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Show DEMPSEY, WILLS CONTEST IS ' FLIVVER , Edgrcn Believes Colored : . I Hope No Longer a Rival of the Champion By Robert Edgren Several' ancient rlJiff relic hav :. Put vr on th paying pub-Ik) pub-Ik) this year. wry vry profitably to th promoter, and the re I lea " themselves. As a rule an oM timer, tim-er, champion or dub, doean't do much fighting for tb money Ae gate. Bom former champions, lone; out of the ring and trying a'cnm-"beew,"'' a'cnm-"beew,"'' se pi set lea Hy scifo"thevr"' title to younger and better box 4 er. They've accepted the big and of a puree and Juat a much of a beating ai wa necessary to gret . aay with It. They haven't even taken th trouble trou-ble to act while sitting in their comers afterward; they thought of all that eaey moner mad it too hard to raiee the tesrs! The one exception to th rule waa j Jimmy Wilde, who wa badly beat a an J knocked out by Pancho VII la, after being knocked coldb by a blow delivered when he had dropped . He vuard after the bell at the and of the second round. Wild earned ' hi money. If Harry Will, fight Jack Demp aey the result will probably be another an-other flivver. Will waa good about A ,. five year a CO. He ha son ack . so far in the paat four year that be haea't don any fighting for ' nbout a year. No doubt hie man- ager think It feolleh to send Well - into show how much he baa deter-- deter-- lore ted, which might ape 1 1 all ' ehane to indue people to pay big ' money to eee a WUls-Dmpsy match. Jack Kearn known how Itttl . ' Will haa left. Kearn ia agreeable to match, a ha la keen In th hue- tneaa and that may account to noma . extent for hi entire winingee by ' a boxing rommlMlon where on of th big promoter can band! it, HOT GRBAT. . Will ba been knocked out only " twice, bv Sam Lang ford In 1914 and il4. whan Wills wa at hta best, and ha been beaten by Sam c-- c-- Vey. BUI Tata and Battling Jim Johnson. He haa won a lot of flghta, and ha beaten th men who . beat htm. But Vr'Ula record In th ' paat two or thre year has shown " 1 a. big slump from his early form. Will I becoming muscl bound or Is showing his age. He used to box. Of late he haa oW roua-hed and wrestled and punched tn clinches, wbarra his bulk and th atength gained In working? a g long shore man has helped htm. Hi early speed haa disappeared. Hta "fights" with Buddy Jackson and with Tut Jackson and Clara Johnson In New York last year wer merely xhlbltlona of holding sad hitting; In ell aches, with lUUe boxing- Wtue stamped on ths floor, made feroelou grimaces to terrify hta w.an, ml seed and floundered at long rang and combined holding and l-ltting when h couldn't do anything any-thing else, Clern Johnson, who was ' tough and famo and knew nothlns at all about boxing, stayed twsiv round Will oVhtbftlon In that twelve round with Clem Johnson may hav snada Piokard drop out as a bid Jar fnr Will' ftttur services. At any rats Packard aaya ha doesn't want anvthlng to do with a Dempeey-WID Dempeey-WID match. He think ft might hill box trig In Kw Tork and perhapa In other state. Not because It would rale any diet urbane along; color lines, but because it would he such a rot-ton rot-ton match snd something entirely barred by boxing rules might happen. hap-pen. rrwiN TwK.aw-r aVACK OOKriDRPJCW. Flrpo's allbt tf he lose to tmp-sy tmp-sy Is being: skilfully spread. Luis nn ntm mirprviri are Toiling me reople they moot that Flrpo la wiling wili-ng te box Dempeey, but that ha thinks he should hav a few months i or a year to perfect himself ta oa-In oa-In g method a. Thla may he Intended to throw . pempoov off hi guard snd make I rim slight his training snd get Into 1 the ring ex pooling an asy win. Kid McCoy pulled on along slm- i , liar line on Tommy Rvaa, middleweight mid-dleweight champion. Matched with Ryan. McCoy wrnt Tomm v a letter. . saying that Ryan knew rtcCoy had ! ;. no chance to win. and aaklng Tommy Tom-my to con nent to making th lo. rgnd a little bigger. They fought I for winner" and loser's end In - th dav a Ryan refuaed, and stopped hard 1 training. He want Int the ring : fat aad t of condition, and McCoy, Mc-Coy, in th pink, cut him to plecea . Ryan got the loser s end that ho had refuaed to Increase. rtmo. wanting a few months of ! training and knocking over setup. 1 seems te ahow aom lack of confl- 1 den re hia ability. Put he doesn't lack confidence, 1 More likely hi adver know from experlenrc of champions thst Irpo. aa challenger, can keep busier bus-ier and mak money faater than ho could If h actually held th title- The- ho d only bo able to light at long intorvals. how he eaa set vary good money for knocklne; over cond rater who wouldnl even tna good spar, rlug partners for him. H can man a tot more tn theatrical trip tf he tan t fiu up with matches. A the on challenger notice by th public pub-lic he in a aort poaltion Just now. Knocked oat by ta champion, had ba now her. Bending 1rpo In against temp-aey temp-aey la a gamble, with chances a, least two io on asainit htm. MAY Bat -FAST A1A.V v When rirpo and Iempaey meet. both will be in the beat co id it ion to be attained by hard training. Uempecy will train with slugger to get track th punch h aeonien o lavk when h tought Tom Uibuona lrpo will d in ther to take a chance and altp that right hand oi his ever, and l boreat will aureliy havo him well coached la eono method to offset lMtmpaey'a devaj-tatisg devaj-tatisg left hook oi the chin. It may be short. Dempser may St rlrpo ln a hurry", using hta rinsj experlencs to find sa opening for th big wallop even In tn first round. But It isn't likoly. rirpo ha th on quality that can offset th big wall up. He 1 fast, fempeey alwaya ha claimed that any fast maa could glv him mora trouble than the giant a Ktt-po Ktt-po la both btg and fast. And there la also a chance that Flrpo may land that husky right hand punch of hi on tjcmpaey' chin. Dempaey . rugged a id can take a pnnrh, to ayne on tb button wouldn't end th fight. But it rrouiij do a tot to make It an even hiauii Irom that i!m on. I (Copyright, t S3, by tl.e Bell 8y-Uuai. 8y-Uuai. ino.i |
