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Show Ii I wsWakkbIgIF 1 FANS; MAY MEET GEORGES iJ Champion Willingly Accepts Invitations to Aid Disabled Soldiers; Utah Mauler Will Occupy Ringside Seat at Lewis-Carpentier Tussle I BY SE ARROW McGANN. KJCW YORK April 29. The c i i.f boxlnp aa .H1 Inb rn Ltloi il sport will he helped L.y .lack I . rn t s Irli' to Europe, in th opinion of Harry Dime, the western sporting man who lias been In Europe, mixing up with listlc matters for more than a year -uid witnessed Dempsey's reception in Lropdon and Paris. The EnRllsh. -a: J Dime in a letter received today, expected ex-pected to greet a great lowbrowed, heaw-jowlcd caveman. who talked with" a growl and ate meat with hi" v fingers. 1 Instead, they saw a clean-cut likc- ahle. intelligent chap with laughing Jill! eyes and pleasinj? manners. All the select bar rooms that were dolled up for Jack's visit have not seen him at all and never will- And, writes Dime, he Has shown much more interest in giving the two big capitals the onceover, once-over, visiting points of Interest, than he has in mingling with the sporting crowds. Wherever Jack has gone in England he has shed luetre on the fighting profession GEOlK.l s S. I.I I S "Even' organization in England. " wrltea Dime "that needs funds and found it not beneath them ask -avors of a prizeflghtei ha el i Jack's attendance as a sp--i t.itnr at ehow3. or as an exhibition to top-liner. top-liner. Jack Is ready an. I trilling to do nil he can. but at present it has been bsolutely necessary for him to con-une con-une his promise to causes relating to idck and Incapacitated soldiers. He will appear in tho Interests of both in France and in England." So far as fighting goes, says Dime, there will bo little or no talk of a battle, bat-tle, with Carpentier until after the Frenchman eets through with Ted i Kid) Lewis This battle which takes place a week from next Thursday, is interesting all of Europe and Dempsey has taken a box for the. show. Beat-L, Beat-L, Ing Lewis. Georges may be expected to show some signs of Interest !n several sev-eral propositions relating to a scrap ' l with Dempsey In Europe. I "It will probably take place in i lie 'course of another trip to England, however," writes Dime. "For Jack seems firm In hifl statement that this is men Iv a pleamir.- trip, i rest oml that his next battle will bo In thej United States." KEEN INTERI 81 HER1 Dime suys that in addition to inter- 1 est over Dempsey, which has been as J keen in England as that manifested j over Charley Chaplin, the whole country coun-try is following with absorbmu interest inter-est the Investigation of th assertion that a prizefighter lies burled in Westminster West-minster Abbey, where none hut kings, prelates and Illustrious British soldiers, sol-diers, writers, poets and painter! have been supposed to lie. I The fighter in question is or rather I Was John Brnughton. the man who Invented the boxing glove and has al-j frays been regarded as the father of British pugilism. Broughton, who: died in 1789, did not Iobc a fight until I he was 46 years old. when Slack boat J him and retired from the rintr. His. great patron was the Duke of Pum-1 berland. who had him made a yeoman of :h- guar,! The mixtip Is due to the fact that, in Lambeth church Is an old stone) with an Inscription to tho effect that John Broughton lies beneath. But there is a similar stone In Westminster Westmin-ster Abbey. Also on the register of the abbey is an entry under date of January 21. 1789. to the effect that Broughton that day had been tombed in the West Cloister, aged M After the name on tho abbey tombstone tomb-stone Is a blank space It Is said that it had been intended to carve here a record Of Broughton's pugilistic prow-tm, prow-tm, v'Ut that the dean of the abbey would not permit this. The Englishman that can beat Dempsey thus has a glorious future marked out for him along the line of thl Broughton precedent. For In Copping the world's laurels, the British Brit-ish champion not only could live glor-lously glor-lously In ihis world, but lie in a top-1 hole place after he has passed on. . |