Show I PUBLIC ANXIOUS FOR DEMPSEY WILLS CLASH I D By Ily SPARROW SP MCANN 1 Special Correspondent of tan Standard Standard-Exa larI- larI miner Copyright 19 1926 S by Consolidated Press Association NEW Rick Rick-li YORK Aug Tex Te 7 Tex Rick Rick- Rickard's Rickard's ards ard's confidence In the larity popularity of ot the Tunney Dempsey fight was Jolted but not flattened this week when Harry Wills VIlis was wa greet greeted ed cd with cheers and Jack Dempsey with jeers jeer at nt a card o ot of bouts they attended In Madison Square Gar Garden Gar Gar- Garden den It was as rather a dramatic little Incident nn and an embarrassing one for Dempsey when Wills Vilis walked down th the aisle and was Voas given an ovation as ho he stopped to shake hands with the champion Most ot of the New York tight fight critics hailed It as further evidence that pUblic opinion supports Wills In his de- de demand de demand mand for or a Q chance at the title Rickard Richard however wa was mad clean through and openly charged that tho the whole affair was a care care- carefully carefully carefully fully laid plan to embarrass him him- himself himself him himself self as well as Dempsey Tex may be maybe upset a bit by this bitter pill but he be will not be swerved front from his purpose In tact fact he Is said to tobe tobe tobe be so 80 thoroughly peeved that he Is laeven oven even more determined to push the Dempsey Tunney scrap through and leave Wills definitely out Inthe In Inthe inthe the cold This business of ot Judging public op on the heavyweights heavyweight's title dispute Is a trifle difficult Last Latt year a number ot of newspapers con con- conducted con conducted ducted a poll 1011 among fight fans tans to I find out whom they considered the logical contender tor for the heavy heavyweight weight title Wills led ltd the fled field RIckard differs with the result ot of othe the straw vote He lie points to the large number of ot applications applications com coming ing In from all parts parte of ot the coun coun- country coun- coun country country try for tickets ticket to the tho Dempsey Dempsey Tunney Tunney tight This would l seem seem to Indicate that the tight has haa struck the tho popular fancy Toz Is filing the tho reservations away awa at the rate ot of 00 a day Dempsey will pitch his camp the coming week within a short ride ot of the Saratoga race raco track and nd the I chances are that the spectators will i begin to flock In at so much per throw to get a glimpse ot of o the champion Demp Dempsey cy says he e Is in fine tIne con con- condition condition con condition and aching to fight tight anyone It matters matter not to him that Gone Gene Tunney was was picked as his opponent They all look alike to him The champion Scott feoffs at the Idea long vacation has done him any harm He lie claims he Its hn been working all the tho time lime and has haa not permitted himself to get out ot of o con can Jack Is a natural tighter fighter and for tor that reason has hu nothing to lose by a a prolonged absence from from active competition Condition I Is the thIn thing that counts with him and he feels feel that he will will toe too the mark the New Yorker little It any fl different front from the Jack of old P TO Students of ot form fall tall to agree with Dempsey They have haTe seen too toom m many ny go by the wayside when called upon and the tho seine same old an answer ewer was sure to come Kept awa away too long Never felt better In my life lite was sure I could 1 go through with a good fight tight Gene Tunney Is not a man to trifle with He may be a meehan mechanical ical fighter tighter and all that but the tact fact that Tunney Is tar an and 1 above the usual uNal run of ot pugilists and has brains makes maltes him au all the more dangerous Tunney Is a student of ot the game No doubt he ho has hns learned much from watching Dempsey In several battle and his tight fight with Gibbons was a post graduate course coume In the theart theart theart art of ot fisticuffs Gene has bas been figurIng was wa's ways and means to over over- overcome overcome come Dempsey's style of at milling and Is bard at work perfecting his defense His Ills preliminary work ot of having hi his sparring partners rush at him tell full tilt and keep on punching away way without a Living out In the open away from the crowds of ot the he city In la an- an another an another other factor Tunney Is la counting on He Bo Is determined to make the tight fight ot of liPs life and Is ii leaving nothing to further that end Meanwhile Dempsey oey hint hints that he will the wise ones and Tunney Those who expect to 10 See Dempsey fight figh hi his old battle are aro In for tor a disappointment Jack says heIs Ito he heIs Is learning how bow to box and may show his opponent a few tricks ot of which he Is supposed to be a mas mas- master master ter Others before Dempsey tried the same sarno tack changIng style ot of battle on the eve evo of ot an important nt fight They failed ailed and It may he be behE hE J jack k Dempsey D will will bo ho another |