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Show Bob Martin Eager To Clash in Tilt With Jack Dempsey America's fig-tit ing men of yesterday, tho hundred? f thousands of soldiers wno wont to Europe )n the biggest war. nre now back with iholr champion Hi s lolj, j Martin Akron (Ohio) bov, winner of .hi heavyweight title of the American expe- dit ionury forces. Two million strong, his former com-trades com-trades in arms are back of him now to wrest the world's heavy weight champion-.'hlp champion-.'hlp fiom .J;i-k Dempsey. Martin is not only h champion of the American cxp'.--idilionary forces and army he showed j ull of the allies lots that was new in I the ring game at the Inter-allied tournament. tourna-ment. None of the allies' armies can j produce a man al the Pershing s-tadium ; to stand against Martin of the t S. A. j On July .. when Dempsey put the ; flora! wreath on Willard's career as a heavyweight championship holder, TUartin j w as in the ring In Paris So was .Ion -Lnee, the Rraneh army's best heavy weigh! He was put away by the K O. , route in his third round by Martin Cap-(Hin Cap-(Hin Ooghill, Austrian army champion, wont to sleep in 52 seconds of the third round With Uob in Pails. In all, Martin won five bouts while pinning on ihe American expeditionary forces championship. champion-ship. His first fight in the Inter-allbd tournament was with Fay Kaiser in" a ten-round mill Kaiser lasto. the limit, but Martin won a clean-cut decision. All of Dob's other baltlea In tho Ahum'-can Ahum'-can ex perl It lonory forces ended the same, when he wallopped 'cm for a knockout. Thousands of doughboys who crowded Into Perehlng stadium, the greater thousands thou-sands who were turned nwny and the hundreds of thousands of other khaki-clad khaki-clad Americans oi the American expedi tionary forces have little !oubt that their champion can lead Dempsey to the place 1 where ull heavyweight champions go sooner or later. Ask any returned doughboy dough-boy what Martin has and he'll tell you Dob carries a sack of grenades In I. Is tigh mi t and a walloping lottery of .""s in his left. Likewise he's full of pep and near the ideal fighting man. Martin stated today that his goal Is .lack Dempsey's championship belt. Bob is not going to try and annex the trophy untl' he has proven his right as a challenger. chal-lenger. "There is a trail ahead yet that I'll have to travel." said Martin. I'm ad-Justing ad-Justing myself now to civilian life I'm going to make it plain that I'm entitled to go after Dempsey. "With proper preparation I can win o r lack 1 lempsey. "I'm going to let the public see what 1 can do. ' Then I'm going after Dempsey I'll win when I meet him." Martin arrived In Akron from bis home at Terra Alia. V. Va. Because he spent his boyhood in Akron and bis many backers back-ers there. Bob Is going to train In the Rubber City Akron sports will be ready with their rubber-made thousands when their boy needs any coin. So his ehain-! ehain-! pionship argosy will be buoyed up witn gold. Aside from the results be has delivered thus far in his career Martin has the appearance of a champion, and It is lorne out b his age and physique. He is 24 years old and when conditioned r eight 195 pounds. Right now he tips the scales at 200 pounds Martin has signed up Jlmmie Bronson of Joplln. Mo , as manager. They are after more louts. but already have a few in line that will go somewhere, probably, prob-ably, in proving what Martin had to sa above Captain Bob Boper. Bill Brennan and some others of his weight are on tha scalp-hunting list now Martin's host of soldier admirers and his friends want the lad to show bis fistful of grenadea and .77s to the doubters. OO |