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Show . JACK DEHPSEY IS TIRING OF THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE AND IS EAGER TO DON GLOVES ; Jack Dfmps" is sick of the -how buine .Inrk Kearnv while clean BJ up a fortune for the heavyweight champion In the theatrical line, ha I i 'hla orn troubles trying to persuade .his charge that acting I? easier than fighting and fha' there la no rood ret aon for fempse kicking up a fUM Hand wanting to get into action in (he ' Irlns when there mem to br no one available at present that can give him a good battle. Jack is Just aching to gci at Berk ett or Carpentier or any other man who figures to have a chance with 'biro" said lack Kearns to a Polio i Gasfte's representative this week. "While he work la rn.j ." continued i Kearn. "nevertheless Jack likes to fight betier. and I know for a cci talnty that to meet Fulton. Beckett and ( arprntier on the one night would furnish more real enjoyable thrill-' to Hemps than appearing on the Mace could possibly offer him in a year." pempsev wants to get out of the-show, the-show, if possible, but inasmuch u he is signed to a contract he doesn't know whether it will be possible to leave or not The theatre huslnes- III realh undermining .lacks health H-weigh.- 1- - than 1" pounds, feel- bad all ihe time Hnd hates the stage "' Jimmv He Forrest, the man who pu Dcmpsev in shape io win ihe (ham j plonship of the world, advised him to give It up Jimmy saw Dempsey re-r re-r centlv and said that he nor- saw, B Jack look so bad. He told Jack to' I give up the stage and take a rest I Jack would have tossed it up lone ago but he has a contract and "contracts ( la contracts Jack says ho hasn't had enough ! sleep since" he entered his ettgage-! ettgage-! ment with the thc.-.trical people He i rant sleep on the trains even when he gets a chance to. And when he isn't on the road they are giving dinners din-ners in his bonor at every little town that he might be passing through ' This la all very well and Iemp. e feels honored, but his health isn't jieip u. Dempsey is going to quit tin- stage - as soon as he possibly can When 'hat ! may be no one knows He ha.s bad several attractive offers to enter ihe movies. The champion behew h" would like the alien! drama Bui when it comes to getting out on the stage and making his little how be-, fore the public Jack doesn't like it ! He wants to fight and that soon If be can persuade Fulton. Beckett and Carpentler to enter the ring wiih bim all in one night. Jack 111 be th b ' pleased man in the ring. A1 least they will each furnish him with a fraction frac-tion of a round's fun. Look Out for Willard Tex Riekard met a friend or bis from Kansas the other da and said friend slipped the big promoter an ew ful of stuff that almost knocked him flat. ; This fellow had just left Jess Willard." Wil-lard." said Tex. smiling at the i.ews. "and savs thai J OBI ll as black aa B Mexican He is working on his farm and Is harder than a slate pencil Hi told me 'hat Willard is lighter no than he was nt Toledo. Jess dldn'l lav off after the tight and fatten up as most fighters do. but pitched right into work the day he landed in Kan aas. and hasn't stopped yet "Willard thinks right now thai he's the best fighter In the world. He Mill believes that he was unlucky with Dempsey, and I wouldn't he- surprised to hear anv day now that he'd be will ing to back himself for 125,000 agatnsi Dempsey. "You know there are a lot of pco : pie who thought more of Willard afl r that Toledo fight than they did before B it. I've met a lot of people who thought thai fellow was a quiti-r. Thev're convinced now that not one" inch of him has the tang of rcw ardice. He fought until nature quit him. I don't think that I ever sow a grander display of garuenc.. He showed the same brand of courage that Lavlgne did against WalCOtl I think that he outdid Lavlgne Wll'iai was down seven limes and never re- I fused to get up. He might have quit l on any of these knockdowns and got j ' away with it. j "He nc er reslly thought of defeat, at all. The day before 'hr Fight (ess took me in his machine over to the I arena and we pat there for two bOUrfl j He wanted me to go into the moving t picture business with him and told me, I of all the money we'd have after tin ' bout "Why, I was in his dressing room . the day of the fight and he was all smiles. We sat there kidding for half an hour or so and finally, getting en and grabbing his robe. Willard sniJ : 'Well, let's go and have the damned thing over with " "Willard really thought that he d win In a round He didn't think th It was possible for a man to knock I bim down." Promising Young Heavyweight Out in Ohio they have a big young fellow who, from all indications, I likely to figure In the heavyweight di-j i vision of American pugilists This ! young man's name Is Dick O'Brien.' ind has all the attributes of the ' jesaful fighter He is Just twenty-t twenty-t three years of age. stands 6 'jet 7 'aches, weighs 200 pounds and has ai reach of eighty-six Inches That ac Wally describes a husky piece of Am-! 1 rican manhood O'Brien was dlScoV ired by the Cincinnati sporting man who Is proud of the nickname "Bidd ' Btehop, and who is known to all right 'ana from tbe Atlantic to the Pacific. '(.' Uv1n followed the boxing game for , i quarter-century or more Wh n he fccated O'Brien. Bishop did noi get utclted and try to blow a trumpet loud Miougb to be beard all over the coun-j coun-j :ry, sounding the praises of his pro- 'age. On the contrary he went to work b the moat quiet manner developing t he man's fighting abilitv and -;rad tally bringing him each time agani&t uglier game as they went along The , (uccess of this manner of developing I a asplxir-i young fighter is proven iy the renult of Mr Riahopa efforts. i- ( Pnen haa fought twenfy-aeven matches, of which he has won all r I one contest, which was declared aJ draw. In the contest he won he. (knocked out his opponents in twenty-two twenty-two matches. Now that is some roc , ! ord and one any fighter should be proud of. and yet Mr Bishop in not boosting any of OBrien'a fiatlc abll-ity, abll-ity, claiming that he is a vrorld-bealer. rr ii-ing any of the methods usual w.ih the boosting fraternity of raan-J Sgera of fighters He speaks of Drien "The boy Is Just a good prospect, and T feel that he Is going to make good." This method i In 'contrast to that of the men handling Bob Martin, another aspiring young tighter, who is being touted as a fit Opponent for Champion Jack Demp-ej Demp-ej Mr Bishop seems to think that! th' ber wa would be for Martin' i to meet O'Brien and show that he 5s j qualified to defeat men who make no claim to championship qualifications.! and there are a lot of sporting men! who will agree with him in this i pe( $ Mr Bishop intends to bring O'Brien east during the coming winter, win-ter, together with another fighter he has named Young Sandow, and have iheni thoroughly tested against the best young fistic talent in this part of the country. L oo |