Show DOWNINGS DOWNING'S s FIGHT D D' D 0 OPE CI ii z t ji By Hardy K Downing J t j TACK JACK KEARNS manager of Champion Jack Dempsey has hadJ had bad 1 J JACK another change of heart about letting his ch champion mee meet any of the colored fighters He TIe has given out the report the champion has drawn the color line and will not meet either Wills consideration even so BO far as to tos or Jack Johnson under al any y going s c that Dempsey would not meet Johnson for any amount of of nl ne r even if they vere were dead broke There There's Theres is really nothing strange about Kearns Kearns' attitude although h ame out with the statement several months ago when t they hey first started their vaudeville tour that the champion would not draw the pi line line and would meet either cither Wills or Johnson if the public wanted such a match His statement at that time was no doubt a f feeler l r to find out ut whether public sentiment would stand for a match with either of the big blacks and now that it has become et evident dent that there is no demand for either of these matches it is is oily J natural for Kearns to make a popularity play giving as his r reason ason for so do doing that it is for the good of the boxing game In It is no doubt for the good of th the game all right especially as as' as the public showed very ery plainly that it did not want either match at atch h but it was not until after Kearns saw there would be no big money Ploney in such matches that he discovered it might hurt the boxing ng game Kearns is a pretty shrewd fellow and will no doubt get a lot lotmore ot more mone money with the champion before he lie has been relegated to the he pugilistic scrap heap but if ever a man comes along black or white white whom the public demands that Dempsey meet and which would add another couple hundred thousand to the Kearns- Kearns 15 Dempsey bankroll just lay a little bet that Kearns will be the fit first F one one t to say Well VeIl if the public wants it bad enough let it have were we're re re reedy 3 J. J Dempsey is is a real champion and to my way of thinking one or othe the greatest if not the greatest pieces of fighting machinery ever knew and fears no man black or white but dallying with the color line will not add to h hrs his s popularity beat George Cook the Australian Aus- Aus HE ease with which Georges Carpentier Carpenter T I heavyweight champion in London last Thursday night was was wa S a ahard SI I hard blow to the English fight fans who were pinning their ther faith fath to tc I the big Australian They hoped to reestablish themselves as contenders contenders con con- tenders in the world of Had Cook been fortunate to have beaten Carpentier decisively in the early rounds they would have at least had a man whom they could boast of as being a worthy opponent for foi Dempsey and would woId have no doubt been match with the champion eore I Ivery very long bu but that hat i is all a dream m now and Dempsey is is Probably j as sorely rely I disappointed as anyone for there isn't another man in sight at the Present I time who could be nursed into a match with him that would draw any money He will probably have havo to continue his hs vaudeville stunt or get back into the movies and wait for someone to develop t tithe rhe longer they keep Dempsey on the shelf for lack of material to fight Jimi the easier easier he is going to be to beat when the time comes and that's boUt t the only way he will be beat at least for a number of years t e MEYERS the Pocatello lightweight or rather junior lightweight who has been everything that has been beon sent against against him in m I Pocatello and elsewhere and who recently defeated Midget Smith in in a local ring was ordered to take a much needed rest after his hs bout here o and nd has been taking life easy but his manager manag r Frank Watson says he is all O. O K again now and will start training again in in a few days for a matah In In Pocatello the first of next month Promoter C. C E. E Stone pher of f Pocatello is now angling for a suitable opponent for for Meyers but up to date e has hs made made no definite arrangements Y DAVIS and his brother Eph Tommy Gethan returned from NewN New NewYork KID York last Friday and although well pleased with his trip and the I N treatment he received along the Great White Way he was gl glad gIld d to get back and Broadway will probably see no more of him Lou the other local youngster who accompanied Davis to NewYork New NewYork I York Vork remained there and has an excellent opportunity to make good if he can keep from getting homesick and sticks it out I have often mentioned the fact in these columns that New York is is a champions champion's town and that the rest of the boys who went there were chasing I a rainbow and Davis substantiates my my arguments to the letter v There are thousands tot not hundreds of fighters in in New York at the Present time and the boys who are fortunate enough to get matches at the I Garden are the only ones who are getting anything for their services and I IH H how HW they all make a living is s a mystery n Davis stated that outside of the Garden none of the shows in the I armories or other clubs were drawing r wing and that the local boys here were drawing down two and three times as much money for boxing six rounds I they are are there for ten and advised the boys to stay away from New York Davis and were fortunate in being sent in right and had letters I and recommendations that got them an audience with rex Tex Tax Rickard and Leo P. P Flynn that eventually got Davis a match with Abie Goldstein in the Garden and placed d under uder the personal supervision of Flynn to be nursed along until such a a time as they feel he is ready to take on the I too t e l. l both boys DOyS made macia a big nit nil in in the ine big Dig town town but put DUL they ney use Only only champions and championship contenders at Madison Square Garden and ad there are are so many of this class of men there that at best beat they can only figure on getting a aT match about once in a couple of months While Davis lost his match to Goldstein when the club doctor stopped th the bout in the sixth round on account of his seconds being unable to stop the flow of blood from his nose he stated that he was not even hurt and begged the referee to let him continue and is confident that he would have not t only stayed the ten rounds but would have won Davis Davis' story is substantiated by a personal letter from a disinterested spectator who wrote this department to the effect that the local boy was not really hurt that he had ad got the worst of the breaks in the bout and he would have won had it been allowed to continue although he does not censure the doctor OJ stopping the bout for the looks of th the thing While I was was' under the impression that Davis had weakened himself making the weight in that match he declares he made the weight without a bit of trouble and was in the best shape of his life Davis speaks very highly of his treatment there after his credentials got working but says there was no money to unade be-unade there excepting by the real champions f 4 e L LOU OU has not landed a match at the Garden as yet and probably wont won't for some time but he has an opportunity of a lifetime lime if he can content himself to be nursed along until he is d developed and ready for the VV Although he has not had a bout in the E Edt East st he was given the once e over by Leo P. P Flynn who has a string of about seventy fighters and acts as matchmaker for Tex Rickard at the Garden Und l looked so good or rather looked like such a good prospect that Fl nn has taken him in charge and is going to tc give him a three months' months schooling under Philadelphia Jack OBrien O'Brien after which JiA figur s s' s he will be ready t to start his climb towards the top Flynn Flynn realizes that is s just a bo boy and that he is not sufficiently matured to battle successfully with the at the present time and told him that unless he was willing to take his time and get the proper schooling he had better return home V 1 1 was not too enthusiastic over the prospect of not not getting I into action right a away asay ay but finally decided to stick it out He has 1 taken right into Flynns Flynn's home and will be watched over like of the family and will have everything that he be needs I It is Pf pretty ity hard lIard to make these youn youngsters see the wisdom of waiting aLI I am a little afraid that if he doesn't get action of s some some me kind fore long he will become disgruntled and come back but he is I making aking the mistake of his life if he does for as I have told him tune twe and again he is only a mere boy nd if he is not Careful he heill I ill vill till be a has been before he is matured e If lf Flynn matches him at all for several weeks it will probably b be with some inferior boy somewhere outside of N New eW York where hi hiIs is almost a cinch to win and if he be does does' that and the boy is there it would not surprise me to see him fighting for the featherweight championship within the next two years I While Flynn is a busy man and does not give the aver average ge under his management much personal attention the fact that he has taken into his own on home and giving him his personal supervision would indicate that the local boy is all that w ever said eaid of him and one of the best looking prospects in the country today A u i. i |