Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-15 | Page 7 | Prize Ring and Lawyers

U I P PRIZE IZE RING AND LA LAWYERS T The e lawyers awyer nave bave triumphed The horny hands of the ring have dropped to the canvas every mothers mother's son of them and the judge Is counting them out A lawyer with no other weaPon than a legal logal tome has won on the worlds world's pugilistic championship The Is s over oyer You might night have known that when the manly art became a dollar dollar million-dollar Industry they could not lay oft ort It much longer The Thet t was too much Back In the day when John L Sullivan and Jake mauled maulell one another fighting was illegal mega flut Dut they did fight and the folk who took that mysterious train from lIew ew Orleans to Mr Richs Rich's farm In Mississippi to see It will tell you OU that there wasn't a sin single gle lawyer In the ring that day All is changed now It If you have haYe Inferred it Isn't legal to fight now someone has baa misled you ou It h 1 positively legal only as we said before they are using books In Instead stead of knuckles Lawyers are trying to work out some kind of ot a case whereby Dempsey one of o the style old old lighters can take tako his cen cen tennia exercises against a youn soldier and a good one named Gen Gene Tunney a very much smoked up article Kearns Insists that Dempsey keep his bis hands In his pocket un un- unless un- un unless unless less he fish forth many to ease the hurts occasioned by bythe bythe bythe the recent rec nt Kearns Dempsey di- di divorce divorce di divorce vorce A few hundred thousand for that's alimony alimony that's all I Kearns earns would like from the court today And that that Isn't all A brunet Wills declares he be Is really the he one ono Dempsey sey should bould take his hi exercise with and he be goes back Into the tho flies files to try to prove therea heres a 1 Santa Banta Claus and pleads that hat the court hear bear him It'll be fine pretty soon All the prize rIzo fights will be free tree But flut they'll be bEl held In Ja the he appellate cour s I