| Show MCK JA ck DEMPSEY Y AFTER HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP NOT NOT THE THE MO MONEY NE Y VENi ENl EN Mauler Taking Off Plenty of W Weight eight in T Training raining Camp at i J Hot Springs Near Santa B Barbara former Ch Champ mp Likely to Meet Up With Spanish Span Span- r 7 ish Woodchopper i in Elimination Bout 1 t r By ROBERT EDGREN Jack Dempsey barring accidents Wll figure In the picking of ot Gene GeneT T Tunney's next opponent and gulte possiblY In the September fight A month ago Dempsey slipped quietly toa tola training camp at Wheelers Wheeler's Hot Brings rIngs In Ute tile coast range of mountains forty miles from Santa Barbara Birbara Cal CaI Gus Wilson who used to toj tp train Carpentier but has been s with Dempsey during the past two years rears went vent ahead and arranged the camp mp Dempsey's going was a mysterious mysterious mysterious mys- mys disappearance He was no longer seen een around town ut tir at his hotel and at his home the butler explained In low and well modulated tones tines that Dempsey was not avail avail- a able bie at the moment Pressed Pressed- for foran forari forari ari an explanation the butler told all aU comers corners tl that at Mr Dempsey was vis i lUng friends friend's at the beach SwIm SwIm- thing Ing Oh Ol y yes s probably swim swim- l- l ruing lI He return th that t evening evening eve eve- ning or n b next t day day or or perhaps the day after that Nothing about M MJ D Dempsey wa was certain except th that l he e v wasn't available And all the time time Jack was out at Wheelers Wheeler's Hot Springs clad In woolen shirt an old hunting suit suit- l leggings laggings and muddy shoes The 1 te S were wore muddy because It r rained d part liart of the time and Jack V wai wis s galloping galloping gal galloping loping around over the hills When not galloping he stayed near the camp and hacked down a few tew ew old tf trees es with an ax afterward sa sawing wing f I. I the logs Into fireplace lengths leng and splitting them Into fire tire When When not sawing or chopping D ps y dug ditches to to drain off the rain I waters or cut brush on the ridge above to make a firebreak A firebreak firebreak firebreak fire fire- I break Is a a. wide path up the ridge in in which all brush Js s scar carefully car fully cleared away Firebreaks are necessary necessary necessary essary in In Inthe the foothills of ot southern California where everything dri drits s up up in the summer drouth and fires travel through the hrush and burn the forests in the in t e canyons and on the mountaintops Under this useful Work Dempsey has become come far more cheerful than at any time since he met young Mr Tunney at Philadelphia and handed him the heavyweight cham- cham crown For several months Dempsey has been sick and anti somewhat some some somewhat what discouraged The sickness Is gone and now he has nothing to tor r worry over but a a. few stray laWsuits laW laW- vr la aW suits Involving Involving- his financial relations rotations rela rota- with his former manager and J I the matter of ot getting back Into fighting shape In fact Demp Dempsey Dempey ey has had nothing to worry over o but the chance of g getting Into inJo condition condi condl- tion for he says the the lawsuits will VIII take care of themselves As ter for petting getting into he didn't whether he could ouid or not DEMPSEY WANTS CROWN NOT MONEY i If lf I fight It will be to win in the the championship Dempsey tells everyone who questions him never g get gt t in a ring again unless unless' sl know I can do it If It Im I'm right I can beat Tunney and name the roUnd I wont won't fight again unless I know lenow Im I'm right Im I'm not crazy abo about t money and they're never go- go i to see me cutting paper dolls dons because I went on pushing my chin into pun punches just to get the dough v. v ate after I was through Being comfortably financially finan finan- n- n dallY daIly Dempsey q Doesn't have to fight if he doesn't want to So If tf he does fight again the fans can know that hes he's fighting to win net not Just to get a purse This week Dempsey says hell he'll be fl fi to fight an anybody body Tex Rickard rd ants to throw into a ing i-ing with him on July 4 Hed He'd prefer to fight Tunney y first because its it's Tunney lunney he wants ants to befit beat But if Its It's necessary essary to sock somebody rise ulse on oh the way to a Tunney fight to show allow the public that it wont won't be another cas case of walking helplessly into pUnches for ten rounds the khe way he didin In Philadelphia hes he's willing to todo todo todo do do that too too Dempsey ha has taken off oft several pounds and has hardened Into fairly good shape with a few weeks' weeks work But Dut he has laid out a long campaign that is to include the preliminary mountain camp roughing a month of- of of boxing boxing a few exhibition bouts and the finishing grind with the thel l best est sparring partners he can engage engage en- en gage sage gage r rIf If things go as he plans Dempsey Dempse will throw a bomb Into the camp o othe of the elimination boxers who have hoped to monopolize Tunney among themselves f stand now Tex Tec Rickard f- f has the elimination bout out between th-e th two Boston strong boys Sharkey Sharkey Shar- Shar key kejr and Maloney for May I 39 19 9 He also has Paolino the Spanish woodchopper wood- wood c chopper oPPer who may be tossed In against ag Dempsey to give him a ac c ence in the elimination tournament m ment nt and to see whether Dempsey lias retrieved his punch This s oh Paolino Pao- Pao lino a fancy box boxer r. r but in his fights against Hanson and Heenan he showed plenty of a shock absorb ing power powel and a. a a willingness to rush rushIn rushin I In Jn and swing from his heels After all sil that seems to be e Interesting to to th the ringside The class of the contenders un- un Iness Jess iless ess Dempsey cuts In will be Sharkey Sharkey Shar- Shar key and Maloney They have done everything asked of them Sharkey eliminated Harry Wills In ar tash fashIon J an and lately beat eat Mike gue quite so st ly of course for or e gave Sharkey a rough evening until d darn dam damaged m- m aged ged beyond repair b by on one of at Sharkey's Sharkey's Shar- Shar keys key's blows Neither Wills Will's nor Mc- Mc Tigue w was s knocked out Sharkey Shuley is clever fast tast a damaging puncher but no terrific w like Demp Demp- sey l f Maloney loney did a n first class jot job when he and outfought Jack Delaney Either Sharkey harkey or Maloney 1 might show more mo-e hitting power po in a a- championship fight knowing that a winning sock might mean a million dollars doliar Anybody ought to be able to hit with that l incentive DEMPSEY TO TOA A N N OU N C E P LA N S In a afew few days Will Dempsey make a public announcement stating his plans That will vill be h he is absolutely absolutely ab ab- ab- ab sure th that t he ha has come ba back k Theres There's no gOO good reason why he shouldn't be able abie to come back hack He never took tool beatings during his lis active ring career The only real hammering he got ot was In the ten- ten round Tunney fight that cost him the championship and in that al although although al- al though cut and bruised he hp wasn't put puti off his feet or even knocked groggy at any time Tunney hit him with everything e hut but the ring posts and Dempsey never stepped coming There never has been beena a heavyweight champion yet et who gave up a championship Jl permanent manent ly Iy on a n referees referee's decision and Jack Jack- Dempsey doesn't intend to be le the first one Dempsey thinks that if it hed he'd had fifteen rounds to go at Philadelphia the result might have been differ differ- ent He lie was was- cut up in to the t ten n rounds rounda fought but und under r other othel circumstances circumstances circumstances cir cir- cir cir- he might have made mad madea a different light and night might not have hav been a target for Tunney's counter counter- hits I was champion and I had to win with a knockout or risk losin losing the decision to a clever boxer at the end of ot ten rounds says Dempsey I went after Tunney steadily lly and andas andas as he is a good hitter counter-hitter I Ivas Iwas Iwas was vas pla lila his o n game ganie That's why I wa va cut up UI so much I walked into everything deliberately and I 1 didn't have the speed to land first 1 I fought to win with a knockout Inside of ten rounds and andI andL I L expected in every very round to get that punch over I couldn't couldn't dov do It i Without having to hurry it I be believe believe be- be lieve 1 could m match him in boxing and I think my chance af of getting Ina in ina ina a deciding blow is better than his If It I fight him hIni again it will wiil be a dif adIf different dif ferent kind of a fight Copyright 1927 1921 by the Bell Fyn- Fyn Inc 0 I II 1 DEMPSEY IN N THE 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