Show GIVES DEMPSEY EDGE IN BIG BOUT BY Iii SPARROW G of The TIc r Copyright 1926 1 26 Con Consolidated Association NEW JEW T JEW YORK Sept Jack H-Jack 18 I I l Dempsey will retain his title os as heavyweight champion ot or the I orld orid After Allet watching both tho the cham p cham I pon on and ond challenger challener In action the V riler came from their comps camps with this Idea firmly planted In his mind 1 troubles o ha been piling up thick and tod fast Cast ast If they thoy have o caused him any annoyances and prevented pre him front from showing his best It has haG not been discernible to the cyc Jack h has s been laggard at al times but whenever he put on speed he showed up fast fut and sprightly One thing thine Is certain and that lint Is Dempsey has lost none o of ike power of his punch Ills timing may be a little off but that be b rem remedied cd led before he be cn en- en cn ten the ring rine lh Thursday evening It Is la not presumed that Tunney will make male a a rushing fight of or It Tunney It-Tunney Tunney Is known cl as a counter His Bla workouts have o not die die- dis disproved proved this theor theory It Is ablo able that Gene Oene Instinctively dra drawn YM back his right fool anticipates his opponents opponent's move mo a and aid 1 thou flashes a Jab jb or hook No one on has hu been able ble to ac- ac accomplish accomplish ac accomplish much touch against Dempsey by thene tactics I For or this thin reason It must be bo taken for grunted that thai Tunney will not do any better bellr Tunney funney Is tho the smarter o of the two Whether or not tho the Intellect Intellectual ual edge cdo ed e means anything In tho heat of battle remains to be b seen But Dempsey Is smart In his way ny Tommy Loughran who must l know Y Do what ho Is talking I as ho he Is the most I Iman man tho the champion has hos had to train MiLk Ith says aaa emphatically that thaI I the tho champion Is I quick to see so an I opening and his hia fists shoot out on the spur of tho moment It Is 10 only to be expected ted that D DempSey will iii make mak sorIO mis mis- mistakes takes His Ills style Is such that h he heIs heIs Is bound to err Dempesy forgot all all else when hen ho he h Is In lit the the heal or of battle batti and ond under the circum- circum stances Is Ii bound to be bo lous lous LACKS I PU PUNCH CIr lbs Has Tunney the punch to tak take advantage of these lapses and win the fight 1 Tho writer does not think Gene Geno has Ills hands are arc known t to be brittle and nod with a n v f second raters rater he hau been unable to put over o II a quick sleep producer Tommy Gibbons went ent out It Is true but Ge Georges Carpantier was wason wasen on hi hb feet when the tho rout was halted as was wu later tights tight with lIh Harry Greb and John nisko went the full ull distance It If Tunney I Is to show a reversal re of or form foni end and nd a knockout punch It will b be ono one of the most meet surprising Incidents In all 11 tittle history If It the champion has gone ono back any extent atte his long lay oft It does dos no 0 What ow What Is I coin on inside can only be conjectured The wl wise ones tire ar that Dempsey's multiplied d worries will have their effect creet on him It If tho the champion Is worried then hi his friend and v confidant Cap Cap- Captain tain tam Mabb Mabbutt Is greatly The captain has hos known tho cham cham- champlon champion pion plon since they both wore knee pants pant bad back In tho the 01 old 1 days In Salt Lak L k City Mabbutt says saS the champion la is just Jutt as free care os as over e and will Ili III prove provo it lt to the the doubting Thom s n felt t Thurs Thurs- Thursday Thursday day The writer had a chat with Ih the champion before betor his hIe camp More In fun tutu titan than any any- anything siny thin thing the writer asked lim Im why Mra 1 Taylor Dempsey would not be bo present to o witness tho scrap scup You know Jack Johnson Johnron s sent nt his wife out of o the he anna sinna before Willard 1 knocked him out Docs Doen Doea that mean that you would not like to ha have t Mrs Irs see you out 1 Dempsey lau laughed hed goo natured good natured ly natured 1 Iy and gave Kave ono one ct or his is playful digs In the ribs Well Weil theres therea there to that h he raid eald Mrs 1 Den Dempsey has never nver teen seen a prize tight fight and does docs not care to start now Rut nut say my dear old mother and father will be there They v ill to br ti sitting In the fortieth ro row Yu dont don that I would want them to toso so see something I would not care to have ve my wife wire witness do 10 you 1 I 00 |