Show DEMPSEY BOUT WITH SHARKEY LOOMS LOOM IN EAST Rickard Will Meet Jack This Week July 21 Is Probable Date DateD By D B SPARROW Sl Special Correspondent of or orTho The Trie Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 by Consolidated Press Association NEW MEW YORK Juno 18 The The pugilistic pugilistic listic horizon was brightened ed considerably this week by Tex i RIckard's a n n- n nf ri f 1 noun cement nt that tha I he will bring the ther r two Jacks Demp- Demp r I sey scy and Sharkey t- t f together on July Jub JUl s t 0 21 at the Yan Tan Yankee Yant TanI t I j kee kec stadium in New York J City Only the matter of ot compensation 1 for Cor the th former champion remains to be threshed t i out out by Dempsey Dempse t t and Tex and the former is Is' rushing rush IllS IllS' I cast to argue that thai Dl little matter out Demp c has been training hard bard hardIn bardin In the mountains of ot California for seven weeks The one time as as- assassin assassin sassin of the ring thInks he Is la fit and ready to take up where he be left off last fall Calt Tackling Shar- Shar Sharkey Sharkey Sharkey key speaks well for Cor his courage But those who ho make malce a practice of ot Ing the methods of ot fighting men do not like the Idea of ot Jacks Jack's taking on a a. real tough one right off the reel They point to so many failures In the past and pre pro predict predict dict diet the sane same result for ol Dempsey Dempse Dempsey is still popular despite his poor showing against Tunney last September He was and maybe is for Cor that matter one on of the greatest fighting men of his Inches that ever entered a a. ring Comparing him with the timers old leads only to senseless arguments that mean nothing The facts are are arc that Dempsey did everything that was expected and asked of ot him He lie attracted the greatest s crowds in the history of pugilism and fur fur- furnished furnished mailed some some to be nev thrills Those who saw w Jack bat bat- batter ter tar the mountain man-mountain Jess Wit Wll- Willard lard ard into submission saw MW him floor Luis FIrpo several times only to run into a a. ponderous wll xvi swing and go head over heels over the ropes and then climbed back Into the ring dazed and groggy will wili never forget him And when Jack unleashed the fury tury of ot his crushing attack and knocked out Firpo he furnished the climax to one of the most thrilling fights tights in the history of the ring That Is why Demp- Demp Dempey Dempsey Dempsey sey ey is still stilt popular The fans think he will do the santa same again should he be called upon to rise to supreme heights PAYS 1 YS PENALTY Before BeCore Dempsey had so many money making matters to look af after af- af after after ter he fought for the love of ot it That Is what made him such a destructive fighting man After he had scaled the heights Idle idle- Idleness idleness ness and lack of ot ring competition the bane of ot all alt fighting men wrought his downfall down tall It is the penalty of success succesS There Is no doubt that Dempsey would have done the th better belter thing by y whipping himself into real fighting condition this past winter by jy taking part In a series of ot minor matches It surely would not have done him any harm There Is nothing like actual ring work to t bring a man back Unless all signs along the trl tr I of disappoint disappoint- disappointed ed comebacks go gl wrong rong Jack will have a hard time of H I against the sturdy Lithuanian from Boston Sharkey In the last eight months has las had five fights tights These Th se have lifted him out of ot semi obscurity Into nto a commanding position as I challenger chal for tor the heavyweight t title Hie Dempsey has had one fight I III in n four tour years ears No matter matt r how I good rood he was ras It was sas a ho he holas hohas has las not Improved any Sharkey unlike his real self Is not telling the world what he lie Is going to do to Dempsey Dempse He has been effectively muzzled and from now on Intends to do all his talk talk- t talking lk- lk Ing ng with his fists lIe He will Insist that the tight fight be over the long route oute He figures 15 rounds will be c plenty to tire the former cham- cham champion pion lon and give him a chance to get In n some effective work worl when hen the rust that has accumulated mulat d on Dempsey's Dempses fighting blade shows show sho through the veneer he e has put on onn In n training Jousts BOXER DOXER SUPREME Sharkey with his superior boxing knowledge and ring generalship can box rings around the former er champion champlon His ills left is on a a. par pir with the jabs Tunney used to stop slop Dempsey's Jempsey's charges charges' last September Stiff like beam thrusts stopped Dempsey dead In his tracks and made him a mark for the quicker moving Tunney lunne Sharkey figures s Ito he 10 can do the same It may take ilm hini 10 rounds to slow Dempsey down and he wants the other ther five to o make the decision certain Dempsey Dempse Is set sel on erasing the blot lot on his record He wants to prove to the world that he was not himself when hen he floundered through 10 rounds with wilh Tunney He has picked a good fighting man mann In n Sharkey as ns the first step In his rejuvenation The spirit Is willing How about the flesh |