Evening Star Newspaper, August 20, 1926, Page 17

SPORTS. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY., AUGUST 20. 1926. SPORTS. T 17 Long Lay-off Will Be Fatal to Dempsey in Coming Title Fight, Asserts Tunney GENE FIRMLY CONVINCED | KENILWORTH FIGHTS JACK CANNOT COME BACK G0OVERTOTUESDAY Points to Failure of Sullivan, Corbett, Jeffries and Willard to Turn Trick and Is Certain Champion Will Be No Exception. BY GENE TUNNEY. (Copyright, 1926, by King Features Syndicate, Inc.) o b today's skles was enough to convince Matchmaker Heinfe Miller that any further at- |tempts to stage boxing matches at {Kenflworth arena this week would be useless. | _Consequently he has announced | that the entire card postponed’ from \| Tuesday will be presented on Tuesday | night of next week. Frankie Fink of Texas and Babe {Ruth of Philadelphia, rival feather- weights, are down for the main event lof 12 rounds. Others on the program are Jack O clhampion ever was away from the ring for three full years and|,_ O on i then made a successinl comeback. Sullivan couldn’t do it iamne e g o bett couldn’t. Fitz couldn’t make the grade after less than two |yiealy ana Fred Bl o A vears of loafing. Jefirics, Johnson and Willard Dempsey isn't going to be any exception T'll prove it to him on September 2 A man who has not fought for a long. long time loses much that is vital for athletic greatness and retention of his crown. S imerely muscular power; others lose speed failed. Some men lose Some are robbed of co- And Jack FIGHTS LAST NIGHT. By the Associated Prese. NEW YORK.—Tiger Flowers, Geor- i it Yol ! e ‘< |gla negro, world's middleweight rdination of cye, mind and muscle during ycars of idleness—and that kills | Siampion, retained. his” titie, bein off their marksmanship, ) 3 awarded the judges’ decision over Dempsey claims he has t none of these. He may be right—he may | Harry Greb, Pittsburgh, former title- he wrong. But granted that he's the same speedy performer of 1923; that | holder (15). K. O. Phil Kaplan, New he can drive home his blows with the same power and that he's as rugged He's still minus something. as he was in his fighting days. And that is York middlewelght, knocked out Dick Evans, Philadelphia (2). Maxie the enti ecess that is self-confide: Rosenbloom, New York middleweight, ntirely nece that is sclf-c n.m]tncr.. 1“'”‘1 L Cha: e e empion o sh othersjcomes a grim reality_well thats|Anionio (10). Tommy Simms, negro into believing that he thinks that he's | when Til begin to chop down what- | oy C8 4o "s) ramento, Calif., gatned as great as he ever ] ever resistance he has left and, in|gecision over Joe Lockhard, Iivans- vt kid himself about i he end, hang an “ex” hefore his | Gie™Ta V(e . A bl T CHICAGO—Midget Smith, New a8 good as ev ut he doesn't s that to hin 3 £ Vit s VILLE, France, August 20| Ever Hammer, Chicago lightweight, fearful, wonc T L e m(_,:'!onP:"J(ler((zo;n)dcclsmn over Ted Blatt, b el Summer meeting and the annual | St & ol that "Sisopens o Vearling sales today were disct ing| CLEVELAND, — Johnny Dato, a champlon it's a the recc i paid for s in | Cleveland featherwelght, won news- tipoff that his Frante, 600,000 francs, paid by Count | paper decision over Willle Ames, Ak- R de Rivaud for Balmoral by Roths- rce (10). Floyd Hybert, Cleveland| bling. child's celebrated stallion Sardana- | welterweight, knocked out Johnny Dempsey canc pale out of La Bahia. Mendlesohn, Milwaukee (8). not f ot what RACER BRINGS BIG SUM. mweight, and Archie Bell, York ban york, boxed a draw (10). also of New ame TUNNEY, Sullivan wa primed for a battle with Cor- ide. | he suldn’t make the g in his prime when fought ¥itz, yet Jim had been aw from the game for three years, A | this perfect athlete, who had the most amazing defense of any fighter in the , failed to duck just once—and Fitz nailed him Others Have Failed. Tt's the same story with the others. | The vtried to com " couldn’t. The —but he bett By the DELPE S rsatcna thie jexy 4 | test, plans to establish headquar- sisted that they v good as|ters in Philadelphta Monday and ever,” but when it cume to the test| faels sure that there will be no oppo- they failed: they went to pieces Just | gjtion to the bout. In fact, Rickard hecause the layoff had rusted them | miles oftener than he has for sev- and ruined them as kings of their | opal aweeks. xealms. | “Philadelphia will see the greatest W tues: otk & ot heavyweight battle the world ever that. He shows up woll VR Aleard o Sias b St el for New York after viewing the fettle right now stadium, conferring with Mayor that Dex Ker of the Pennsyl- those line: fon and various He's alw that, it seems to me, i tle boy who is afraid in the lering to scare he fears but does n nosed fight was ¢ Is Not the N The champion in his claimed credit for being being— not heing patient T and tear, throwing hims the TOGA SPT fight in the istion if he fails to t used to happen whe sylvania Boxing Commis: or Gene Tunney train in the ! heavyweight championship bout there September 23. Dempsey has received several offers of | near Philadelphia and from Atlantic Cit; r i Springs until Monday or Tuesday while his new camp is being selected. Tex Rickard, promoter of the con- e st by Charles F. ONE OF MEN MAY TRAIN AT SCENE OF BIG FIGHT Associated Press. 1IA, August would be tory of boxing, position. ted that the attend- the, Commission, by I, approved the pro- The one dissenting vote ‘White, negro ssion, who as- ‘rank Weiner, chairman of the Penn- sion, plans to have either Jack Dempsey Sesquicentennial Stadium for the a camp from country clubs He will remain at Saratoga pointed out that the automobile is the property of the fighter's wife, Estelle Taylor Dempsey. Preparations for a change of train- ing camps to conform with the trans- fer of the title match went steadily forward at the White Sulphur Springs quarters today. Sparring partners, trainers and other members of the small army attending the heavyweight | all gathered up free ends of affairs and awaited word of departure. SPECULATOR, N. Y., August 20 (). —(Gene Tunney reads in the woods as he prepares for his champlonship match with Jack Dempsey. Neither the possibility of court action nor the ~fswitch to Philadelphia interfered with the challenger’s course of reading. Tunney reads better class fiction. When he has done his regular daily roadwork he takes his book to the shores of Lake Pleasant and fre- ! quently does not emerge from his re- ought first t0) % o2t until time to go into the ring for the afternoon workout. A series UNGS, N. Y., Au- | Of encounters with the two bags, one r belonging to |big and slow,, the other light and rope ‘skipping, shadow boxing six rounds of boxing makes it a | day. the peak, when ever The boxing program has suffered for working ‘With machin ) s on its way iy bnitcount ofia idearthiot What's past has nothi it This report ng partners, but this situation the present Demps I St e been remedied. Billy Vedabeck, great; he may look like old t Jack Kearns, | ey City light-heavyweight, boxed Dempsey. of the champion, | with Tunney for the first time today. But when he climbs into the rin; ich procedure as a pre- | Johnny Grosso will come from New watch him tight himself out Lefore 1 v step in his $333,333.33 sult | York to take his turn next week. Only really begin to operate on him. And inst” the heavyweisht champlon. | Lou Fink, his trainer, knows Tunney's when he's shot his bolt and when he report was not looked upon |exact weight, but it is not far from the inner fear that he now has that [ with any perturbation by Dempsey, |the 190 pounds he expects to weigh - | those close to ¢ not be able to come b he n TUBES 30x3'3 Guaranteed Inner 31.39 Tube. . 7 % $1.00 Can Dupent's Duco Polish. Our 59(.' & Low Prici GUARANTEED CORD Wrapped has serfal num- ber. Limited 2 to customer. 72 30x3%2 TIRE 6% Mobiloil Water Pumps lee on any Iy sold st $1.29 Cup Grease 1 Pound Can 9c e _reserve the right to Himit quanti- thes. our spectal one of We reserve right to quantities. Feeler Gauges AL OO t, ! 1 e et Container 59e 7% regular with A. C. 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THE FIGHT GAME FROM THE INSIDE CHAPTER XXXIL BY JACK KEARNS. HINGS had come along so swiftly in that first round at Toledo that T'm not quarreling with anybody who happened to get rattled. Now that it is all over and is history, I want to say that Warren Bar- bour was a man in a tough place. There could have been worse than Pecord, and as for Joe Bannon and Jack O'Brien, well, they did their stuff. I didn't steal the fight in that first round, but it wasn't their fault. Barbour couldn’t be kiddied out of it, that’s all. Finally the bell rang for the second round. You'll remember that I sent Dempsey out to take his time. His instructions were to move about and make Jess miss. Missing would kill him off just as surely as blows would and my man wouldn’t be wearing and tearing himself to shreds after that terrific first round. J Dcmpsey had fought the equal of 20 rounds in that first period, and it was playing safe to let him rest up. Besides there was the third to come, if Willard didn’t fall down in !fic second by himself. I wasn't so sure that he wouldn't. But he fooled us. And let me put in a plug right here for big Jess—he was game. He landed one good blow in that second round that almost went through Dempsey's body. I don't suppose, out- side of a few that Firpo landed on him in' the first round of their bout, that Dempsey has cver been hit as hard as he was in that second round at Toledo. i He was going along nice, felnting Jess out and making him miss, but Jess nailed him with a right-hand uppercut to the body that lifted Dempsey two feet Jess was taking things. T saw his sec- onds struggling with m as if trying to keep Jess in his seat. They were. He wanted to get up to go over and speak to Pecord. Finally he waved off the floor. He |[Tke O’Neill and Walter Monahan aside fell right in and |and, beckoning to Pecord, called the clinched until he |referee over to his corner. got his bearings. "The hell rang end- ing the round be- fore Jess could do another thing. Dempsey was all right when he came to his cor- ner. If T had sent him out in that second round he might have won there. It wag best to play it safe. e Barber got him- self & hammer and B it was with this that he rang the bell for the third. Jack gave Jess one of the worst lacings in this round that a champion ever got in this world at any weight. Willard took it gamely. He was on his feet at the end of the third round, but had to walk clear across the ring from the same spot on which he had taken the seventh knockdown and count in the first. He was able to make it, unassisted. I knew he was done for, but after seelng him walk to his corner at the end of the third 1 thought he'd at least get up and take a few in the fourth. I worked fast on Dempsey. “Make it short and sweet, boy. You're the champion in this “I can’t go on,” he told Pecord, and without another word, Pecord turned and, crossing the ring, lifted Demp- ’s right arm hizh into the air. It was the end. Dempsey was the cham- pion of the world! Jess had been in his corner half a minute when he chucked {t. He didn't leave his chair and they dldn't ring the bell for the fourth round. The record books made Dempsey win in the thirl round, though in truth that round had been completed. That is the rule. If 2 man surrenders in between rounds, the knockout is scored in the round just finished. Now I come to a part of this story of Toledo that must be told. Ever since that fight you've heard of horse- shoes and bolts and railroad spikes in Dempsey’s gloves. Regardless of my present embarrassment with Dempsey I want to spike that libel for all time next round. Lay it on. 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I'll tell right here, plece for piece, just what went onto Dempsey’s fists that day. How He Wrapped Hands. I used %-nch white surgical ad- hesive tape. I cut a dozen strips aboyt 40 inches long for each hand. Thes overlapped, beginning by laying the first strip across the hand just in front of the knuckles. Then in turn I overlapped each succeeding strip until the whole, made a compact little pad that reached to the middle of the hand. It made a perfect pad for the knuckles. With this in place, I took three strips for each hand and fas- tened each between the fingers and drew it tightly across on the back of the hand, so that the entire pad was held firmiy in place. When Dempsey’s hand was gripped, this pad formed a perfect cast for his knuckles. You could hit a brick wall with it. I used no gauze at all on top of this. The Britt system is a perfectly legitimate covering for the knuckles and the safest protection I know of against breaking them. That is what Dempsey had in his gloves at Toledo. Nothing more, nothing I 1 went into Willard's dressing room to see how he was getting on with his band ages. | figure even then. Jess, a cranky big |cuss, had apparently chased all his handlers out of the room. I stood quietly watching him trying to wrap his big paws. He fumbled and fussed {terribly. He was trembling as if he had the ague. I felt then he was licked before he went into the ring. The fellow didn't have any winning convictions, even though he had al ready planned a word tour with Tex Rickard. I saw my chance to ride the old boy so T began. First, 1 grabbed the gauze out of his hand: “Don’t ry to wrap your hands like that, Jess. What in hell are you try- ing to do anyway? Youwll never get anywhere with that kind of wrappins. You've got to go in there with your hands all O.K. Jess. You're meeting a tough young kid. You can't afford to have your hands all dutched up like this. You'll need them. This fellow of mine has been going around He was all alone, a pathetic | FLOWERS RETAINS TITLE . BY DECISION OVER GREB was on the night he lost the cham Greb was credited by newspapes . while 8 went to Flowers and 1 to the floor during ‘wrestling about Cuts were opened over Greg's eves His body was a target for the cham plon’s straight shots. The challenger's last-minute rush was the old “windmill” attack with- out the cutting drive it was wont to carry. By the Assoclaied Press | W YORK, August 20—Tiger Flowers, Atlanta negro, remains middleweight boxing champion of the world after a sensational 15-round struggle with the man from whom he took the crown Harry Greb of Pittshurgh Flowers made good Iis defense in Madison Square Garden last nigin before 15.000 persons, but did not reccive the unanimous vote of the officials Referee Jimmy Crowley favored Gr In far better condition than he pionship last February in the same r men with capturing 6 of the 15 roun was even. A smashing offensive, which had the fight after the negro in trouble in the last two rounds, probably drew the vote of the referee. | Flowers carried the attack to his opponent from the start, but Greg countered with stiff blows to the head, and several times rushed the champion to the ropes. Both went wers weighed 159%, and Greg 159, | you turned those hands over to some body that knows. I'm only tryving to do vou favor. Anyway, you'll not have any need for bandages an hour {from now. Wae're ringing up a new champion, Jess: ringing up Jack breaking fellows legs off at the ankles and you've got to be taped right or vou'll find vourself on the floor. Let | me tape those hands for you.” | Willard Ts Nervous. | Jess had been wrapping and un-| Dempsey’s name: ringing up the kind wrapping his hands and was in an| who breaks their legs off at the awful fluster. He had most of the | aniles when he belts them." stuff around his wrists. “Let me| T gave old Jess this parting shot get your knuckles wrapped.” He held out his big paw like a Newfoundland dog and I started to work on the taping. 1 fussed and muttered and stalled around to get his goat. I had him on the hot seat and he just sat there. All of a sudden he realized 1 was Dempsey’s handler and might be | kidding him. Suddenly he jerke¢ his | hand aw | RUNS A FAST MILE. “Aw, go on, I'll tape my own hands. CHICAGO, August 20 (#)—The !'T guess T know how to do it.” best thoroughbred mile of the year, | “A nickel will get you rich if you within a second's fraction of the best want to bet that vou know how to tape them, Jess. I'm telling you that > B mark ever made, is a filly's time. Mary O. covered the route in 1:36 at this is a rough, tough boy you're meet- Lincoln Field yesterday, under the ing out there in the sun. You'd hetter have those hands fixed right or you'll colors of 1. B. Elkin of Lexington, She was an outsider in the bet- |and stood in the doorway to see how | he was taking it. Not at all. No good. He sat there actually shivering with nervousness. He was licked then and there. T rushed back to Dempsey and teld him of my visit to Jess 1926.) (Copvright. wind up in the cellar. When you're meeting @ guy that knocks their jaws loose from the hinges and snaps their legs off at the ankles it's about time Now More for Your Money- HANCELLOR PANETELA PANETELAS 3,2 Welcome news, men. The most a quarter can buy in three cigars. Made of the same Chancellor quality that distinguishes its higher priced sizes. Whatever you’re pay- ing, whatever your favorite today, learn how these Panetelas give super-quality. NEW DAY PACKAGE As 3 for a quarter §s a popular selling unit, we present a new idea in packing whichappealstomen because it is very sensible. 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