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Show Dempsey Backers Are Taking All Willard Coin Staff Correspondent Universal Service. TOLEDO, 0., June 22. Betting on the struggle between Jess Willard and Jack Dempsey for tho world's heavyweight heavy-weight boxing championship, July 4, will k'ct under way in Toledo tomorrow tomor-row with tho fighters at even money, and take your pick. That's the information infor-mation given out tonight by C, H. Chrysler, who is one of several who will" book on the battle right here on the scene. Boards will go up all over tho downtown district during the week aud two aro certain to start business tomorrow. One of them will be conducted by Chrysler at the Waldorf hotel. Colonel Joe Miller of 101 ranch fame, who tried to stage a fight between be-tween Willard and Fred Fulton and failed after matching the men, is backing back-ing Chrysler. The bookmakers plan right off the reel to take all the money they can get at evens and allow the bettor to choose his man. It is not like a race. There are only two in the ring. The bookmakers are not worrying much about the price. The only thing that will go up tomorrow is 1 to 5 that Willard Wil-lard (Iocs not answer tho bell for the seventh round. It docs not mean that Dempsey will finish Jess in six rounds. Jess may lo in such bad shape that when the bell rings atthe end of the sixth stanza, whilo not counted out, ho will be unable to come up for another round. Those who like Dempsey want that extra minuto for Jess to deside that he has had enough of the grueling. There is a preponderance of Dempsey Demp-sey money in Toledo today and this may make him a favorite shortly unless un-less much Willard money shows up presently. Heavy bettors from New York are on the ground and are anxiously anx-iously awaiting the coming of the Texas oil men who are said to be willing will-ing to risk fortuues on tho champion. There is mucn scheming and figuring in the light of percentage betting, sharps trying to get on wagers that will insure a profit one way and no loss at all if they guess wrong. In order or-der to do this, some are betting on both men to win and then gambling on an early victory for Dempsey. The general impression among people who bet for a livelihood is that Dempsey Demp-sey is a good bet if the fight ends quickly, but that if WHlard is going along nicely after five rounds his size and strength will toll the . tale and the Dempsey bolt will be shot. A newspaper writer who hails from Xew York, where most everybody is picking Dempsey, has w-agered $100 to $2000 that Jack wins in one round, and $100 to $1000 that the challenger cops the crown from the Kansas bonnet m two sessions. He thinks Dempsey is the fastest starter extant and that with a good break in tho luck he may roll Jess over in .iig time. One man who is here to get a bet on Dempsey before July 4 in the hope of enriching himself before July 5, was asked how he expected Jack to get past that great left of Willard 's so early in the conflict. "Well," he said, "Fred Fulton was thought to have a greater left than Willard 's. Y'et Dempsey got inside of that and knocked out tho plasterer in 18 seconds. He 'll slip by the Willard left, which looks slow and cumbersome cumber-some to me." |