Show JACK DEMPSEY IS fACING HIS FIRST BIKE BARRAGE AND MAY 1 JOSE LOSE lilt HIS CHANGE CHANCE Actions of American Legion Have H ve Champion Worried i Manager r Asks Hearing j j Before ef re Returned Y Yanks anks Yanks y fi By Henry L. L Farrelli Farrell i YORK Jan 15 Jack Jack t 1 Dempsey is facing his first I barrage barlage TJ TI Q worlds world's heavy heavyweight weight I cJ n pi n who went vent to the shipyards shipyards ship ship- y yards rd when Mike 0 ODowd Dowd Augie I It rn r Bob Martin Gene runn Tun- Tun n Pal Moore Joe Lynch an and Johnny Asher put on the khaki r bombardment of I isnow n nOW w under a j fir fire that is almost as harassing as s the high explosive shrapnel j I jand and nd machine gun bullets that Ison I son some c of the ring her heroes es fa faced ed in inthe the trenches J i- i carries carries' the title of the thew thew I w worlds world's greatest fighter and he hei i being iJ tried no now for lor turning a i d deaf ear ear car to Uncle Sam when he called I for tor fighters The The e first shot was fired tired at Dempa Dempsey Demp- Demp a 8 sey Y by the Denver post of ot the American American Amer Amer- ican Icart legion Resolutions condemning him liin as a slacker and closing the doors of ot Colorado to him were passed I Iaz last week The attack was wa taken up on other sectors when posts ln n Kansas City and Ft Wayne followed suit Without official action legion members In New Jersey voiced their feelings s and the state boxing commission announced a decision barring Dempsey from fightIng lighting light fight Ing or exhibiting in the state MIGHT RUIN DEMPSEY What Wha t the result will be ba before this contagion ends Is Impossible to forecast So far national officers of tb the legion are arc not considering taking any action according to G. G H. H Rennick assistant adjutant general Every American sportsman believes in fair tar play Every American soldier and every member of t the American ca legion should h gd im believe Ot In fair lr play ae Dempsey e should be heard before action is s taken that will blot hi his record for all time and eventually drive him out of the country an outcast There Is another reason especially for forthe forthe the former soldiers to avoid hasty action in asking their respective t communities to I lock the doors against the Dempsey Car tight right CARPENTIER AN IDOL i Georges Carpentier the French Idol and champion of Europe is the doughboys doughboys doughboys' dough dough- boys boys' ideal Idell of a real fighter Hardly had the gray gray hordes of Germany turned a astep astep step toward Belgium when Ca Carpentier enlisted in the h i aviation tI n corps s. s He canceled canceled can can- contracts worth thousands of dollars dol dol- dol- dol lars laza he was twice decorated for gallantry gallan gallan- try in action tT The war cost him h hAU heavily All AU his money was Invested in mining properties around Lens and when the Germans left he had ha-d nothing but a hole in the ground It will take an Immense um sum of money to restore his property and his only assets are his fists lists It If It Americans force the fight tight out of America because Dempsey is 15 considered a a. slacker lacker It will react on Carpentier The blows that are being directed perhaps Justly at Dempsey will hit the Frenchman French French- ran man with the same force torce |