Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-05-08 | Page 7 | Dempsey Has Fun in Ring

Vv HAS HASI I FUN IN RING RINGI I Champ Boxes With Salt Lake Lightweights To SaltI I Amuse Fans Pans I i SAW SALT LUJ L KI May 8 i 8 Dempsey Y eight I champion appeared in tho the ring uno un- unexpectedly un unexpectedly expect expectedly at tho the Manhattan club here I re last night and hovel boxed bo d two 1 rounds each cash Deh with Ith three local I light weights light First tho the champion tool too I Ion Ion on Midget t Smith tb then n Buffington and lastly ran Pan OBrien O'Brien I Dempsey let th the little f fellows hit hum 1101 with Ith everything th they y had much to to lh the enjoyment nt of oC several hun hun- hundred hun hundred dred local fans who ho were ero present nt It avas as the time lime that the champion has appeared in a 11 local ring since he hewon won the title from Jess Willard at Toledo Reports were ero circulated ester ester- ester I ester day I do day that Dempsey had injured I n a finger nail on his right hand b but In the ring t last ev evening t there east I no sign of ot his being In the least crippled Ho He appear appeared d In perfect form torm Today Dempsey 5 y will be at Pro vo Pro Pro- Provo Provo vo a where hero a celebration Is planned d dIn ln In his honor and he ho Is to referee tse ral bo boxing bouts The Th champion cham cham- champion champion pion lived at Provo Pro before he amounted to much as a boxer and the the people there halo e arranged a Dempsey day headquarters Dempsey is making snaking his he at his hia coal prop property near Help Help- Helper Helper er r Utah lIe He plans to do some light training there before gOing to dohis Great I alls ails he will do doI his real work for his hI fight fig WIth I Tom Gibbons at Shelby Mont Moat Monton doI I on July 4