Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1926, Page 39

SP ORTS MANAGER “CONNED” JACK INTO BEING GREAT FIGHTER Defeat of Willie Meehan ent Coming Champion’s Stock Sky High After Kearns Forced Promoter to Change $20 Guarantee to 25 Per Cent. BY JACK N driving home to Dempse; I world titles to new champions. stressed with Demp: Day KEARNS. the importance of left-hooking, I told him that left hooks always paved the way for the knockout that brought 1 wasn't spoofing. It is a fact that I in and day out we schooled him. He had got Marty Farrell’s weaving and bobbing style down pat. All this time, when not coaching Dempsey, I was tossing out the old bally. my battle cry him into fame. Simpson, the promoter. “Well, Jack,” he began. done your stuff fine .uul dandy. Nev that big egg of yours $20 makes me T made 'em eat it up. and though he might “Dempsey, ne> heavyweight champion,” was get licked the next time out, I sung About three days before |he fight 1 dropped in to see He was tickled pink “It looks like a complete sell out. You've er better ballyhoo anywhere. Giving a big \\mner on this fight. I've been hanging around for a break like this for yea just a moment enty dollar “Just a moment, What's this about t Did T get you right?" “Twenty dollars is what and that's what you'll ge 1 gave him a dirty opened up: _‘Why Y, Simpson. Who s anything about $207 Do you suppose I've been spilling all this ballyhoo for twenty bucks? Twenty per t is what 1 said. and you Well, he ra you said and then sed the devil. Kicked like a steer. I let him rave on. I had him hooked. Dempsey was the draw. He had brought them in to buy tickets. His was the name that was blazing across the sport pages. Simpson was desperate. Finally Gets 25 Per Cent. When T threatened to take my man out he wound up by adding 5 per cent to the 20 I demanded. He learned a lesson in closing a deal right there. But he didn't have to hog it. He made plenty on the show. A different Dempsey from the one Al Norton introduced me to got into the ring three days later with Willie Meehan. He plastered him good and plenty. Of course, they tried to dis- count Dempsey’s great work by - ing it was an off night with Meehan. I guess it was. He didnt think Dempsey was that good and had taken things for granted. It was funny to hear the fans trying to explain it. Few of them wanted to give Dempsey credit for having improved. The defeat of Meehan. sent Demp- sey's stock sky high with the other promoters and I made the most of it. The ballyhoo went sizzling. 1In the meantime 1 went right back to work on Dempsey. He still was full of flaws and I tried to correct each and every one of the mistakes I had seen him make against Meehan. 1 kept him going in the gym and he was on the road every morning. He worked hard and I began to like him better than ever. He was a fine com- panion and he tried to do everything to make good. Dempsey Doubted His Prowess. But the ballyhoo had startled him. He was seeing his name in type that he little dreamed existed. He couldn't make it out at all. Not once, but dozen times he would stop in his work and, looking me right in the eye, he'd say: “Jack, I really can't fight like that. Tou're making me a fighter. I know you think I can fight, but it’s you that are doing the fighting in the papers. You've got me half be- lleving it myself, when as a matter of fact I know I can't fight up to those kinds of claims. You've just conned them all into it and you've conned me along with the rest of them. You'll find out that I can't live up to that ballyhoo.” I'd stop that every time with this speech: “Boy you're a natural. Don't worry about not living up to the bally- hoo. You're the next champion of the world. You're a great fighter. came back at me about didn’t T wipe out that Hadn't Norton biffed Demp- sey all over the place. Why duck him if Dempsey was as good as I said he was? ‘Well, that was just what I wanted. T didn't like the idea of that mark be- ing against Dempsey so I sought the match. We met him three weeks later and when Norton saw the robe fall off of Dempsey’s shoulders he al- most rolled off his stool. He little dreamed that Jack had filled out and improved so in every way. He had pink cheeks now and there were lines to his shoulders. Bush League Stuff Again. T had been adding speed to Demp- sey’s other studies and had impressed upon him the importance of taking the fight right out of the other fel- low’s hands before he had chance to get along. It was my cld bush league stuff used over again. The bell rang and 1 turned him loose on Norton. “Run right over there and hit that chump on the lug before he can get his hands up,” I told Dempsey. Bang went the bell! Bang went Dempsey’s short left hock! And bang went Nor ton’s head on the floor! Dempsey had scored a knockout In 38 seconds. Up to that time T had not settled on just how good Dempsey was. Of course, as I worked along with him, day after d: I saw great possibilities in him but it wasn't until he flattened Norton that I believed the boy could Iy fight. 1 hadn't been kidding myself no matter how loud I sang his praises. But when Norton hit the floor, 1 knew T had something for he had obeyed instructions to the letter, under fire. And T'll say this for Dempsey. From beginning to end he was the easiest fighter to handle that I've ever had anything to do with. He would do what you told him, when you told him and would not take it upon bim- self to impose his own ideas jn a fight. He never changed from the first day to the last in that respect and it was a pleasure to teach him things. But in the early days he had that little fear of not making good. He kept telling me he couldn't fight. (Covsrisht. 1026.) RICKARD FEARS NO HITCH IN PLANS FOR BIG FIGHT By the Associated Press. N EW YORK, July 29 come of his varied plans for the situation today. Jack Dempsey, the champion, and Gene Tunney, summoned to the scene, and already .—Tex Rickard’s confidence in the successful out- a heavyweight championship contest at the Yankee Stadium September 16, is the outstanding factor in challenger, have been requests for tickets are pouring into the Rickard offices to confront the promoter, who arrived only yesterday from Chicago. Rickard figures that he will ac commodate 0,000 persons in the stadium, with plenty of room be tween the ringside seats and the outer bleachers in order that those farthest away may see the actlon. The license jury is still out, and a verdict is expected in two weeks, when Col. John J. Phelan, the com’ mittee chairman. returns from Summer tour of duty at Peekskill, > with the old “Fighting #9th.” Rickard believes that Phelan will fol- low the dictates of the New York State Athletic Commission. which on Tuesday voted favorably on the test, with Chairman James opposing, Gene Tunney. it is reported, wi appear before Col. Petain, at Pee ville, to press his case, arzuing that a veteran of the marines should have his chance at the heavyweight title, while Dempsey, coming from the coast a week or so hence, undoubtediy will make application for a license as moon as he arrives. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., July 29 (P).—Eugene Normile, “personal representative” of Jack Dempsey. tel- egraphed the champion last night that he would arrive here from Chi- cago today and would have an an- nouncement to make. What the nature of the announce- ment might be Dempsey would not say. s He expressed surprise on learning that betting odds on V reported as 2 to | in his favo claring that it “early for betting to get started on the match.” Dempsey is rounding out his train Ing here preparatory to leav day for Sarat where he will start heu\\ workouts. GLOMMEN WINS CUP RACE. (pOOl)\\(K)D PARK, England, July ).—Sol Joel's Glommen, by Pommern out of Lady Gladys, won the Goodwood cup, run here today. Archery is part of the prescribed ex- ercises in all of the universities and | higher schools in Japan. Wallace Motor Co. NASH Sales and Service 1709 L Street N.W. Just East of Conn. Ave. Main 7612 his | all Street were | de- | |ROWING PAIR ENDS | TRIP OF 750 MILES | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK. July 2 K. Richards of Boston, he Harvard foot ball t ward A. Wachter of Tra | ket ball and rowing coach at who rowed from Norfolk New York. in a 27-foot wh bandoned their boat to their homes today by train. 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The sunior lightweight mantle has been torn from the shoulders of cham- plons four times since the class was established for Johnny Dundee less than four years ago, five light-heavy- weight kings have been crowned since the division was revived for the benefit of Battling Levinsky in 1920, two lightweight chieftains have come and gone since Benny Leonard relinquish- ed the scepter two years ago, seven changes have marked the struggle for bantamwelght honors in the last half dozen yeark. of the modern long-term FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Pres BINGHAMTON, N. Y.—Lou Scoz 7z, Buffalo, and Johnny Haystack, Binghamton, fought a draw (6). Bob- ble Moll, Allentown, Pa., and Dorey Shimer, Willlamsport, fought a draw ®). OAKLAND, Calif.—Benny Veirra, Oakland featherwelght, won a de cision over Stewart McLain of St. Paul, Minn., (6). BOOT TO BOOT IN FEONT CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 29 (#).— Bootto Boot, under a masterful ride by A. 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