Show Dempsey's Dempsey s 's Mother Answers Many Disputed Questions I By W. W D. D B B. S 0 CARCEL Y a day passes that does not bring me some k- k inquiry about Jack Dempsey Salt Lakes Lake's new heavyweight heavyweight heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champion They come through the mail over the phone and verbally Most of them are questions which have been answered a dozen times but some of them are evidently still causing dispute This mornings morning's mail brings a letter from a Rube Bennett of Chicago who says Please write me a letter over your own wn signature setting out that Jack Dempsey is a Salt Lake boy so that I can settle seUle a lot of argument The Ogden Standard wants to know it a fact that Hyrum Dempsey is Jacks Jack's stepfather and that the fighters fighter's real name i is i. not Dempsey In order to to settle all arguments at once therefore the writer has hu interviewed Mrs Celia Dempsey Jacks Jack's mother Mrs Dempsey has answered all questions and if there is one person in the world who should be able to settle these arguments it is the boxers boxer's mother In brief here is the dope on the new champion His name is William Harrison Dempsey Born at Manassa Manas a Colo in m 1895 I Son of Hyrum and Celia Dempsey Mother and father both hail from Logan county West Virginia Parents claim no relationship with the McCoys or other famous mountaineers of West Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia as related in a West Virginia dispatch y yesterday Parents came to Utah taking up their residence at Provo from Manassa when William Harrison was but a achild achild achild child and nod resided at Provo until the boxer was about 12 years old Since leaving Provo the family has always lived in Salt Lake The fighters fighter's parents now live on South State street William Harrison Dempsey has four brothers and nd three sisters |