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Show A guj has niadr? a neat machine Which plays' the game of chess; it moves with Capablanca's skill And Murphy s cleverness. Now Why uet Rfet this guy to build i A boxing man sometime'' A dummj that can fight like Fitz r Jeffries In his prime I For that s about the only way To stop this fellow Jack; A dummy wouldn't fl e l his blow And how he tould hit back' Tommy Ryan, once tho champion' lightweight, is a wise old boy and ho has gone out west to lend tour to the movie picture colony In Los Angeles. He and Kid Md'ov intend to stag some fisticuffs tor the flllums. Tommy is Interested In the career! of Jack Dempeey anel, like many other old timers, he is not Inclined to hail the champion Jis the greatest ever i He admits there isn't a man in sights who can give 1 leinpsey a battle, but; In the same breadth be remarks that Dempsey has never met a really gooei' man. 1 v s 'Willaid was like an ox. so big and; fat ami clurasj he coulel scarcely un- track himself," says Ryan. ''Dempsey deliberately aimed evcrv blow and hit! 1) i ill when and where he pleased " IPs boot with Fulton W08 a 1 Iggcr faiec Whether the plasterer was knocked out on purpose or simply I was scared to death, may never be known, bti; the battle had a peculiar odor. "Dempsey's meetings with Plynn, Mori' s ,'iid the rent were just setups. This talk cf Mlske being classy enough to give him a battle was bun!. "Dempsey is a rough and tumble figbt r. but be has yet to meet a first - cias heavyweight of the I ype of Sullivan, Sul-livan, Jeffries. Pltzslmmons, ( orbett and men of that callbli There are no men of that claaa in sight today, if there were. Dempsey would get his, trim ming.i. "I don't like the way Jack carries his hands. He carries them .a low-that low-that some day some -m.iji boxer may knock the top of his head off before he can get his guard 'Jp-" So much for Tommy Ryan While; he Bays all of Dempaey's opponents, are setups he admits in the same I breath that Jack outshines the field' bee-ause there are no boxers in sight I of his class. I ' i ntli such a boxer appears Dempsey is due to make a great deal of money. some of v hb n he may save. |