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Show Jim Cor belt Copied Dempsey, J The NonparieVs Boxing Style By "TAD." NEY YORK. April 20. A bunch of, fight bugs were seated around a flock, of nut sundaes at the Friars club the other night and of course the subject chirped on was boxing. It finally narrowed nar-rowed down to the original Jack Dempscy. Some said that he wan husky. Others said he was frail. Others Oth-ers swore that lie was a big- fellow and still others that he was small. They finally got Jim Corbett out of the billiard "room to ask him things. I It happened that Jack Dempsey, "The Nonpareil," was Jim Corbett's jherep. "Jack Dempscy," howled oCrbetl, when they asked him if he kuew anything any-thing about him. "Huh" piped -iui, putting his cue into the hand of the listening waiter, land grabbed a chair. "! know almost everything about that guy! , "Say. when I was nineteen and box-, ing daily at the Olympic club in Frisco, Fris-co, the one lellow in my mlnu s eye all the time was Jack Dempsey. 1 didn't tell anyone, but I'd spend my last dollars to see that fellow fight and I didn't miss him once when he was West. I used lo sneak into his! training quarters to pipe him off. Of course, he didn't know me. Only the boys at the Olympic club and a few others knew that I loved boxing. At I that time I never even thought of becoming be-coming a professional. Corbett Copied "The Nonpareil's" Style. "I'll tell you boys the one thing rep I made as a feihter, sidesteppcr and ducker. I copped from Jack Dempsey. He was the marvel of his time. Pale, rim like a race horse, quiet and cool that was Dempsey. "One day as I was boxing with some fellow at the club, Mike Cleary, the heavyweight, came in with Dempsey. Thev looked around and Dempsey said" to Cleary: 'Let's get up a little perspiration. Come on and box a few round.' Cleary had a sore mouth, I remember, and didn't want to box, but suggested to Dempsey that I'd do, "I'll give you my word I sort of shook at the idea of boxing my hero. Well, he finally stripped, and we got to going. He didn't know at tne tiniej that I knew most all of his moves and feints. I did. 'He stood with his head way back and feinted like Tommy 'Ryan. 1 h i guess it must have been two or three minutes before one of us made a lead. ,ll He wanted meio come in at him, but 1 I didn't want to fall for any tricks in ' I front of my admirers, and just waited ( M him ouL m "Quite a crowd collected when they heard that Jim Corbett who boxing Jack Dempsey. Gee, they expected wonderful things because at the time UjH I was amateur champ of the club. H "Well, we got warmed up finally. 1 6H remember it was just 6 o'clock at H night. When I say that we got warmel up I mean that wq got to going at jH top speed. It got so good that they began yelling to fellows to watch us. We had no rest period, but just kept jH "Jack would clout me and a bit later 'H I'd catch him. Members came run ning out of the bathroom with towels IH over their heads. Other fellows ran IIH in from the billiard room with cues in their hands. It was the oddest audience you ever saw. il Dempsey Made Corbett's Nose Bleed. "Dempsey and I went steadily until Bl 6:30 o'clock. I remember it ended III with my nose bleeding all over me. Ill Jack hooked me with his forearm. You HH know, he was a wrestler and knew KB more holds t-an Gotch. That was the M first time that my nose ever bled in Wm my life. 1 was as mad as a wot hen, lljl but Dempsey grabbed my amis and NJ said: 'Let's not be bad friends.' tm He put his arms around me and fl we went into wash up. He. asked my IB name, how long I'd been boxing, how H tall 1 was and how heavy I was. He III " 'Jim, I wash I was your size and m had your future.' We weighed then. M Dempsey tipped the beam at exactly l 144 and I veighed 160 pounds. We ti became great, friends after that, box- 11 ing often and having quite a laugh fit each time about me losing my goat over the bloody nose. 1 "What a marvel he was? In his I prime he was all by himself. He was I the lightest middleweight champion t that ever lived, too. He never weighed more than 148 pounds. I During the Tae Ping rebellion ln vi China in 1S50 women as well as men 1 1 served in the rebel junks, while the Mm rebel army also recruited women. km |