| Show DEMPSEY BOUT GETS INTEREST IN MIT WORLD I Outcome of Title Bout Discussed Champ i in il inFine l Fine Inno Form FormBY FormBY BY SPARROW Special Correspondent of The I ne r Copyright 1926 Consolidated ted Pres Prees Association NEW JEW 1 JEW YORK Aug AUK Can H-Can H Can Jack Jacka a Dempsey como come back That Is the big ble question in boxing random today loday now that all the th serious obStacles ob obstacles in the tho way of ot his meeting with lone Gene Tunney on September IG 16 seem to have hivo been ironed out outto to the th accompaniment of much valuable K If nerve norve norv pub puh publicity To do a thing thine perfectly one must need neol keep In practice And this applies as much to champion Jack Dempsey as to anybody else When Dempsey enters the ring rinn to engage with Tunney he l will wll be t t p against a n real scrapper Th The o out oit outcome t con come e will hinge hince largely on how much Jack has gone eone back In his long layoff lay There Is little doubt that the Dempsey who battered the giant slant Jess Willard Into sub sub- submission sub submission mission could take the Gene Tunney o of today loday But will It be bethe bethe the same samo Dempsey The Th champion It Is true has hanot not totally neglected his physical He lie has participated In numerous exhibition bouts and has w worked conscientiously ly In the gymnasium outwardly he h looks o tine fine But Dut tho the history o of the ring Is full tun of ot instances Indicating that exhIbition tilts tills and gYmnasium work do not make up for the benefits accruing from actual con conflict filet OTHERS FAIL There Is nothing In record to Indicate that ho hi is a superman Others before him who have had bad far br better hetter records record than his have havo fallen tallen down when the test lest came This does not mean that Demp Demp- Dempsey Dempsey sy sey Is I not a good gool fighter But Dut his career since ho became champion has been too ranch much a bed of t to bring brine out his latent greatness greatness Dempsey Is a fighter purer purn and simple Trying to be clever or employing tricks he h has picked up tip In his exhibition work hampers his style tyle This was proven proven- in his tight fight with Bill Brennan Drennan when he be trIed to be clever and was carried to tho the twelfth round ro Only by abandoning the showy stutt and employing his slam bang tactics was he able to bring brine Drennan Brennan down Discounting the tho Idea that the champIon was threatened with vIolence If K he knocked out Tommy Gibbons In la Shelby Mont the ef effects of ot Dempsey's two years ab ab- ab ab sence from tho the ring rine were cl-arly cl cl apparent in that fight Permitting his lighter and Iud cleverer opponent to stay slay the full 15 rounds proved there ther was something missing Many have tried to discount this ho- ho hoIn In lag by various alibis libla but the truth of ot the matter Is that Dempsey Th was way oft off The Firpo tight fIght was too short lived to give a a true line lino on the champion It proved but one thing When roused the champion Is a a fighting fury but whether he can keep It up In a longer fight tight reo remains mains to be answered CHIEF STOCK Dempsey's unremitting assault and the power of o his short blows and hooks books are his hia chief chief stock Sn In trade It Is b a qu question whether lack of actual fighting has taken anyThing out of ot his punches or slowed him up Dempsey will not only be b fight log Ing to retain his champIonship but to upset an old tradition tradition that tradition tradition-thata that thata a champion must fight often otten to retain his title against a worthy challenger There Thero Is a first tim to an all things and It may b be that Jack Dempsey will soar to the th heights and be he the th first one to upset this old rule ot of o the tho ring |
