| Show DEMPSEY HERE ELATED HERE ELATED OVER WILLARD MA MATCH TeM Salt alt Lakes Lake's Heavyweight Championship Contender Con Con- tender w-tender tender Visits Mother Before Continuing Theatrical Theatrical The The- Tour Says Hell He'll Beat Willard Sure as Surest Thing He Knows f I S LOOKING T hale and hearty and enthusiastic as a result of recel recent t 1 i announcements that he has been chosen as is s the opponent for Jess Willand Willard when the latter promises finally to come out of retirement re rc- re- re long enough to take a chance on his worlds world's championship champion champIon- ship crown Jack Dempsey dropped into the city yesterday to spend a few days at the old homestead on a visit with his mother Mr Mrs Mr Cecelia Dempsey who is slightly ill with influenza Although in the th-e midst of a theatrical engagement in which he lie is playing a certain circuit and ll guaranteeing to knock out all all' opponents op inside of a round or forfeit or-forfeit forfeit 1000 I the fighting champion says he could not forego the opportunity to visit his mother and to at least re remain remain re- re re-I re main with her ier until she has re recovered recovered re- re covered from her illness re-I re I cant can't ten tell you how how tickled I am amS 1 S to toS S set get t that chance at Willard said Dempsey last night That's what I I have been striving for tor in all my bouts of the past vast fourteen months I have boxed benefit after atter benefit and given glnn away my services a dozen times for forthe forthe forthe the sake of demonstrating that there Is not a heavyweight boxer who ha haa hab haba a a. better right to get a chance at t the championship than I. I My Iy earnings did not amount to a a. great deal but I achieved my aim and ana incidentally the boys over there profited but no now novy I am after the championship and which is coming to me S Willard Is a much bigger man manthan manthan manthan than I but I am not patting myself on the back when I sa say that I would rather ratler fight a big fellow like Willard or Fulton than a small man like for instance I 1 believe I have hate havethe havethe the speed and the punch to offset anything that Willard may have on me In ii reach or weight I feel just justas f as confident that I will beat Willard the first time I meet him as I am II JI that I I. I am very very much alive today toj to- to j day dayi I am not saying that Ill I'll do doIt It Jt in ii n a round or in ten or fifteen r i but there will be a new champion I when Willard Villard steps into ring f with me That's Just the wa way I feel feet I about it and If It I 1 told you OU anything different Id I'd be lying to myself and to you that's all aU f WILL WORK OUT HERE 2 t Dempsey has secured permission I- I from the military authorities to work workout workout t out at the armory each afternoon at i l 1 clock 4 and he will take advantage ort the to keep himself e In 1 shape while in Salt Lake f. f The Salt Lake heavyweight received A Wire last night from his manager Jack Kearns asking him to hurry back east to keep his theatrical engagements engagements en 1 but he wired Kearns statS stating stat stat- S 1 ing ng that he could not think of leavIng leavIng leaving leav leav- ing here until his mother has J ered Jack expects to be at the ManI Manhattan Man Man- I hattan club show Monday night j to toi i spend pend an an evening in the surroundings surround surround- ings which gave him his start on m the road to fame Dempsey tells many Interesting ex fX ex- I about his recent tour of the East at the head of a company of vaudeville artists It It must be recalled that Dempsey offers 1000 to an any man in the world he cannot stop In three rounds and of course in some o of the manufacturing ing towns he visits plenty of candidates candidates candidates candi candi- dates for the 1000 show up In a town in Ne New Jersey recently a big I three six fellow a shipbuilder for tor forthe forthe the government made claims for the 1000 by accepting the deft The shipbuilder shipbuilder shipbuilder ship ship- builder was offensively cock cocky and told all his friends to come and have a i drink with him after the third round for tor he the shipbuilder would be just one grand richer then DEMPSEY WAS PEEVED Take it from me Ill I'll not only stay tay the three rounds with this cyclone but Ill I'll give Ive him a severe thumping in addition l n The h n next night g lt was s the one scheduled for him to meet Dempsay Dempsey Dempsey Demp Demp- sey say and set him back just one thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand The shipbuilder went around town boasting and became so offensive that Dempsey allowed his goat to get beyond control Im going to wallop that fresh guy so hard bard hell he'll think the Woolworth building fell feIl on him sal said l Dempsey to his manager What really occurred is best told by James Isaminger the well known sport editor of the Philadelphia North American American Amer Anier- ican lean I You have to give that shipbuilder credit He Ile sailed into Dempsey as if i he were some dub who could be put putout putout I out in a couple of punches Dempsey was angry clear through and was just I as aggressive sive and determined As long fong longas as the tle fight lasted th they acted like two bantams exchanging punches I never saw fists fy so fast There was actually ten seconds of fighting for I kept the watch on them Suddenly Dempsey shot a terrific left handed hook that caught the ship ship- builder flush on the Jaw while he was tearing in Wow Vow What an Impact The force of the blow carried so much steam that it knocked the shipbuilder out of the ring RING WENT VENT WITH HIM But the funny part is that the ring went with him When he hit the rop ropes s s everything gave You must know the scrap was held on the stage of a theatre As a result of the momentum momentum mo mo- the stakes fastened to the floor were ripped out and the whole ring collapsed Had he been conscious the shipbuilder would have been counted out anyway as it required re five minutes to extricate him from the coils It was the only onty time I ever saw a Tighter fighter and the ring knocked out ut at atthe atthe atthe the same time |
