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Show I d owning 2s ! mf FIGHT DOPE j Jj By Hardy K Doiiin CHAMPION JACK DEMPSET. the j greatest of all heavyweights w ho a few years ago was fighting preliminaries prelimin-aries at the Salt Lake Manhattan club for the so-called 'ham and" Is so-1 journtng at Salt Lake for a week, playing play-ing ono of the vaudeville houses, and bemoaning the fact that there isn't iSOme good heavyweights in the country coun-try to give him a battle, j Although the champion was uj j mighty busy man with his act and1 hundreds of requests and invitations to different functions for one cause or I another, ho lound time Thanksgiving (day to run out to the penitentiary and 'put on an exhibition With Sam latti-'mer latti-'mer for the inmates and wus given a rousing reception both for his exhibition exhibi-tion and the little talk he handed out. I While Jack was never considered I much of a talker und makes no bones of the fact that he would rather fight than act or talk, the writer was present pres-ent last Thursday when he made his ; little talk to the Inmates of the penitentiary pen-itentiary and It must be said that .since becoming champion, he lias acquired ac-quired a polish that was really surprising sur-prising and shows that he has Improved Improv-ed his mind as much as he has his body in tho past ifow vears Ills talk was not stereotyped and was deli- 1 1 lid a manner tba,t mad.- every one present pres-ent fool that it came right from tho 1 heart Although tho champion s time was short, he found time to talk to several of the boys personally and gave them lot of advioo that will no doubt help to keep them to the straight and narrow path In the future Ho also found time to shako hands with several sev-eral who wore in the hospital ward and unable to attend the exhibition and it is a safe bet that every man there will bo a booster for tho champion cham-pion from now on. MA.Y MT.ET JOHNSON In speaking of his future plana. Dempsoy said that he 1. ally had nothing no-thing definite In sight as far as bouLs were concerned, but stated that he was mighty anxious to get something to do at his profession and that ho stood ready to meet anyone at almost any time, providing of course it was someone in whom tho public had con-fidonco con-fidonco could give him a battle and thereby draw a gate that would be worth while. Tho champion has had all kinds of offers of considerable sums to meet different men who were willing to take a licking for tho loser's end of the money, but ho didn't feel that the public In general would approve of such matches and that he would pro-fer pro-fer to wait until such a time as a real contender had developed. He spoko very highly of Floyd Jonnson, the new 'hope from California, and admitted that lie would probably be the man when he would have to meet to defend his title before long. Johnson Is now matched with Bill Brennan and if ho can stop Brennan. which I think he .will, he will be tho most talked of L.,ntnnrlr.p in lh,- eiilintrV. The proposed match between Demp-sey Demp-sey and Strungler Lewis, tho heavy-weight heavy-weight wrestling champion, In which Dempsoy would box und Lewis wrestle, to sec which style was really the most affective as a means of self defense was talked of and the champion Is perfectly per-fectly willing, providing th public shows a genuine interest in BUCh u j match, but ho was very doubtful if I such a match would bo sanctioned. I Hyrum Dempsoy. tho champion's father, has been touring with him for 'the past couple Of months and having the time of his lite, so ho says, but he j (will probably remain here when tno Champion goes south for Jack bought him a little farm just south of the I city upon his arrival here, Junt to keep j him out of mischief, he- Bald. ODOWD IN FORM Mike O'Dowd. former middleweight Champion, and a regular champion when at has best. Is again recognized RS tho kingpin of that division in Sew j York, having won from Dave Rosen-burg Rosen-burg on a ioui iast Thursday night, although he had won practically all tho way up to tho timo of tho alleged foul. Rosenburg was recently declared tho mtddlfiwcight champion In New York bv the boxing commission when Johnny Wilson refuged to defend hla title thero and shows that the middle- 1 weight division Is not up to much at1 the present time, for it is a well known fuct that O'Dowd is far from being the man he was betore Wilson beat him, and even the chumplon of,this division will not be taken seriously until some youngster comes along and proves himself a real fighter If somo youngster young-ster llko Mickey Walker in the welterweight wel-terweight division should come along, and beat O'Dowd, and Wilson decisively, decisive-ly, it would add a lot of pop to the class. W AN I I D SI'ARRINl. PARTNERS Champion Jack Dcmpsey has trouble trou-ble In keeping enough 6parnng partners part-ners for his act as the life gets too strenuous for most of them after u, few shows, although ho tries his best not to maul them up too much, he Is Just naturally so much better and so full of pep In his exhibitions that ho cannot help mussing thorn up some, however, somo of the local heavyweights heavy-weights have come to the r-.-.. u. here and Sam Lattlmer. ono of the most promising youngsters around rtah has been taking him on and likewise Jim Ltndovv, the- iron man of the ring, who was looked upon m a. real comer In the heavyweight division up until the time he had the misfortune of get-ting get-ting his Jaw broke a little over a year ! ago. Jim states that if he can show anything against tho champion, he Is j going to get back in tho game again. |
