Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-22 | Page 13 | Dempsey's Trainers Earn their Money

GEM'S IBS Ei! Ill MONEY Sparring Partners Know They Have Been Hit When Jack Lands. By a Staff Correspondent of Universal Service. TOLEDO, Ohio. May 21.-The water was still around Dempsey's camp today Jack was around In a red sweater with ! 8cmvl " his face. It was no day for j YVIllard to arrive in town. Jack felt I mean, looked mean and was moan j Pempsey is ready to fight right now . In case Willard does not arrive here for . ten days Pempsey will foci so mad that ho is liable to whip a lot of newspaper men. Jack can hardly wait until the i battle day. Dempsey can hit loves to hit but hates to hit his friends. Naturally all his sparring partners are going to be his friends. When Jack lots one go it's going to sting his sparring partner Dempsey is willing to pay real money to fellows who will stand up and box with llUJ Ve'T, Vut tlley'v St to take a lot of gatf. It they can't, they are going , to be chased out of camp. s Tough on Partners. . , Dempsey, hitting playfully, sometimes .clouts too hard. His sparring partners i will have to earn their stipend, because when he lets either hand go, he is going plenty whoever he hlts. and hurt them Jack Kearns. Dempsey's manager, said toaay he wouldn't give anvbodv a dime to box with Dempsey unless the man is In condition. Jack Lavin, a heavyweight breezed in, looking for a job in Dempsey Demp-sey s camp. He saw Kearns and talked to him and Kearns looked Lavin over Jack was fat and out of shape. Kearns said: "I don't want any athletes out of condition con-dition boxing with my fighter, because they won't do him any good. Dempsey has a nasty habit of nailing his sparring partners on the square. When he hits them the sting is in the punch, and Jack just can't help putting the wallop home." Dempsey hits them from all sides and angles, and he has a "Mary Ann" In both hands, which means that the gladiators glad-iators who work with him before his : fight with Willard will have to take a real ! walloping or be chased out of the place. j Dempsey Hits Hard. J Jack cannot spar without letting go 1 everything he has. It makes no difference differ-ence who he is boxing, whether it is for fun or on the level, he starts a boxing glove toward the other fellow and when it connects the recipient knows he has received something. . ; There isn't much that could stop Dempsey in his present condition outside of a severe punch on the chin. Willard may be able to sock one home; but, if he does, it will be because Dempsey is fighting a poor battle as far as braiii work is concerned. There is no question about Willard being able to hit. He has something like 26u pounds behind every punch he happens to sneak over. No matter whom it hits, if he sticks one . through and collides with the place he I is aiming at, it will not only hurt the recipient, but it is liable to lift him out I of the place entirely. ; Ike Dorgan, one of Rickards's personal representatives, and James De Forest arrived today from New York.