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Show HARRY WILLS IS ONE BIG CANDIDATE FOR ill WITH PRESENT Wm CHftMPHN I 'Colored Fighter Only Rival for Jack Dempsey's Crown Who Appears to Have at Least a Chance With Utah Battler NKW 5TOBK, 'wmi - -lack Dempsey's European tnp promises to be Little more than the usual tourist sight-seeing trip When it is considered that this country has been unable to pro-duce pro-duce a heavyweight conceded a chance of giving the hard-hitting champion any sort of a battle, it is hardly likely that Europe can do SO. England has Joe Beckett, Tom Cowler. Bombardier Wells. Albert .Lloyd. Frank Goddard and George Couk, all veterans who have seen I their best davs with the exception of Cook, who does not rank very jhigh, as the fast slipping Beckett stopped him the other night. France has I'arpentier, already defeated by Dempsey, Journee and Xeillcs. The last two are jokes. In America, among the white heavies, there is an jequal dearth of material Mst of the well-known men of recent history have dropped out of sight, or, if they are heard of. it is merely a line or two thai they have kissed the canvas once more. Fred Fulton, uice a promising white hope-, whose speed and size : kept many others out of the same ring, is anybody's meat since Bartley Madden demonstrated that the ponderous plasterer h id nothing noth-ing anyone need be afraid of. Bill Brennan and Billy Miskc are still sin, win;.' something of ' their old-time form, but as Dempsey has taken both of them it run! hardly be said thai either is .-ntitlcd to consideration for a match with the champion Outside of Harry Wills, the negro heavyweight, there is not much' uf promise in the heavyweight division. |