Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-08-19 | Page 19 | Dempsey Learns Willard Wash Easy Compared with Bouts with Gin Champs

Dempsey Learns Willard Was Easy Compared With 1 Bouts With Gin Champs By HENRY McLEMORK . United Trtm S porta Writer NEW YORK, Aug;. 19 (UP) Jack Dempsey is quietly foint: nuts. He told me so himself. , You might almost say the one-time heavyweight champion ie- going from soup to nuts, because it is the business of running a res- taurant Jack Dempsey's, where 50th crosses Eighth avenue thaC ku him Knh.hnh.hohKlntf on his heels. Deep In a. corner of his tavern, where the shadows mads him Indistinguishable Indis-tinguishable to autograph seekers, Jack told me of"-! , Law the miseries that have beset him since he became t the town's best - -- known host two years ago. i He's going crasy t from shaking t hands," smiling. " shaking hands, V "TT smiling and ahak- VV, ing bands some more. f ' He's going crasy from writing, over and over again: -C3 o o d luck, 1 Jack Dempsey." Dempsey "To my old pal Jos Gluts, Jack Dempsey." "Best wishes, Jack Dempsey." He's going crasy from dodging women who want to kiss him, guys who want to put the bite on his bank roll and 14-karat nuts who want to sell htm everything from oil wells to reversible bow ties. And worst of all he's going crazy from gents who, Inspired by a drink or two at the ba(, walk up to him and start throwing punches. "They're the want those aloe-nolle aloe-nolle champions," Jack alghed, "Not a day paaees but en of them, usually to shew eff, grabs me by the arm and, with a "so yea think yoa're tough, ehf rnrhea me with a right er left, ever hit one af 'em yet, bat I'm telling yea I never wanted to hit that Willard at Toledo as much aa I have wanted to let si few ef those baMee have left book aa : the kisser. " "They yank ma around, punch me around and then, when I dont da' anything, say: " "T. knew yon never could flghC you big bumf "If I hit 'era I might kill 'am. Ift don't, they go away thinking they're-world they're-world champions." Punched a Noes ' Only a few days ago. Jack told m he was standing across the street. in front of Madison Square Garden: when a big fellow with a beautiful clove breath walked up and punched; him In the nose. "I ahoved him off and starts running across the street toward, the restaurant, because I didn't wane-to wane-to hit him. He came right behlnf me, straight on Into the kitchen. We played tag In there for a few mlnC utes, knocking ever pots and paa and everything else. JZ "Finally I managed te get Into- my offlee and leek the deer. Whesj the eepe got there he was Just puu Ing a gua a yard leag and threat enlng te sheet the doer dowv Crasy aa a leoa. Told the eepe be had wanted to kill me aver since I cost him dough by losing -te Tanner." - , - Jack shakes hands from nooa uir til midnight His food Is as good aa you'll find In New York, but there's no denying that the thousands thou-sands who patronise his place each day are drawn by the lure ef his name. "I shaks so many hands and anile Contlnusd OS Following Pf Pinney Club Bows In Title Battle (OoetHMMS from Pieeaetos ragal 10-5. Milt Qulgley led the winners with two singles and a pair of doubles. Ostler Candy downed Firmage 11-4 aa Harry Ostler pounded two homers hom-ers over the fence. Clare Evans gathered two for four aa Lang Welding overcame Utah Oil 1-4. rmNir i iquitablc Lire HO Al BHOA areMaw. I 1 I rjxrraaaoa .2100 a aimmoiia 3 0 3 0 Salry .1 3 1 1 Kod KmsM 3 10 1 Thomaa ... .1 1 AO rant! 3 I B 0 Thurman ..3101 ?.i.o Salt 1 i i I Hardy 3 110 allli 3 3 3 0 ji.Bnaoa . , lit) ruiphKiislK 3 1 0 0 Maw 3 0 10 :itrra .314 O'Kallcy . . . 1 6 0 f ummarhjrs 3 1 4 0 . DunloB. . 3 11:10 wiacoene . f i 0 0 Quasaraoe . t 1 0 0 Luua ... 5 0 1 1 Totals . 3 SIS Totala . 3T 21 2 Flntiay .... ,040 310 O 3 , ttqiiltakM Lift 310 041 S kurnniary: atrrors -Wlacomb, B Dunlop. Tltraa-baaa Bit - S. Frama. Two.baaa hit a - -SrhmucNar. Kod XnlBbt. Callla. Summer-haya, Summer-haya, Thomaa, Tniirman. Hardy; Xm Ballay, Bert Duulnp. Cradlt victory lo Oundaraun. Char dtlaat ! Wlacomb. "tni'-a out By Wtaromb 1. Oundaraoa 10. Baaae on Sana till Wlaeoaa. . til. H. K ans S 3 3 nh on 4 e s Deimarr and Huber; Ulehardjoe, Dona a d Btauaoa. Jauaaa. R. H. E flanarel laetrw 10 13 3 IHah Powar ,...3 S 1 w. St.,, aae Piatt; Oawalo. Stawait aad uamoMTfeajra. Oatlar Oaeey 11 13 1 aTlrmaga 4 S 1 rorabarf anS Oatiar: Janklna and Hasan.