Show TWO FA FAMOUS OUS RING RINO STARS IN BIG BOUTS Wills VilIs Faces Paulino While Dempsey Meets l Youthful Sharkey L By ALAN ALAS J. J GOULD Associated Press Sports Editor NEW JEV YORK July 11 By By The As As- Associated Associated 1 1 It It Is a peculiar twist of sports fortune that tint within eight days this I TIT week and next the 1 ring will witness t I fights tights by bythe the two men who a. a 1 1 less than a II year car I ago stood around the heavyweight do r peak one the thea a j champion and the theother t I other considered a t leading menace v K Keven even If sidetracked 9 t I It would have h havet a v e er r t 1 taken the seventh t i. i I son of ot a seventh had hadL t I i son to have L J 1 the boldness to pre pre- b. b B. B diet dict In the sum sum- summer s summer lAULI 1 LLO O. O c r mer of 1926 1 2 that these two Jack J a c k is kD Dempsey D and Harry Wills were to fall from their positions within a fort fort- fortnight fortnight fortnight night of ot each other as they did arid nd l In another 12 months be trying to tOl get back bac into the picture each trying to sidestep tep the decline that comes with Ith age Within a few days ds after Gene Tun Ton Tunney Tunney Tonney ney had td dethroned the man he had trailed In a vain title hunt for five years cars Harry Wills WllIs was v decisively whipped by Jack Jac Sharkey Making his first appearance In the ring since that October night the gi giant gi- gi Clant giant ant negro battles 3 the bounding Basque Paulino Uzcudun hare Wednesday On Thursday of next week the same Sharkey that upset Wills wms will attempt to stall U tha come-back come of Dempsey Fate seems to have ha cast the 25 year-old year Sharkey for the role of ot Jack- Jack the Gant though there seems substantial reason to believe e he will find the task of conquering the former champion more difficult to accomplish than the Job of ot vanquishing otan an Wills last fall NO PROSPECT PItOS There Is this decided difference however in the present pres nt outlook for or DemPsey Demp l and Wills The big negro neno even should he defeat the younger more agile and stronger Spaniard has no prospect of coming back into title consideration After seventeen en years in the ring Wills the exp agree has put his future behind him Dempsey cy on the other hand has hasa a return championship fight tight with Tunney in if he can defy d fy time recover the accuracy of Ills his l s old devastating attack and whip hip the youthful Sharkey Shue The monopoly of ot heavyweight in the limelight this year has put Its usual jinx Jim on the ambitions of the smaller fellows to figure in title bouts Or rather it has dampened damp ned the en enthusiasm en- en enthusiasm of ot promoters for champion champion- championship ship fights tights which would bs be obscured I Iby by the focus of Interest and atten atten- attention attention I tion on Dempsey and Tunney I In the metropolitan sector only the Latzo Dundee-Latzo welterweight battle has enlivened the smaller divisions and it was Vias far tar from a financial suc sue cess eisa c Even en the proposed d Delaney Delaney- light-heavy light title tussle or- or dl arlly an outdoor natural has failed to la arouse the expected Interest It has been postponed a month until August 11 DIG BOOM noo YEAR YEARA I A similar situation existed in 1923 19 3 the last big boom year among the i heavyweights when Luis Lois Firpo was making his spectacular advance to a I fight with Dempsey Dempey That year pro pro- promoters promoters promoters staged such notable engage engage- engagements engagements ments among the title fellows as the Kilbane Dundee Dundee-Criqui e Villa Villa- Wilde Wilson Greb-Wilson Greb- Greb Wilson and second Leon Leon- ard bouts but nearly all suf suf- suffered suffered big financial losses In four tour title bouts in the lighter classes at atthe atthe atthe the Polo grounds promoters lost more than but Tex Rickard stepped In with the Firpo Dempsey Firpo-D Firpo climax In the same arena to draw approximately from a ca capacity ca- ca capacity capacity crowd of ot |