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Show DEMPSEY'S STRENUOUS WORKOUTS ARE ENDED; WiLLARD IS STILL BUSY Challenger's Heavy Training Program Aban-boned; Aban-boned; Light Exercises From Now On Is to Rule; Jess's Sparring Partner Lands Left to Stomach of Champion With Telling Effect. man to get into any better condition than I am In. I haven't a sore spot on me or in me. My eye Is entirely healed, and If Willard causes It to bleed it will be bc-fHii.se bc-fHii.se he has made a fresh cut and not opened the old one. I don't think he will, though. "if anybody has anv doubt as to my ability to hit, and I mean by that to hit hard nnd often and from any angle, let him talk to Tate or Jamaica Kid. 1 know that 1 can hit and I know that Willard can be hit." Dempsey held out his hand. "You don't see anything wrong with them, do you?" he asked. There was not a sign of a bruise or sprain on either hand. Jack smiled. "This will be my first important fi.ght in which I will enter the rincr without a sore hand. I've knocked some big ones out with a bum mitt, and with my hands in perfect shape, I feel more confident than ever of a quick knockout, victory over Willard." By FRANK G. MENKE, Universal Service Staff Correspondent. TOL1MX), June 30. A trio of furiously furi-ously contracted rounds wound up Jack Dempscy's strenuous training program for his battle on July 4. . "From now on it's nothing hut liyil!-h-sXCrin"U-St fcnoK' to keep his Kn.s" " Shape'" 'red Manager J?1S cling net of DempseVs m -0 V luml training was tn swan f'inm?1" :lUml cat'h with Hill Tate, J...w2LKJd n,nd Jock Malone. loonls'" worked, HUly Muldoon. the order f linor- measured the -voungster. novB surnrise of the crowd. Dcmp-ln Dcmp-ln feet 2 '"dies in ring toes. Mis night ..jf.1 Ereat a surprise as was the' Mnum ij 1;lHt we'k that he beamed Impn,. J left a -il'.v 1S most deceptive look- haits r1" T ever saw in the ring," said I Clt'I-i: ."NVat'h him in action against ! man-"-';11'10 smaller men and von can't: ka I; th the thought that he Is over i crow that he beams bevond 200. nighi,. t little heavier than a husky mid-orde mid-orde A v. ::en you stand in the crowd , at him." , finds constituted the dav's work ' j ,3 Willard. The champion took on if R rfmnle for three rounds and then ir.e if sAme numher with Walter Mon-(i:an.! Mon-(i:an.! The big fellow, whose eve was t vrfcrdny hv Monaghan, apparently r,l inn in d a little retal'ation for Mona-j;.-nfid opened proceedings in each -in 10' swinging viciously. Bnt Walter nnd kept awav from the cbam-,'J'.p cbam-,'J'.p Walter also carried the fight to 'OI and whanged him twice on the YJ optic, causing it to bleed a ftHlflffhan Gets Busy. be uvprise of the afternoon in the nft :i workout was the manner in which " "-iin sent in a crushing left to Wll-- Wll-- rd"s stomach. It wasn't of the variety iat Jess stands and takes good naturedly ;o:n -,is sparring partners," but carried a iap to it that made Willard look up in "mlo:-. The men eyed each other for a dl ,-econd before resuming sparring. 1 -ss's right unpercut also disappointed the ' owd. He tried it again and again on i. emple with little success. He missed -ur of them in a row. '.The champion's condition is still unsat-! unsat-! factory to him and lie announced that V' would keep on with his boxing through I'ednesday and rest Thursdaw On Tues-ly Tues-ly ;md Wednesday he will box three j'nds each with 1-Iemple and Monaghan. '.;tdi-.v boxing will constitute the rest of : - exercise. I ;ct ting en the contest was practically 1 a standstill todav. There is a world of i-mpsey monev waiting for Willard fans over, but thev remain backward. One ,.kcrsaid the Willard men were nibbling , Htle today and expected to see some - e wagers made in a day or two. '.-.ids were one to three that Dempsey ; ;M kno?k Willard out. There were ' -ral other freak bets. Keen money ; the l..est the Dempsey men could get ' conversational bets" with Willard ' : niters, who refuse to let go their ;.jy. expecting thru, they will get bet-' bet-' linn even for their cash, f mpsev received a proposition today i the National Sporting club to box Carpentier in New York City in larv. Dempsey will get $.'!n.O0O for :are if he loses the Willard fight and j it if he wins, carpentier wiil get t j if the match goes through, i proposition was made to Kearns, i aid lie would not discuss it with 1 cv until after the WiMard bout mi-' mi-' hevf about it from some other Jii :i . n" t want to take any . ,' - 0n v.orryiny i.s man with any-.'""j-til alter the mixup Friday after- cres Himself "Fit." .rp?ev tos not worrying today when , 1 ;ni:it'(- '.--s boxing. To see him and . "' o n- ,r'e w'Di.ild never guess that ''- on-..i? tve of one of the greatest u wiT-LV-m 1 istorv. T'nless his atten-ie atten-ie f '.s C'A 10 Jak seldom refers to -"' n (on'e-- His training is simply a part oif ev r-day life and lie looks upon un ' vil '-,0,Jt as any other man does nd -i.en w:d abuit his condition, Demp-rn Demp-rn - ;a;i. 'Fit as a fiddle. I never felt nis . tjr i" "'7 'e- 1 never expect to and I v iny ot-.er man ever will. I ''m'l 'i-'iS'!- 's inianly possible for a |