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Show : BOTH FIGHTERS I SATISFIED WITH THEIR CONDITION ; i Jess Says He Is Surprised at Ease With Which He Has Rounded to Form; Will Fight Own Fight, Without Advice From Seconds; Dernpsey Entertains Big Crowd in Six Fast Rounds; Referee Likely to Be Chosen Monday. Ey EAY PEARSON. (Tribuno Special Service.) TOLEDO, June 21. "Less than a "month uftr-r I alined with Tex RIckard ' that contract to fight Jack Dernpsey on July 4, I regretted it, but now I am glad." ' That was the statement made today '.' by world's heavyweight champion, Jess , Willard, after he had finished his afternoon after-noon task of manhandling four sparring . t;; partners. Then the champion continued with the- explanation: 'It took me less than a month with a little preliminary work to find out I was up against a tough Job. I honestly didn't believe that I could go through the grind necessary for me to get in condition to fight. Put once started, I didn't let up, and, while it was hard work in the early stages, I have gained my reward. "Today I am perfectly satisfied with my condition; surprised, too, that I have been able to succeed more easily than I expected. When I get Into the ring to fight Jack Dernpsey, I will be fit and ' ready to make the fight of a champion. 1 Just watch me." Willard will fight as his own mind dic- tates. No ono in his corner Is going to advise him. ':' Needs No Advice. The champion is going to play a lone .'hand. Ho is confident of winning, and, if he loses he doesn't think there's a .-. chance of that he will blame one man . Jess Willard. Ho isn't going to turn a hand next v. Monday. He's going to rest, and his .; ' sparring partners wore overjoyed when , they heard the news. It will be the first . , clay of rest for Willard since he started - training three months ago. There was action galore in the "two-ringed, "two-ringed, circus" this afternoon, for Demp-I Demp-I sey, as well as Willard, engaged In box-i box-i ;. lng to please sizeable crowds. The cham-. cham-. pion tore off eight rounds under a blaz-! blaz-! ing sun, and each of his Sparring part- . ,. ners was weary when the workout ended. Jack Hoinen wasn't among those pres- , ent. The Chicaogan who boxed with Willard and was knocked cold yesterday, didn't feel equal to the occasion. Another fellow, "Steamboat liil!" Scott, blew Into town and, as Wiilnrd is willing will-ing to give anybody providing the man is white a job on tho training staff, it wasn't hard for Scott to "land." Jess found Scott just as easy as any of the others to handle, and two rounds of rough treatment found Scott bleeding from the mouth rcadv to call it a day. Hemple took two rounds of mauling. Chip, another pair, and thj last two went to Monughan. Dernpsey in Six Fast Rounds. Dempsev gave the fans sometning to watch when he cave a speed exhibition of six unds. First he took on Jamaica Kid. Bill Tate followed and Terry Mc-Kellar Mc-Kellar finished up, each helper boxing two rounds. There were no knockouts or knockdowns. Jack's husky partners took no ckk.ncos of reopening the rapidly healing cut over Dempsey's right eye, and most of their punches went to the body. . " ' Adam Emple, secretary of the army, navy and civilian boxhig board, arrived in Toledo today for the purpose of conferring con-ferring with Christopher Wall, chairman of tho Ohio boxing commission. Tex Rickard, Willard and Dernpsey are submitting sub-mitting for their consideration the names of a number of referees selected by the board. From this list a man will be selected by Major A. J. Drexel Biddle, president of the board, at a meeting to be held on Monday afternoon. There is not a hint as to who the referee will be, but, judging judg-ing by the dope around town. Ollie Pecord, a local man, has a good chance. It is probable, but not' certain, that two judges also will be chosen. Gutson Borglum, chairman of the civilian committee of the board, and Alfred Marillev, council, in addition to Major Biddle, will be here for the meeting meet-ing Monday. Billy Roche, the New York referee, who is a Knights of Columbus secretary, came here -today to find cy.it if Ric,kard and the two fighters will allow a set of films to be sent to Europe after' the fight for American soldiers there. . No. decision was made today. , . mrn I fiw rt ripped. Me has soma f-t 'jvr:' '.-hj-r. acUor.r. and hips. The hoxir.g he is (loin--- is of the same vp? a that done at K Paso. At Kl I-.-so mv thomrht was: "This h? not ilhi-it.g- it is p;;iy." Willard keeps FmihnS a : . 1 1 rare I v suc:r.p to e x i e n d h : rn se ' f . , Voti k e p t h .nkl n ir. w 1 j y doesn't he' , rini om.-roii v -who can :'L-'nt hard enou-h to make him lt h imself out in euhor nr'f---!:s.- or ilefer.se. but etpecU-i'ily the former'.' for-mer'.' But ther..- Monahan. Hemple ar.d i;.;:i-n arc- no py-nies. They are I'u'-po!;p.'i I'u'-po!;p.'i .six-i"oof er-s of no moan ability, and : f i h f-y ran :i u t make i t any m o r e th.m p!av for Jus.-, whero can he get anybody 1 that can roueh it with him? la Jack's Camp. As soon as the boxing had come to an end at Willard's camp we drove half a mile to the hH-mr-sev camp. Pempsey appears to be in superb physical condition. condi-tion. He spent sevral minutes pulling the weights, punched a heavy bay for a few minutes, then spent a few minutes doing- f.incv punohirr..' of a light ba.Lj and th'-n put on the r loves for two rounds with Terrv Keliar. At the en.l of his workout Dempsey's breathing was quiet and his face gave no evidence or" fatiirue. The cut on his face is entirely healed. On Friday afternoon Dr. C. D. Selhv, former health commissioner of Toledo: Rav Pearson and I went to Willard's camp to examine Jess, with a view to determining his physical condition as compared with that of 1915. four years and three months before, and the effect of work on his heart, respiration and blood pressure. Kximinlne a man tinder the catch-as-cateh-can conditions which prevail on the ruhbint; table presents some difficulties, but the figures given .re practically correct. cor-rect. The first examination was made as he lay stripped on the table. The time was 2: OS o'clock. Mis pulse' was 50- and his respiration 15. His sytollo blood pressure was pulse pressure 42, and diastolic pressure S2. His lun$r sounds were clear and good. His heart beat was very powerful, pow-erful, as well as slow. Blood Pressure Low. There were no heart murmurs and no Irregularity of action. While big- men have normally a slow pulse, Jess's pulse Is slower than the average. The blood pressure Is lower than that of the average aver-age man of "Willard's -nste. In fact, we made his pressure out a shade lower than we made it out 'four years at;o. The blood pressure, ivhile far from be- lns: a perfect test of age, comes nearer being an ape standard than any thin? elbe. Judged by- this standard, Jess has not asred physically in tho interval since the Havana .fight. I doubt whether his waist measure is any greater than it was four years ago. Two weeks ago. when Jess weighed 2v'S pounds, he had a waist mensure of US. At El Paso he weighed 25 pounds, and had a waist measure of 3G. Pie is now down to 250, according to the stories in the papers, and there Is practically no difference between his waist measure and that of 1915. At 2:34 he began shadow bONing in the ring. A, few minutes of shadow boxing was followed by 'nine rounds of fighting with four sparring" partners. In this exhibition there was a good deal of holding, hold-ing, but when one contestant is knocked out, one other shows distinct signs of grogginess, and two others present traceSvOf air hunger it Is fair to Fay that there is considerable action. fie t ween rounds Jess occupied most Of his time shadow boxing. After the boxing he and utes. ThQn cam a set of body-bendin'? exercises, such as I saw him go through with at El Paso. Then Monaghan pelted him In the abdomen with a medicine ball, throwing it with all his power. Jess stood still and took this, just as he stood still wdth hands down and let his sparring partners pelt htm a score of time during the sparrin?. It is evident that Wil'ard expects to take a lot of punishment, since he lets himself be struck, and struck hard, on the ahdomen, the chest, the neck, and even the head. , Breathing Easy. At the end of the exercises, he was not breathing labored in any degree, his face did not indicate fatigue or. air hunger, ; and. rather strange to say, he was perspiring verv little. His exhibition was over at 3:13 thirty-nine thirty-nine minutes in the ring. By the time his face had been mopped, his body covered cov-ered by a robe and he had walked some distance to his nibhing-room, a number of minutes had gone by. We reached his rtibblng-tablfe and began be-gan with his pulse, at 3:22 p. m. It was 94. "Heart sounds clear and bell-like. Heart beat regular.- It held between 92 and 94 for several minutes and then gradually dropped. At 3:27 it was S7; at 3:30, 80. At 3:2a the restoration was 16; at 3:26, it was 16: at 329, it was 18. (Jess hes a habit of what might b6 termed snorting, which makes his respiration respira-tion somewhat uneven.) His piEtolic pressure at 3:24 was 134; pulse pressure, 48 ; diastolic pressure, 86. Thirtv seconds later the readings were 130, 44 and 86. re.nectivelv. At 3:25 they were 126, 46 and 80, and at 3:26, 124, 46 and 7?. respectively. The rise in pressure under exertion was verv slight. The conclusion at which t arrived is that Jess Wit-lard is in better physical condition than he was at El Paso, So far as I can determine by physical ex amination and after work, he has not gone back in four yars. The conclusion which Dr. Selby and I arrived at is that Jess has an exceptional exception-al strong,- steady heart, is well-nigh free from nerves, is exceptionally placid and calm, and has a normal blood pressure. On Friday. June 20, he was in excellent condition. Plainly he. is pointing himself so that be will be at prime ' on July 4-It 4-It can safely he predicted that on that date he can stand twelve rounds of much .faster-stepping than he went through the nine rounds on June 20. He, does not give the impression of being be-ing tn. any danger r.f goin-rstnle or get, tine- on edge. In this art!e I make no predictions as to the fight. I know nothing of the pugilistic ability of either man., Mv function Is to give an oninion as to the physical fitness of Jess Willard. |