| Show r. r rf I i 1 t h i t. t 1 f S 1 t E- E THE SALT LANE LAKE LAKE TELEGRAM SUND SUNDAY Y MORNING JUNE 26 1 i gc 1 r r r a WRITER I i w PICKS r. r r I DEMPSEY t r t SURE SUB NI te ter s JACK JA K tAn IA AS r JWO DUCKS K TOr TO r 4 A JAC Critic Cannot Figure Challenger Challenger Chal- Chal lenger for Small g r Chance Chancer i. i r 7 i li tt t r t By Jack Lait S Special Correspondent Universal Service ATLANTIC CITY N J. J June 25 To To To the millions who have have been withholding I Ith th their lr bets on the tho fight until I 1 had seen I Dempsey and put my expert O. O K on him I All right fellers go fellers-go go to It Judged Judged by his showing against Bull Montana and a trio of perspiring young young- youngster ete ster 3 s Dempsey Is fit I think he is in m b bitter better shape than he has been at oung I any anytime anytime anytime time since the tho Willard bust Hastening tr from m the ringside to the lobby of the All Alf Baba hotel where I am quartered I dug up a sap from India and placed two frightened dollars donars on Dempsey caross the board If It further need there be to punctuate punctuate punctuate I emphatically my sincere faith in Dempsey I beg to point out that a a. man Vho ho has 2 2 left in Atlantic City after be- be fig fig- there overnight Is not placing a it punctilious and painful consid ii It was with mingled feelings or ot curious cu curious cu- cu rious interest and gaping wonderment that I beheld the pay as you enter trainIng trainIng trainIng train- train Ing Idea for the first time In full bloom Of course I crashed through on my Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago ago police card But there was a line of men and women outside the sizzling sun and the sifting sands for an hour before the portals of this flew w racket opened and when the he nut- nut brown Dempsey at last romped into view I th there re was a mighty cheer from the tho goodly gathering which Included dignified fi financiers financiers financiers fi- fi I reputable undertakers famous tight night lifers of many and the usual motley crowd of dips bottom bott bottom bot bot- t tom n dealers and top who go to tomake make Inake e up a assemblage of Datives such as only the headliners attract I At Toledo Dempsey wasn't a n. champion fO 0 he drew a couple of hundred at two bits the passage each day just enough to salve the rubbers and buy lip rouge for far the sparring partners Willard was a gloomy unpopular mountain of cheese and nobody wanted to see him train But Ib hete te at C Cover ver Charge N N. N J. J I saw a new kind of circus DEMPSEY'S SPEED And SAnd it was ag ago reat show at that Dempsey Dempse first worked at the pulleys Light and lithe as a n. buck not a ripple of flesh down the front and nothing but ripples along the limbs forearms and back shoulder areas he was a picture lIe sha shadow low boxed with the resistance elastics then fought Imaginary CarpentIers Carpen- Carpen i tIers all aU over ovel the ring without stopping ga gas or water His breathing breathing was a and easy y hitting on both lungs It looked a as ys s though Chough he could have jogged twenty miles on the road without distress His method of training work appeared easy grid and intelligent One Orie Eddie O'Hare with the look of a as I s startled artle rabbit entered the ring with more hope than faith Eddie had no great reason for p panic He Ho is a corking little boxer and he landed at 0 on J JAck ck to the amazement of everybody H He Ite Heis is a fine little fighter and In a finish finis h fight with Dempsey would last to th the e finish In no other measure of contest I however he had all an the hitting ferocity of an angry feal teal Dempsey showed well wel l against this boy who all aU kidding oft off I was no slouch boxer Larry Williams was the next blonde blond e I vestal led the sacrifice He like the oth- oth rs including Dempsey wore the ea ear ear r cards and head harness of latter da day training raining How Sullivan would have laughed Williams William did well to keep his ears ear s covered for it saved him hearing the th se e COmments of the customers As As' As fo for r a armor rm or a a. bullet proof Jacket and divin diving g suit would not have been a bad bet Dempsey made an awful mess mess' of this thi s bird bit d and went ori orl to Jack Renault a French Canadian drafted because h he r re resembles re- re Carpentier in method Renault t I a a. a fine tine figure o of a gent molded al almost almost almost al- al most most ad as beautifully as De Dempsey himself I Z If his as assignments was to to imitate Carpentier Car Car- Ill I'll say casually that he Is n no no o ot Elsie Janis as s an Impersonator t his functions after the Initial belt beit bel t Upon lIpon the exposed portion of the puss an and began to whale In in Dempsey whaled ht him m right out again faster than lightning Dempsey Dempse kissed him with many a glove After this he took on the old Bull Mr Montana when I was a youth he was a veteran ring clown He lIe is still as ol oles old ad d as IlS ever Dempsey pulled his ears Montana Mon Mon- tana having put on no wireless apparatus or football helmet and for a fe few w h minutes s It w went nt on with bare nand hand par part Wrestling rest ng part slapping It Is a departure e Jn n n training I should classify It as a ro re- re that now obsolete art once known know as barroom scrapping of this Willie Mee lee ban han is still champion t a Dempsey all aU the way showed uncanny uncanny uncanny ny infighting He boxed his way out o of every clinch instead ad of stepping o or r wriggling out and is undoubtedly th the re e greatest heavyweight one arm free fighter fighte r ever known I If Carpentier can lick th the theman re e man whom we saw here then he mu must st have been chloroformed every previous time out There is nothing In my vision vision n fn n the tho entire register of Carpentiers Carpentier's pa pas past nt t justifying any sound probability that th the e frenchman can stay the limit In Jersey Jerse Jers y city |
