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Show Let 'Ex Go, and May the Best Man Win, Says Dame By DAMON RUNYON. Unlverial Service etaff Correspondent. TViUUrx"), Ohio, July 3. We have ar-v ar-v rived In a manner at chapter xvll of the First Book of Samuel. You my recall the incident: "And there went out a champion of the camp of the I'hd is tines named Gohatn of Ca',li, of hcht six cubit and a span." He wu. we take It. th-' Willard of his j lime, ari we r.iv no con ,i u.ai as uc went forth, burd- r.ed w r.i. his tattle- . 'lt-n-y and the ew-H dusfrr which weighed five thousar d mekels of brass, the lo-.hy of the Hot, I S'-or of thu period 1 olK-i , .v.!h er;;. -UK-nl as h.s followers shoved roun.l, cr:ng: "Kven ironcy on GoUath;, even rnora-y the big lello.v wins'." H miift have he n a great diy. p. must have hf'n a dn y correspond ;ng in that ; en, to th.s dv in Toledo In the dry state of Ohio. Wc would rot have you understand from the above th.it we are att-.-mptir.g t to ti:aw a parallel re'w-en f.e two occasions occa-sions br-.or.d the fourth verse. Maybe this is the time the current Goliath la si.ii-kinp up acainst the current Payy. "..r wo Id b have vou infer us as ':e-p:c;inc ':e-p:c;inc I-.it MaFterson r Chary O'Pell and FYed Perrv, the "P. K. Kid" from Voiuev club of New York, as Philistines, 1-it bo ausfl thev are chunking their change in on Wibard. But it must have been an occasion of tremendous thrill lnee1 when the ol ) boy w nt clankmp forth frnm his tralninp quarters, bailing at the astonished Israelites: "Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me." Jess Does Some Shouting. Od 'Iv enourrh. Mr. Wiharl. the current roMath is a. .line and abe'ting our simile to no little decree bv doing qu.te a bit of hlV-rinc at this time. It may ra-t be directed rarticularly at the Israelites, though thev come in on it, and it is not exactly of the tenor quoted, but it is none the less a holler. . . . a Mr Willard cannot understand why he jq'not the favorite in the bttmc on the result of his mee'inp with Mr. Dempsey. a-- becomes the champion. H- has been tommentlnsr upon this matter in a fretful mood. It would appear ap-pear that 'I is almost a personal affront to Mr. WIVard. We can scarcely imagine imag-ine the G-diath of old f.yuawl-itng auout the bet tine mart, especially if the critics of the Soeoh Sun and the F.'ah Enterprise and the Az-Mcoh Tribune had stood arqund for weeks panninc his method of petting ready, stinging his legs and roasting his em onnoint. - Mr. Willard would be an easy 2-to-l had h trained in a manner to indicate that he wa propping himself for a real battle. bat-tle. Instead of producing the impress'on, as he wallowed around with his sparring partners. that he was merelv golnp tbrouich 'the motions, to knock off those two-bit admissions to fcis training quarters quar-ters It is said that 5H.000 persons paid to seo Willard work. Pempsey must have d-awn at least as many more, and nt both camps the price c:' ad.niRS'lon was ofen boosted to half a dollar. There never was a sporting proposition so t::or-ourhlv t::or-ourhlv commercialized. In fact, it has been lifted, or lowered, as vou please, from the plane of sporu i to the level of business. Belting quotations .ate this afternoon i showed a stronger WUUrd tone. He may i vet po into tr.e ring a slight favorite, .out i t uuuld not be surpns ng to find me chr.lltr.per in that role when the men are called "together tomorrow afternoon at 3:"u p. m. . At that hour there will be assemb ed the blgeest crowd ever gahered in an in-elosure in-elosure in America to see a sportme evert since the dav the Yale bowl opened at w Havtn. As I recall it. that crowd numbered just a few hundred less than 70.000 people. The crowd tomorrow may be at that mark. However, I note a number of bythe young eentlemen from New York. w r.ose business Is ticket speculative, making a strong effort to get from under on their wares. Thev had loaded themselves up pretty h ea v 11 y . T ol a y t h e y were F ed - 1 dlir.g the pasteboards at a slight discount. dis-count. On the other hand, I know a chap who hoids a S'r? seat and who refused ?1?0 for It. It looks as if the big arena on Mau-mee Mau-mee bay will be packed, and in this event the interest taken will be around a mil-, mil-, lion. j Toledo in Gay Attire. Tonight the streets of Toledo present a carnival appearance. Through the dense crowds, rubbing elbows el-bows with the gents obviously indigenous to the soil of old Ohio, move sporting celebrities from all quarters of the globe. Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion, and Johnny Coulon. the cut by ex-king of the bantams, were seen in conversation with Irvin S. Cobb, the literary lit-erary light. Rube Ferns, who once ruled the welterweight welter-weight division, talked to Philadelphia Jack O'Brien, the old dancing master. Professor Bill Brown, the New York rei'eree, gave a dinner tonight to a bunch of friends at the Toledo club. Brown was strongly favored by Kickcrd and the Pempsey camp to referee the big bout tomorrow, but Willard would not agree. Big Jess, sulky and suspicious, argued nearly ail one night with Riekard out at Willard's house in an attempt to make the promoter the referee, finally winding 1 up with his us'.ial threat to pack up and leave if Tex d:d not serve as the third man in the ring. "All right, leave," said Riekard. Then Jess finally agreed to the arrangement arrange-ment which will prevail tomorrow. Tex was as determined in this Instance as back in the days when he told Joe Cans he would pocket a loss of 5:19. 00 1 rather than insist on "the old marster" making that 133 pounds under the con-I con-I dition imposed by Billy No'an. manager j of Battling Nelson, at Goldfield. "I'm past the age where I can afford j to take a chance on getting hurt in the I ring with those big fellows. '' says Tex. J "Besides. I'm not a referee. "' A delegation of citizens from Ixiwrence. ; Kan., Willard's home town, got in today, letting off the war cry of the Sunflower state college at intervals: "Rock Chalk. "Jay Hawk." One oft hem was giving away $1 bills to advertise the town. A dollar bill is a good advertisement from any town. ; The Lawrence people are betting some 'money on Kansas' s favorite. However, I Howard Nay lor of Kansas City grabbed most of the loose home-town dough some weelts ngo when be bet 'em ! For the first time personal friends of I Jess are now scattered about the premises. prem-ises. Up to this time Pempsey has had a t monopoly on the personal following stuff. ! Big Jess, ever a pugilistic recluse, has I had few intimates here, hut wide-hatted I (Continue-3 on Follo'-vine Page.) THE BEST NUN WIN; jLET 'EH GD. JWD MAY (Continued from Preceding FagM j i westerners are seen here today all over, i Hilly Hutson. Ed Bricken, Ben Strauss, Ti:dy Funk. Wallace RoMnson, Jack Henley Hen-ley "ar.d Jim Corbet : not the original Jim were members of the money-circu-iatins: delegation from Lawrence, ar.d ail Jess's neighbors. Sidestep $1 Bills. t Willie Jno. Reil'.y. Benny Bennett, Silly t Harris. Tamrtiany Your.? and the other .v.t-mbers o: Times Square. .Vcw York, refused re-fused to accept tne 51 bills from the Jay-hawkers. Jay-hawkers. They couldn't believe that anyone any-one would be g-iv.r. money away un.css ; there was some catch to tt. i Lois of peor'.e are an alt in-; for the j oriirma: J:m Corbet t s crack at the resu.t. I It :s reared tney wanted to copper Jim's i rather famous ability for pick::ij- the loser I in a b:--' championship ficr.t. one has to carry a shoe-horn to cet through the jam m the lobby of the Hotel ; Se:-:-r. which, hy comon cc-Uier.:, is fistic I he id i -inters. j It had the pound and atmosphere c f a ! teuir.g rin? abmjt noon to-:iay, and rnouh j mouth wafers were reoorded to cover ire- siate of d.'.io, and stiil leave enwjgh to I lap over into Kentucky. : K:r.Er Lard ner, the humorist, was seen . da-sn.nc about in a w-.lter i perpira-t:on perpira-t:on Irving' to get down another J.r-"j on Wizard Mr. lirdner hae a.rr idy placed five yards on Jes, as the saying is. and .the fact that he id a humorist m . c h t cause h;s lets to be r-carded with s nie , sui-p.iun were he not b-tting real money, i K-al money is not funr.v. even to a i humorist. j Joe Bannon, Dempey's timekeeper, bt Si ' on the challenger before he draw . a i'-nET breath. But tonight it was reported that Wll-: Wll-: lard money had commenced to get out search warrants fr takers. Ja.'k Karna, D-rrpjy'H mar.as-er; J'm-my J'm-my Tie Forest, his trainer, ar.d a cou;.le of the bi.Tck men who have been work;:.? w.fh I'empsey wili be behind him to- . marrow. ' W i ; h W i 1 1 rt rd ill p rob- b 1 ..- or! v ' Monairhan, HmptC and Bill Scott, his , ip.irring partn-rs. In tii-r. a.- in everything else, Wj!!ard prb:tbly w-.il be his o- n bona. He will be ole director of hn corr.er. "V'e shrill know by th: t.m tomorrow r.irht jus: how good his judgment la on : that pomt. j And by this time to nor row right we shall k;w, t "-", w-hf'her hav a 1 heav:.w-M!(;hf rj.ampion of the world, full ! p-:iwjl.-d in vo-rh. or an old one rjuvo-T'-ttd and r"ha bii :t ra- d . ur whether we will iiav hrd lut tw :-.- rounds of noth-; noth-; i j. sr r h :n prtlciilar. j That s a m-nt.fi gho'it a' our ronf-m-piat.'-'n of wh;!'s to be-tomorrow that i ..'i'.'e-r'j-jnd id- a. J T'emr'-V a s rour.ds is th poputar 1 pit k of the people who favor thj chal-lene-r torvght. Will-ird bv a kr.-kout In fhe f;r"t f"w , roii.-i'M or W.llnrd by d-jr;i'-',n if t ttm t h) t'vlv 1 t hf- gues of tr " rhief of the lv,i?.K,vini,i;', rr a in bo'' trn. :,!y g' -; .H I"mi.sey irldp of x. 1 N'.w 'nV. a ku-"( ar.'l u re t.ll not. n f h ' i rn m - r tal word s of the a rr. ti t e 'I B:ilv Jordon: ; "I.'-r r go. "And may the be?t man win." |
