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Show I BOXERS TO GO IN WITH BARE HANDS Willard and Dempsey to Be Bandaged and Taped Before Be-fore Spectators. TOLEDO, O . July 1. Jess Willard and Jack Deinpsey Will go into (ho ring for the beavyweighl championship ron-j t$8l here Friday with barf hands and bandaging mil tripln? will be don in) iew of the .-p ( tator; anJ second of ih. heayywelgLj rivals. This an- nouncemcut w;,s made today by Tex j Rickard, promoter of the contest The j Veision to renur st the boxers to b:-nd-l r.po their haji '. in the ring is-regaidod j as a victory 1 r Wizard, who protested protest-ed against I h .r.ppey's plans to adju-t j ibf 'ape end Unudages on his bauds! While in the dressing room. What amoun; of tape and bandngeSj will bo used has not been determined. but Willard aid he would insist ur.o 1 ' a thin layer of cotton surgical band- apes and only enough tape to hold tlrv landagcs in place. Rickard and thei referee, OUIe Pecord, probably .ll, make a decision in this regard tomorrow. tomor-row. Final Arrangements Made Final arrangements regarding the details of the big contest were com-j pleted at a conference between the j boxers, manageih and Rickard and i each camp Icr.OWS Just what is ex-: pi I ;' d of the principals and Lheil Bi i onding brigade. The boxers will wear specially made five-ounce gloves and each will be allowed to have five sec-1 onds in their corners, including the manager or adviser as the case n'RJ be. They Will dress for the encou .iter in dressing rooms erected under the, stands and will enter the ring from ; camps which open within a few feet of the ring. '! he toss lor choice of I corners will not be made until the : day of the battk. Willard lnquj;ed whether Denir.;. j intended to grease his body js he heard was being done previous to the, daily workouts. He said that it did not make any difference to him which way ! the challenger appeared provided he j knew In ad' at ce and could do like-: wise, Dempsey Denies Greasing. Dempsey t'dd Rickard that he had rtecr greased his body at any time and had no intention of doing so fori the championship bout. Thi str.ic . racnt cleared the situation and there will be no anointing the body with oily matter at Rliy time during the lasi few hours before ihe clash Wink fal is a favorite trick of wrestlers it is rot the usual custom among boxers, al-' tnough offering certain advantages in! a long fisht. The oil or grease nibbed i into the skin until absorbed by the pores Immediately comes to the surface sur-face again when the athlete begin:- to perspire and soon his body is so Slippery Slip-pery that it la impossible to secure a firm hold or clinch in either wresting cr boxing, as the ease may be. Elaborate P:sns for Reporting Elaborate preparations are be'cg made to report the coming conten on a scale exceeding anything of the I ind at previous rmg battles of any welcht championship The record estab li bed si Reno with the gathering of newspaper writers and phoiogmphor for the Johnson-Jeflries fight will be easily surpassed here. Noted sport and specialty writers trom all parts of the country and Canada are pre- ni. or en route, ; nd hundreds r-t seats have been reserved In various sect ons of the arena tor their accommodation. There will be more than fifty wires set up at the ringside to carry the reports re-ports trom the scene of the conflic to every portion f America and to c; bit points for European service. I Special airplane service for the pho tographers has been planned and Frcm these low flying planes expert camera men. some of whom served in the same capacity with the army abroad-, will take films of the iL:htr in action ac-tion and the so nes In and around Ihe arena. Immediately the contest la lin-tshet! lin-tshet! several of these plans plan non-Mop non-Mop flights to Chicago and New York In order that the phoioerraphs may bo available for reproduction In Saturday papers. The most ambitions propo-,nl, j however, is a scheme to fly with the l pictures to iho Pacific coast in two re-! re-! lays These photographs will have no c n-i n-i nectin with tnc moving pictures taken al the ringside for exhibition purposes. |
