Salt Lake Telegram | 1912-04-12 | Page 11 | Jack Dempsey Was a Real Champ in Ability as Well as in Name

JACK DEMPSEY WAS A REAL CHAMP CHAMPIN IN ABILITY AS WELL AS IN NAME FIGHT FANS PANS TODAY WOULD LIKE TO SEE A REAL MIDDLE WEIGHT WITH UNDISPUTED RIGHT TO THE TITLE Jack Tack Dempsey's title I I What at boxer among all aU the middle middleweights middleweights middleweights weights has cinched it The Tue peerless the Dempsey the nonpareil At one time Dempsey was vas light weight champion and held the tho title too His fighting weight was but pounds When Dempsey was in full flight when ho he was known from the tho Atlantic to the Pacific slope as the most dangerous rapid fighter in the middle middleweight middleweight middleweight weight division the tho honor of this championship cham clam lay between Pete Poto McCoy the tho vicious Boston scrapper La Blanche the tho marine and Dempsey Gingerly this thi trian triangle e of great fi light fight ht ers era hovered ho about the coveted eted title until Until un til Dempsey Demps and McCoy flew together anti and Dempsey whipped McCoy I Coy in m six BIX rounds A Great Groat Battle Then it was Dempsey and La LaBlanche LaBlanche LaBlanche Blanche This marino marine had been touted the country o over or r as a world beater He Ire was 8 the full middle weight limit limit pounds pounds-of o of pow powerful build a rushing whirlwind fi fighter and game to tho the core the Can the old sports remember La Blanche battle on that cold March morning mornin at daybreak rhe The pitched in tho the open at Larchmont Larch Larch- rin ring rini was mont L L. L I. I The Tho fighters and anti party part had been driven from place to place by the pol police Ice P Thc rho men mep fought ht with skin kio ti tight ht gloves cloves Tho The cool calculating cac D toy boat beat tile the the punches with lila his piston I marine to n fl in thirteen rounds i S Since then what middle weights have ha held honest Injun claim to this 1 titIe ti ti- 1 an Bob took it from tIe the touted Dempsey but hut he lie never no the tho Syracuse honor Tommy Tomm Ryan fi fighter went three rounds round of ofa and was with Dempsey fight i a sham shaft triveT cn tho ion Five Fi months later consumption Dempsey was 1 dead le-ad of McCoy Held Title Then thoro there was Kid id McCoy cCoy The Tho kid jerked the middle weight weigh honors hopon from Ryan Evan and was the real holder Bolder of the pound nS-pound belt Jac Jack Root finally defeated McCoy MeCo inI in ina I a 1 decision bout fir first t Root Boot and antl then Geor George e Gardner tried to fit up uj to the a vacant but neither was over ever recognized zed Around St Stanley nc the Butte Butto Mont miner bo boy gathered the famous honor Ketchel and by bv a series of fierce contest tossed tosse Dempsey's wreath backward and forward until it rested with Ketch Ketchel el Stanley is iSI dead and still the tho title bobs from oneto ono one onoto one oneto to another Wee like n a will the A host of middle lo weights now lay claim to it