Show 13 k ij n tt By By- Frank Prank 1 K Baker Telegram Sports Editor Lovinsky May Be With Dempsey Now that thal Chicago's reformed fish peddler Sir Sir King is Levinsky-is is basking basking bask bask- ing mg in the limelight of a synthetic victory over Jack Dempsey it is only natural that the qu question stion of a rematch should arise Picture a warm worm summer evening ome some time in June or ot July in Soldiers Soldier's field along Chicago's lakefront t. t Let your imagination wander a bit more and fill that stadium to the last scat seat with perspiring sleeved shirt-sleeved humanity humanity human human- ity and put Dempsey and Levinsky in the t e ring for a ten tea Fight promoters would call it a natural It doesn't seem right that a second second- rater would draw such crowds but the Windy City is wildly enthusiastic over I the King The former champion champions ss 5 s still champion of or the the bo box office e attractions and aud Thursdays Thursday's s fiasco Ic is wh in ideal appetizer for the fans like to see sec Dempsey in a real trial Tour Proving Hard HardOn HardOn I On Maulers Mauler's Stamina Dempsey's tour of f fights with its jumps in Pullmans late hours change in diets and encounters against nondescript non non- fighters in various tank towns lowns throughout tile the country is un undoubtedly undoubtedly undoubtedly un- un making makin it hard for or him to stay oitay in the best of condition An exhibition tour is an unprecedented unprecedented unprecedented dented method of g getting into condition condition condition condi condi- tion for Cor a 3 cr crack ck n at t th the heavyweight weight I crown cro tut then Dempsey is an un un- Individual so far lar as the fight game goes A restless bundle o of nervous en enerI energy en- en erI ergy the Utah Mauler has given the heavyweight division more color than anybody since Jim Corbett so It hardly hardly hardly hard hard- ly behooves to criticise one who has enhanced the sport so well Demp Dempsey ey as a mere exhibitor against mediocre opponents gives the fans a better run for their money than many of the so called gladiators who take their work so seriously Still If Jack is to make a L crack at something worth while this summer Its It's high time he hc cancels his trooping around over the country and settles down to rigorous rigor rigor- ous and systematic training In some secluded camp awa away from the howling mob He lie weighs around now and Is In surprisingly surprisingly sur sur- good physical shape hape and andis is b lean Iran and hard Yet an attack of ot flu put him to bed for tor four tOUT days das when s he was In Reno three weeks ago and he was still stIn weak uk eak from It a few days later when he worked out lightly here in Salt Lake Mauler Taking Lots of Punishment It seems that the Mauler is taking a terrific amount of punishment on this his third comeback tour He took a black eye cye and a cut lip as souvenirs souvenirs souvenirs sou sou- of or a 3 couple of bouts in Milwaukee Mil Mil- waukee in one of which Buck Everett Everett Ev Ev- Ev- Ev erett of Gary Ind md nailed him just about whenever he pleased He H had a rough time of it against K O. O Christner until he put the former former for for- I mer ncr rubber worker away He has moved up a notch in the quality o of his opponents and is being beine pounded around by bj s strong rong young oune m men n who would have been setups for him i few years ago That of course again is a mark of his sincerity of or intention He would hardly go to in there and take lake a a. a beating around the head such as he is getting get get- ting tirig these days unless he really has his heart set upon a real comeback Jack Knows Hes He's I Short Distance Fighter No one knows better than Jack himself that he is a short distance battler Asked recently about Sharkey Sharkey Sharkey Shar Shar- key or or- as an opponent he said Thais what Im I'm trying tring to find out now I know Im I'm a short distance fighter now who couldn't go in there for ten rounds against guys like lile that thai But after this trip is over 1 I will wil know After all that it doesn't f seem scorn logical that ho he should even dream of regaining the title especially after falling fallinI to beat in four rounds But It Is an ever ever- present feeling in the minds of all champions no no matter what the sport that sport that they're not as old or near through as thc they really are arc In other words a champion persists persists per per- In the right to be bc knocked out and Dempsey seems headed toward exercising that tive Uve |