Show DEMPSEY DEMPSE Y IN FA VOR I OF TU NEY Y SCRAP 1 Marty Burke Listed for forTune forTune Up Tune Tune- Tune Up Up Bout With Champion By Uy Sl UG Special Correspondent ot of if The rhe 1 I Standard Standard-I Iner Copyright 1926 by Consolidated Press Association NEW V TE YORK Jan Jan- 30 DespIte 30 LI the denials dentils of every on one con con con- emed In promoting a n uney y- y uney uney Dempsey has tip tip- tipped tipped tip ud ped off the th situation by assuring his friends friend that he h has ha no objection to meeting the cx ex next summer Imme Immediately after aler the th orIginal was made concerning worlds world's world heavyweight cht title lItie cold lold- colder er Cr and the American light heavy champion a i veil was wa suddenly tow low lowered low lowered ered teed Dempsey Dempsey's statement Is the only development Indicating what may be going on behind that veil The silence of ol Harry Wills manager Mulling Mullins Is evidence of othis his conviction that his hI big ble dusky boxer Is to be shunted aside Paddy has Influence In the box box- boxing box boxing ing game came They havo worked 1 with might anti and main to brink Jack and the negro together But Dut they have round found themselves unable to hurdle the obstacles es they thy have havo They were real obstacle Those In the know dare daro not divulge them Politics plays plas an Important part in boxing and It Is hinted that politic politics Is ono one ot of the barriers that the Wills Willa adherents have haye found to 10 be bo ANXIOUS One Ono thing thine Is 15 certain Dempsey knows ho his has ha to light fight some Bome one He Hc wants the kale the tho wolf pow pow- powder powder powder der In other words tho the money Whether or not he 1 Is willing to meet Wills however Is not known Ho He has bas said that he was saId was said It many times In la the past four Cour our years and and when Ih they they y signed ned d articles In August at the th Niles meeting It looked very ery much as 1 It if everything was wag to be set In these negotiations It Jt was stipulated that the Iho champion should 1 be 0 permitted to engage In one up tune-up match malch His Ills opponent was to be Marty 1 Burke Butke Now I Tunney Tunnel Is ts likely to be the thc I no one ono hears hear Jack J ck ask askIng Ins Ing fora for lor a a up tune-up This would 1 to sum urn up Dempsey's Dempsey idea 1 or of Gene chances chance ot of lifting his But this thi statement should not be accepted na au saying that a 0 n Demp Demp- sey Demp sey affair would not be u a fair test lest ot of tho ho champions champion against a worthy toe foe It would serve In tact fact to give civo an n excellent Idea ol of o how much Dempsey has retained of o his former greatness s One has hns ha to go so a long loni way back to find a better fighting man than thau the tho Dempsey who cornered the clever Battling Levinsky In three rounds popped oft off the lanky Fred Ired Fulton when Fred was at his hi best annihilated doss Willard In three rounds and massacred Lui Luis Luls In two But Dut the Jack of or yesterday esterday and today may be two tw different per per- persons perSons persons sons How lIow much rust has ha gather gather- gathered ed In the past ast t two years and how bow much has his he lie Ie polished oIl off of I In his six lx months of oC training Dempsey alone know knows Ho lie IS la not r the sort to kid himself and can appraise himself fairly and accurately ral ly As for or Tunney there Is nothing In his record to warrant tho the as as- as s that he be Is la good food enough to take Jacks Jack's crown away from provided him provided Dempsey Is any any- anything any anything thing like his old self Belt His knockout of ol Gibbons Gibbon was w a worthy effort to be sure lure but when one considers Carpentier and flartley Madden one lj is not so o im- im im Gene ha has been boxing eight years This gives him two moro more thant hi his printed record Indicates Including the thC matches matche In which he engaged as ns Uncle Sams Sam's soldier toy oy he ho Ja has answered the first round Twenty bell 58 51 times Twenty eight knockout 15 IS decision victories 13 decision decision no-decision affairs affair one loss to Harry Greb and ono one on declared no contest conlest comprises his hi record Anyway the bout Is sure Bure ure to draw bIg biff Tunney Tunney's war record and his pleasing personality a assure suro him a large and sympathetic Col- Col lowing and a 0 cham- cham Championship battle bailie 1 la is 1 always a n magnet As for tor Dempsey ho lie Is Js still the th big big- biggest biggest eest ble-eest gest drawing card In the ing i-ing to- to today today to today day The fans rans know they will see seea c a tight fight whenever he crawls through the tho ropes rope |