Show Dempsey Still Ranks With Best Best- Mit Stars McGann Gives Opinion oi of Famous Referee Re Recalls Re- Re Recalls o calls Other Bouts Dy By SPARROW MeG Correspondent o ot of The Copyright 1926 Consolidated Press Fres Association jiw YORI Oct There 2 I There arc NEW I no supermen In the cauli cauli- cauliflower cauliflower flower ear car Industry That Is la the conclusion tho timers old have come to as ft 0 a result ot a careful tudy ot of o recent Meent battles There may bo ho super euper promoters super trainers trainer and super predictors predictors tors lors and broadcasters but the men who don tb padded added mitts are Just men One ot of the tho most experienced and known nd known best referees In boxing said today that opponents havo have more to do with Ith the showing a ring star makes than any superlative ability words of oC his own In other especiallY against an nn opponent boxer fre frequently re suited to his style a 11 mak makes a 1 phenomenal showing howll Against a man of oC a dif dif- different dif different ferent type ho may bo made mado to look like a 0 sucker even en though ho he be In the pink of oC o condition and exerting every effort eort to win This arbiter ot of tho the sport who has hos refereed rete reed two championship In ln which sack Jack Jack Dempsey p says tor or example that Dempsey has not gone back that lighter fighter today as ashe ashe ho he 1 Is as us good a 1 he ever was was-if was It ho he were just handled and matched carefully lie He points out that Dempsey esl b established his reputation against slow moving slow thinking opponents like Jess Willard WI Carl 1 Porley Flynn Fred Fulton ulton LuiS Luls and othere Dempsey on the other hand mado a 0 Jess Jep Impressive showing r b boxers ot of the smart scientific title order like tike pill VIII Brennan Tunney Gibbons and Gene Geno Tommy rom my At Philadelphia ho he seemed built to order tor for Tunney C yen PL-yen No Xo one can den deny that Dempsey Dempse 1 ha as a terrific punch That was what m made de him hith a drawing cord card rhe tight fight tans like a fighter who c III knock em cm cIn kicking But It QuestIn to as nas Ilas always alwa's been a question bow soon he could land It Against some ot of the quick thinkers he has hos been unable to do so within the tho limited number cumber of o rounds which present day battles bottles allow The public has lias always been away said the old Id re- re ref ref- eret ree and has become frenzied nd excited over supermen n In the prize ring There never has been ouch tuch a thing thins John L Sullivan eras S 'S considered a super man mon but what happened to him hen ehen hen he met boxers boaters ot of tar far less than his bis weight and with not a hithe ot of o hI his hitting power was considered a super man while ho bo was wasi champion champlon vet look what James J 3 Corbett did to him at Coney Island after be- be beIng belog be being ing log out of ot the ring ring- for tor five years If that fight tight had been limited to 10 too 0 o or 15 rounds Corbett would have the tho the championship for tor he took tool every round Yet Tet against a boxer of oC his own type each cach ot of hese hes men was Invincible In Gene GenII Tunney Is 11 riding high on the Iho wave o ot of popularity but the timers theold-timers old timers In the tho game fame predict that he will not be the Iho hero to the tho fan that Dempsey was was just as Corbett never replaced John L In the tho ar- ar art at t factIons of ot the populace The Tho pub pub- public pub public lic lb likes a 0 fighter tighter with a punch When two boxers are matched even though they put up a splendid splendid did exhibition It frequently tails fails to please the crowd erod This was shown when Tom Torn Gibbons and lacky McFarland got together When Gene Tunney and ond Jack Juk Ren lien Renault Renault ault met In Philadelphia both bolh were hl CRAVE ACTIO ACTION ACTION- It was shown In the preliminaries preliminaries preliminaries to the Philadelphia cham cham- championship battle Tommy and Jimmy Delaney y put up a won won- wonderfully scientifIc and skillful bout about which the other boxers In Inne inthe Inthe the ne audience were enthusIastic But the crowd got more thrill every time Ume the right swing of Pers on the Swede smacked Jack Joek Adams to the canvas than out of oC all the ducking blocking counter counter- countering countering ing and Coot footwork work of ot the more highly rated pair Yet when his opponent Is suited to him the tho so-called so dancing mas mae master master ter of oC boxing can and does make moke he alleged superman look like a aucker auker aucker Instead of oC a man mon killer The main thing the boxer has to have besides skill Is ts courage e It If he ho Is bluffed or frightened by the fierce swings and rushes of o the rougher type he be c can n never succeed This quality more snore than his hla skill bids bide fair to make Tunney a drawing ard ird rd equal to any champion In rs |