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Show liRLIN MS Champion Slips Away on Freight Elevator to Escape Es-cape Enthusiasts BERLIN. May 1. (By the Associated Associat-ed Press. "The break-away" rules were disregarded by a crowd of 2.000 frenzied fight fans who elbowed one' another In a mad rush to get a closo view of Jack Dempsey on his arrival hero Sunday His inability to get away, adn krers, which lmperlledl lire and limb on tho narrow station platform, finally forced the champion! to Jump on the baggage elevator which carried him and his party to a storage, room below. LONE COP DAZED Here there was Fresh struggling and closo "ln-fightlng" as tho crowds surg-J ed In from the street A lono policeman police-man detailed for station duty wae bowled over and when last seen was perched on a baggage truck straining; his neck In an endeavor to discover Dempsey. Tho champion look the tempestuous welcome good naturedly and shook as many hands as be could reach. out- side tho station he was greeted With unending volleys of "hoch. Tschake!" For democratic Germany not only; views boxing and knock-outs as newly discovered sciences, but also as ob- vlous democratic Institutions, and as, tho crop of "native sons ' still is severely se-verely limited foreign exponents with established pedigree.-1 may ?ai.-l count' on an approving welcome. W Ut II 1 K FAD 6 Geogros Carpentlcr probably would h ive had an equal ova' ion for the1 German fight fans ure cultivating ctn- j Hplcuous cosmopolitanism in their enthusiasm. en-thusiasm. No fixed itinerary fori ucmpBey a iwo nays vjsk nas ueen arranged, ar-ranged, according to Jack Kearns, who Is strenuously opposed to an exhibition exhibi-tion for which the Berlin fight promoters pro-moters are clamoring "Please go way and let me sleep" was Dempsey's greeting to a crowd of admirers who invaded hie department In tho Hotel Adlon "After doing London Lon-don and Paris. I am pretty well tired out and am here to recuperate." Dempsey and his party will return to London Wednesday. 00 |