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Show DEMPSE! LOSES PUNGHING BAGS Wells and Rioux Pull Up SttJcet and Go iARATOOA BPrtlNOrl. K. T-. Aug f 2. -Jack Dempaey, world's hsavy-weight hsavy-weight champion, today facea th rropoct of slackening nla training 1 n prsparatloa for his fifteen-round , rontst with Luis Angel Flrpo at New York Hep t ember 1. duo to thai lack of sparring partners, Tho two heavyweights In camp Oeorg Clo.lfrey, a XZs-pound negro, and Jack Burks of Flttsburg still1 aro suffering from th training I siege thsy wgnt through while i Dempaey was preparing for his Fourth of July match wltk Oihboas at- ehelby,' Mont - Dempaey piaas to exercise caution with thorn so they will bo In oonditlop. to withstand a battering during tha flna two weeka of training. -' Billy Wells, British welterweight r ham pi on. lett last night. Ho has a bruised loft hand anJ, . prhably would, bo uaabl to fee LHmptMy for gt least; two weeks. Jule Ktoua, th French-Canadian lumberjack, who decided a ring fu-tt.ro fu-tt.ro would b mer attrnctlv than falling trs. aJao la among ths missing, bnt aft ay a few practise rourvde against tho champion. Dompsey. with tho aam llttl negro ne-gro cook tin had In camp at Great Falls, Mont., -whit training for Gibbons, Gib-bons, couple a flv-room cottage, w hlio hta sparring partnsra arc ouartsred in an adjoining cottage of atx rooms. Too champion' cot -tags Ig surrounded with a high wirsl fencb A btg sign reading rlvat No Admlttaac'' warms vlsltora to keep out. Iempsy ts not satlsflJ with th IKing conditions, as, th rottagre 1 without a baik or other modara cuasalenocs. |