kearns to fill his moments with dire notions. Willard. as Curley said, is a man of moods. At times he is very sulky and, when things are not going to suit him, his first thought is to pack up and clear out. Curley repeated the now well-known story of how Jess got peeved at something some-thing down in Cuba, before the Johnson John-son fight, and was going to take his ball and bat and go home. And, If Jess could think of doing that when he didn't have a dime, how much more- temperamental must he be now that he is independent. However, it must be said for Willard that, with the fight only five days away, he was today apparently in the best of humor and spirits. If he is worrying, he does not show it. Jess More Clubby Now. 1 In personality, Jess has improved a I hundred per cent since the days he first became champion. He is now - cordial where once he was almost unapproach-: unapproach-: able. He has learned a lot of things. It is mv opinion that he would have |