Show UT AM BOXER XER I IMA MA AY V RECORD NEt FEA I III p JACK DEMPSEY ever er fights II I It Il will In the of ott ottI be b summer 1026 I the tho rings ring's I 1 6 By D that Dial tune gifted elocutionist will viii have ship for 0 seven Years yearn r rn I The Importance n of f this If am any amis is 11 hat ha it II will vilI set act H n new record I No Xo heavyweight champion In Itt mod mod- I frn Irn rn times ha hl held h the title longer linn lIun six bix years IHS und tend some odd odo I months I IChe The rho present record belongs to Jack Johnson negro wio vio made mode gold fillings a n Que Queena- Queena n fal ad Johnson beat b at Jim 1101 Jeffries s In 1910 and ano held the tho title until Jess J lS Willard whipped him un a blistering Havana na sun lIun six three e months and a a. few days clays lit r. r Dempsey won tho the title by a n Knockout from Js Jg J SJ Willard Villard July 4 4 1919 Already ho has held till the title six years ears and two months Nothing can enn keep klep him from ulti ulti- ultimately mutely ly passing passin Johnsons Johnson's record But nul the mark marlc will not be accepted by ring historians unless he fulfills ful rul fut fut- fills fill his hi promise 1 to 10 battle baUle next su mer On tho the contrary Ms nl will date back to the on which he ho knocked out Luis Letia Firpo the Ihl prize cow of the tho Argentine two seasons ago D Dempsey's rec rec- record record ord then Ihen an DR a titleholder would b be b tour four years nd und a 1 few rew months and In that respect would not riot be I Ipa particularly pa noteworthy lV IX 1005 1003 Unquestionably Jeffries would have been far out in front as all an enduring champion if IC he had not retired In 1905 1906 after looking over the tho field and concluding no other logical I g a I opponents existed At the time the California Juggler boiler had been on top for six full years Had he stayed played In the ring and I continued to mingle facetiously with the round heels heel and loose- loose jacl jacHed of the tue th period af of- after ter I ho the modern mod tn custom he would ru pu- pu suel puI ey I ha have added three or four more morl years to 10 his total When hen Jeff Jet did come back In iii 1910 lured by a pot of gold 1 led dar enticingly In front of or hH hii Leak beak oy Tex Rickard it was as a II challenger chall not as cham cham- pion Jim Corbeit won the from John L. L A very valuable and useful prize will be be- given the first reader seader to fill flit In th ih last name of ot 11 1 th tighter fighter and Jut juit to 10 help the IheI I ro along we wo will divulge that Well Veil os as wo wt were wt-o saying Cor- Cor Corl 1 bt i. i l t won w the lo le In 1892 1392 and held e eroh it a little I I Ic a than t na five years year Bob Boh Fitzstmmons Fitzsimmons succeeded Cor Cot beet Iet and was champion for a trifle mot mOl e C than two Iwo years rl Tommy Burns Burn who crowded In in- into In Into to 10 he ho picture when tho the man at atthe I tho the gate Kato wasn't looking held on I Ifor for three years yearl Finally Johnson caught up tip with him hini In Australia and nn reduced hint him to a I state of ot In- In If not wholly recognizable able ble debris You will note noto no mention is made of the duration of ot John L.'s Ls robyn rein Have you out that last namo yet et It Is a stickler isn't it John L. L was a bare until he met Corb lt and th lii bare knue arent aren't consid- consid In this composition MX SIX VISA Yo MS Nor Is any mention made mado of the tho Inconsequential Marvin Hart up up- upon upon upon on whom Jeffries bestowed his lila lItI when he ha retired As s long as all we are arc feeling devil devilishly statistical I and everything we wc may as well carry carr the matter to Its painful limit and provo prove to life Ufe of a n. you ou that thai the average u based on heavyweight champion champion based th careers of ot the six preceding D 1 ls Is four tour and a half years This may m mean ml an nothing or even ven loss less to you OU but to the ing little man in the tho back row It may my mean everything or even moc moe At any rare ral It Is our mus mus- plaster tard-plaster and wo we Intend to stick to U it 00 |