| Show V Dem Dempsey p y Received 5 for First Go Battled Two Buoys BOys in Ring Debut Hardy D Downing Pro Promotes otes Contest By Lm Len Lin Crone 10 Way ay back in tho summer of ono Apdy Andy Maloy blew Into Salt Lake Lalo from the tho middle west t. t unannounced unan and practically unknown Being a pugilist by Inclination Andy called ailed up p Hardy Ie IC Downing who vas vaa promoting weekly tight light c cards at tho the old Salt SaIL L Lake ko and other heat res and asked d for tor a a. light I ht which h he received S I I 1 got gol a a. hu husky ky kl kid with me mc lardy hardy z Mr Ir Malloy l lloy then lie Ho Hoooks like a real scrapper scrapper better better uj use e him too Sure c comes m s back Har Hardy Ill ln gho sno him bun two and a half if Ithe he wants to o go on In one of or my three round curtain raisers ralser What's his name Jack Dempsey hollers holler Andy Gwan says MYS lIard Hardy But bring him lim up anyway I ONE PUNCH ENOUGH So William Harrison Dempsey later to become the worlds world's heavy y ch champion entered his first ring tins Hardy Hardye cant can't e nt Just remember r rho who ho the pug lug was that Jack tackled that hat time but it really doesn't mater mater mat mat- er er cr because ho took Just nb about one punch from tho big bIS husky kid and kl sd rd the cam canvas camas as Th Then n Hard Hardy discovered that hii his matchmaker had hOld tried a Q little war act by matching two Hancock ck brothers In another pr prelim As lardy hardy never nc cared carell much for for fop lam fam- ly ily rows ho lio called Jack back Into he tuG i 11 ring Ing and shoved ved one ono brother out l leaving Mr Kid Hancock wondering won won- dering w what C was ns What came was a a. pack of ot one Mr I Demp's Demps Demp- Demp sey s 's s fists and Kid Kill Hancock went wenton on the thc r record c ord books as ns tho first official cial dat kayo of ot tho the coming champion Dunno the why the kid only lasted part of ot th the first round But Dut that was vas a a little b better than the the unknown known hero who curled after a a. p punch maybe so 60 tho records started with Han Ran cock So year 19 William Harrison Harrlson but's Dempsey Dempse dr drew w a nice little pa pay paycheck paycheck che check k of 5 for hs his first evening Inthe In Jn the ring JACK STICKS AROUND Jack liked that easy mone money and stuck around letting Hardy match him with a lot of or boys bos Most generally generally gen gen- en- en he h murdered them quick and unmercifully but sometimes he toy toyed oyed d around a a- little mUe b bc before re rc sending them hem away t to the arnica bottle And he the big husky kid showed a a. lot o ot of class right front from the start J Just st as asa asa asa a sample of ot his rapid Improvement Hardy tells tells how he matched Jack with a Q foxy veteran Jack Inck Downey of oC D Denver nver In In fact tho the two boys bos pummeled each other three times within a period of ot a a. few months Tho first time the Denver vet got a 8 1 ln round a 8 round four nd bout then bout then Dempsey trained awhile and learned a 8 and lot lot and got a draw with Downey He lIe murdered Do Downey ney for two rounds rounds Hardy says blew higher than a Lindbergh dream But Bul in their third match Jack kayoed the Ja Jack JacIc from Denver in just two rounds Dempsey didn't havo bavo a regular ma manager manager-in ger ln those days das da s until Jack Price Irice a law brother of oC Hardy and pal at al of ot Dempsey Dempse took tool hold of ot the tho Kid and Tand t took ok him to fo New V e York Tork There Jack walloped Andy nd Ander Anderson son son and Wild Ild B Bert rt Kenney each by three three round ka kayos os and then had his heart icart broken by losing a n newspaper d decision In a scrap with John Lester Los Los- ter cr Johnson J huson tile tho J e big tough colored hombre lombre who ho didn't like Uke anybody in those days That scrap was held before before be be- be fore tore th tho club or oC tho the late John John the B Barber and Jawn ISO so liked the Utah mauler that ho lie attempted to to and and did sign dill sign Del Dempsey to a n. contract But Jack Uko liko Jawn IS sri so he c blew V the Great White Way and cam CAme j back to Salt SnIt Lake contract contractor or no io contract KE KEARNS TAKES HOLD And BO so it went went Jack Jack everything vez thins that cl came me his lila wn way but s 's DO YOU REMEMBER REMEMBER- Jack Dempsey when the ex ex cx- worlds world's heavyweight champion 1 fought his first bout and re received received reo re 5 from Hardy Downing in 1915 X J 2 c ci i fr b. b F 1 l F r r. t. t fJ t S t tt t- t i. i t S w Sw 3 j 1 c fJ z rl 4 t 1 r i l llie 4 e 1 r 1 r i s lie he never r could couI got get alo along very wellor well wellor ell ellOr or very l long ng With his managers un- un 1 Jack Kearns 1 picked 1 Up the husky bo boy and nursed lm into th tlC the he heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- n.- n. weight championship But when maudlin thousands acclaimed acclaimed ac ac- ac- ac claimed his hla triumph over Willard Willard- when later laler other thousands cheered cheer d dIS as IS he ho battled to victory o over or r the chall chahl challenge is of or the Jie world vo wo bet that Ja Jack k funn smiled d a Q little as he thought of hla pulses fit and turned his fancy anc back to to that mst lit night In the and ring and It Its pay check k S |
