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Show BTgossip of f:j i it THE RING g Is the chsuuplon fighter a mor formidable opponent than champion cham-pion wrestler" Jaci. i-nipe t,, heavyweight ehamplon of the ring; Strang'er Lewl holds the hfaLvyweighl. wrestling honors. What chance would Dernpsev have against J,! n a mixed meich Would the tier p-producing wallop packed by Dempsey prove more effective ef-fective than th- bone-breaking holds of Lewis ' This question has been revived by the recent wire report, that Dempsev w.g not averse to meetlnjr Lewis in a mixed match A year ago. when Stanislaus Zbyssko was th champion. I raised the argument a to the superiority of the wrestler and boxer If two champions of the same class met 1n a mixed bout. I put the question to Dempsey and Jr. k s answer was most emphatli i Pit hiNt. ,r k "I'll knock out Zbyssko and a half dozen other champion wrestlers In the same rln OD the same night. "All that would be necessary for mc to trim Zbyszko would be to sink couple of punches In that bay window win-dow of his. cross a eouplc of rlgh: banders to the jaw. and it would be all over. "A good wrestler hasn t a cliance With an equally good fighter." The question of a match w 1th ' 1 Dempsey and what he thought ot his chajices was put to Zbyszko. "In a match with Dempsey 1 would immediately force him to the floor." said Zbyszko That would enable me to got my deadly holds working i and thereby render Dempsey's best 1 punches far less effective. OOIiDS BETTER THAN PUNCH "Dempsey Is a great fighter but hi knows nothing of v.rtllng. It Is an easy matter to force an lne.p-rienecd 1 wrestler to the floor. Once I got Dempsey on the mat the contest would 1 ...on I" f: er "The fitciit-T wi.i always a.t the' mercy of the wrestler in mUed ; mateh " , i The; proposed match aroused so 1 much comment. I asked a score of the leading sport, writers for their opinions. On om conceded Zbyssko the margin. Later, the Idea was tried out In a ; i. .if I o2. ii mat. I.i s hetweeti flKhters ' and wrestlers possessing merely j local reputations. In every case the wrestler was victorious. A match between Dempsey and Lewis would settle no momentous ' question but it would prove mighty interesting while it lasted, regardless 'of who was the vii lor. |