Show 4 4 4 4 II 4 4 4 NOTED FIGHT IGHT CRITIC CRIT IC ROASTS JACK DEMPSEY FOR REFUSING TO FIGH Tunney Tuey Tasks Talks With Cham Champi 1 But Bt G ts No o i Stall Edgren Says Fitzsimmons Fitzsimmons' Fitzsimmons Is Probably Stal for Dempsey Who Has Been Only By Robert Edgren Edgren- ii Gene Tunney wintering in Florida plays a lot of golf anc and p II every day around a golf course keeping in very fa fair r condition waiting for fOl something to break in the way of a match for tor heavyweight championship This week Tunney weighs p poj stripped He has been growing steadily and is now three po heavier than Dempsey was when he beat Willard As Gene is m in hed he'd enter the ring very near this weight As part of his t ting tring ting tr t ing Tunney eats only two meals a day which is quite quite the rt mo m idea of getting enough and not too much He carries no excess Wf we weThe weThe The constant running golf boxing with Willards Willard's old p par r Walter Monaghan at Walters Walter's outdoor outdoor out out- door training school for millionaires million million- aires and swimming in inthe the surf Is Isa isa a a. perfect training schedule for a aman aman aman man who wants to gradually in increase increase increase in- in crease his physical powers Tunney's clean living has had much to do with his steady improvement improvement im- im provement as a boxer He lie never did have any use for the white lights or the red lights either Tunney met Dempsey while the champion was as In Florida and anc nd talked a little about fighting but didn't get any substantial You can q quote ote me me says Tunney Tunney Tunney Tun Tun- ney when 1 I sa say that T r I looked Dempsey over over- very cal carefully fully that he looks look's s In wonderfully goo good l conditio condition con con- that I think he could be fit to fight tight at any time with two weeks of training and that I dont don't believe hell he'll ever get into a ring again I dot don't expect ever er to be any better than Ill I'll be bo next summer I Iam Iam Iam am confident that I can beat peat Demp Demp- sey Two years ears ago I would not have been ready for JackI Jack I 1 know m my own condition better than anyone else and no manager ever rushed me into a fight tight I knew I was right when I met Gib Gib- bons boos I r knew positively that Tom that Tom could not stop me and that I would stop TomI Tom I feel the same sahle way now about Dempsey The one thing L L. cant can't understand understand under under- stand Is how the public permits Dempsey to hold the title without defending It TIRED OF W WAITING I have done everything possible to get Dempsey into the ring with wah me Naturally I 1 would rather have this bout than any other but I am tired of ot waiting I would like to meet Wills but Billy Gibson has been unable to sign him to a a. contract Ive I've reached the point where its it's hard to get good matches Young Stribling Strib Strib- ling has made a lot of mone money but doesn't s seem em anxious to tc do much fighting except In matches that are practically exhibitions Everybody wants to talk and nobody wants to fight The most likely ely opponent fo fome for forme forme me Is Berl Berlenbach Paul is now up around pounds and Is becoming more dangerous all the time I live have a lot of ot respect for or Berlenbach Berlen Berlen- bach as a fighter and Id I'd like to meet him in the ring That wouldn't be any exhibition bout Berlenbach would have everything everything every every- thing to win an and nothing to lose in ina ina ina a bout with me while if I lost Id I'd have to hang up my gloves Paul still has the worlds world's light heavy weight title and wouldn't be riskIng riskIng risking risk- risk Ing it in a heavyweight bout Im I'm I out of the light heavyweight clau clail and have been out of it for over a year ear through growing bigger and putting on more weight Paul has said he would meet ma me in June Juno and I believe this match would fill any anyone one of New Yorks York's ball parks parIs as we both have hae big lo local local lo- lo cal followings What hat I want now is action I wont won't nt be satisfied until I win the old title FIGHTS EXHIBITIONS Has Tunney the right dope when he says Dempsey Dempse wont won't fight Dempsey has been turning loose a lot lot o of fighting talk for several months months and and nothing eing but talk Even ven the best friends of the heavyweight heavy heavy- weight champion who were sure he would Jump at a I. I chance to defend III his title against Tunney Wills anyone else as soon as he wasi of Kearns Kearns' contract complicate are beginning to doubt that Ie Dej sey really Intends to fight again garn garnIn In Los Angeles Jack Doyl r resenting relenting a number of ot business who want to promote a wo war wor championship match in the Ih Ii Coliseum asked Dempsey would accept an offer olter of hal liat million dollars to fight ten ro rounds to a derision decision tern bel Dempsey turned mere million half n and set as his figure offering to give of ot that to charity if it the thO t would add a like sum cond conditions including p ment In advance posting O off balance of the before bout out a percentage of the gate went vent over a million and a 11 and other details were not left q to argument Doyle carried De Desey's De sey's soy's proposition to the w promoters and they threw up UPI ti hands wit Dempsey told Doyle that his e tract with Promoter Floyd Fitzs Fitzs' Fitzsmons mons In Chicago had be been n cancas cancas cance as Fitzsimmons had not carried any of or its provisions coveri covering i string of ot advance paymentS lj that he was friendly with Fit mons an and wanted anted to give chance in the world He t to wire Fitzsimmons an and gl give ten days in n which to raise rals funds to go on with the conti cont Doyle to let the Los Ang le rest until Fitzsimmons had ei i made good or dropped out in ten days allowed him Dempsey went to Florida bo 12 bo some exhibitions and made aj l thousand dollars and then w went nt boxing exhibitions with a lot of oti ond and rate heavyweights In TO lot places In Denver February 1 knocked out four tour of ot these set seti set set-i made one orie quit In a round a and d Farmer Fanner Lodge o of St St. Paul staY him two rounds This was workout for Dempsey If it he w to exercise his kayo punch would be quite was matched for tor a champion champions fight later In the year ear But D Dw sey has apparently been en content conten date with what he can Pick i the exhibition stuff Promo from Philadelphia went vent to toW down South with a proposition a fight with Wills wms In and according to published re reo o Dempsey informed them that thad they wanted to make with Fitzsimmons to hold th the in Philadelphia it would be lie right light as Fitzsimmons had him der contract and was the on one M decide where an and when Demp ems would fight Wills MAY BE STALLING I It looks ver very much as if it itz mons mona is stalling for forand De and as If it Dempsey Dempse has no Intent Intend to fight again but Is j clean up as much as he can ins in while the talk of fight is holding public attention So fa far 1 Dempsey Dempse has been bluffing No one but Dempse B l probably Fitzsimmon whether he Intends to defend kin kin- heavyweight title tHIe or to clean what money he can car carand and go ba bathe bac the pictures res Theres There's nothing indicate that Dempsey means fight His holding out for F Fi simmons as its promoter looks nothing but bt a stall It can l he harj be anything else The wide knows that Fitzimmons h hems ha j ha-j Continued on page 4 TUNNEY TALKS Continued from page 2 been able to handle the contract so far or to find a a. place wh where re the fight can be held and that Fitzsimmons mons mona in any case hasn't the record of It a Tex Rickard as a successful promoter of championship affairs There are only two ex explanations of Jack Dempsey's failure to defend the championship He Is talking fight tight and doing nothing to hold the title and keep up the lucrative occupation of being worlds world's champion without fighting again Or he is trying to outdo Jack Kearns as a business man and show ho Kearns Kearn up as S a smart manager by getting more money for his next fight than Kearns ever thought of getting People who know the business bus bus- iness incas affairs of Dempsey and Kearns say that Dempsey was waa the thereal thereal thereal real business man of ot the combination tion and Kearns was the gambler Kearns would always take a flyer at anything from race tracks to real estate Demps Dempsey y t put ut his money mon mon- ey Into real estate and bonds exclusively ex cx elusively and always made a profit Dempsey tells a a. story that illus illus' illustrates his alertness in money mat mat- He says sas that In the couri cours of or going through a a. number of ot fights tights and into various enterprises together th he lie figured Kearns was about ahead of ot him on the balance sheet It was all aU right of ot course and would proba probably ly b be straightened out In time but Dempsey was taking no change of ot otan an argument So just before the FIrpo fight he went to Tex And told Tex that the check cheek must be made out In the name of Jack Dempsey After Arter the tight fight D Demp- Demp mp- mp fiey rey ey banked the check cheek and handed Kearns his share less Jess the amount lemp Dempsey Demps y fi figured would balance their account It Is possible that Dempsey is now stalling until he can get a 8 purse that will prove him a a. smarter manager manager man man- ager niter than Kearns That would ex explain explain ex- ex plain his training and keeping In condition as if Ie he Intended to fight again But the public Isn't Int interested rested in ina a It champions champion's business affairs If It Dempsey doesn't prove his willingness willing willing- ness to take on a A. rea real battle ver very vero soon Coon pome flome more active fighter will take his place as recognized cham chain pion Copyright 1926 by the Belt Bell Syndicate Syndi S cate Inc |