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Show DEMPSEY DEFEATS WILLARD. Champion Throws Up the Sponge at End of Third Round. Toledo. In one of the speediest and moat one-sided battles which ever de-cidod de-cidod a big fistic event, Jack Dempsey on July 4 won the title of world's champion heavyweight boxer. To all intents and purposes the Utah boy whipped the huge Jess Willard, favorite in the meager betting, in one round. Dempsey thought the referee had announced him winner and actually left the ring. But he was called back and the butchery Continued for two rounds more, when Jess, sitting sit-ting in his corner with a bewildered look on his swollen countenance, failed to respond to the gong for the fourth round. "It was no use to continue," said the ex-champion. "My strength went from me in the first round." Dempsey was breathing hard when the fight ended, but it was from exertion exer-tion and not from punishment. The attendance was below expectations expecta-tions . Seats were built for eighty thousand, and the estimate was that not more than half of these were occupied. oc-cupied. Speculators lost heavily. WILL ENFORCE DRY LAW. Arrests to Follow Violations of the Prohibition Measure. Washington. Test cases on the sale of beverages containing more than one-half one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol will be brought immediately by the department depart-ment of justice in all jurisdictions where such cases are not now pending. "We propose to make Immediate arrests ar-rests of persons who violate the wartime war-time prohibition law, according to our interpretation thereof," Attorney General Gen-eral Palmer said on Tuesday. "The department does not intend, however, to be swept off its feet the first day that prohibition comes into effect. We will proceed in an orderly fashion to establish whether intoxicating beverages bever-ages prescribed by the law include those having less than 2 per cent alcohol." WILLIAM E. ALLEN William E. Allen, formerly United States attorney at Dallas, Tex., has been named as temporary successor to A. Bruce Bielaski, former chief of the bureau of investigation, department depart-ment of justice. |