Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-07-08 | Page 10 | Painful Injuries Suffered by Jess

PIFUL INJURIES SUFFfffl BY JESS Big Fellow Given Thorough Thor-ough Examination Before Be-fore Leaving Toledo. TOLEDO, Ohio, July 7. Professor Jim Byrne, official physician of a local athletic ath-letic club, gave Jess Willard. loser of the championship, an exhaustive examination examina-tion yesterday afternoon, and later told what he found was wrong with the big fellow. Briefly, the Byrne statement amounts to about this: "Willard's jaw was dislocated and is giving him a great deal of pain. H:a frontal bone on the right side was shattered shat-tered and from what I saw it teems to me than an operation will be necessary before he gets the right sort of relief. The ex-champion has other injuires and laceration;, but none of them is of a serious character. His floating ribs are mashed and decidedly painlul and it will take some time for them to get Lack to normal. "All told, I Fhould say that It will at least six wer-ks before Wiliard is back to normal condition and able to move ( about comfortably. He pot a tremendous beating and. due potsibly to his rather ! soft condition, was an easy victim to the heavy punching of Dempsey." There was a wild report around To- !edo yesterday afternoon that the hi? f el - I 'ow was dyine and later that he actually had d:?d. This was vigorously denied. ; but it gained plenty of circulation. ' There being no afternoon papers, the ru- j mors grew stronger every minute. ! Byrne is a man of great thoroughness and his rrrt is acrepir-d generally as one of auMKTtty and the nearest that ha , been made yet. j