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SPO RTS. THE EVE G_STAR, WASHINGTON, D. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1927. SPORTS. Dempsey a Vastly Improved Fighter Now : No Excuses If Beaten, Tunney Asserts COMPLETES FIVE MONTHS - TRAINING FOR BIG BATTLE Champion Displays Confidence in Every Move and Word=—Plans to Remain Secluded Somewhere in Chicago Until Time to Enter Ring. By the Associated Press. AKE VILLA, Iil, September 20. —The calmest heavyweight champion the ring has seen in many years, Gene Tunney,|It packed ~ aw his training | w gloves today and rested for his first | defense of his crown Thursday night against Jack Dempsey. | go Two more strolls on the road move brief periods with the punching bags and Tunney is ready to try to prove again his superiority over the former title holder with 6-ounce mitts in a 20-foot ring. He will have no excuses to offer if defeated, the; champion said to For more than five months he h e hi: he while he shot unter jabs and stepped back again. was Tunney's first seml-secret out, only a few newspapermen after blow, or! he might ¢ evening hotel until t time, but nderstood that ept an invitation to spend s last ht before the battle with me of his friends in Lake Forest, so would be sure of a complete rest. The champion » into Chi rem 'S.A.A,A.A.U.,NAMES worked to build up his condition for the battle, and confidence shows in his every move and word. Five rounds vesterday with two| sparring partners, who found it ex-| ceedingly difficult even to touch him | with the gloves, rang down the cur-| tain on Tunney's preparation. To Forget Cut Over Eye. | “That cut over my eyes was not a| menta¥ hazard as some believe,” Tun-| ney said. “I will forget all about it/ once the fight is under way. It will| take a solid punch to reopen the wound, and I hope T will be lucky enough to avoid any punches Demp- sey may aim at it. 1 am in as good condition as I can possibly be, and I will have no excuses to offer if I am defeated.” Tunney hopes to avoid the crowded loop until the time of the fight : proaches. Manager Gibson said to he wished it would not be necessary for the fighters to appear at the offices of the Illinois State Athletic commis- sion Thursday afternoon to be weighed in and given final examinations. Gibson came into the city toda: talk over rules with the commissi and Manager Leo P. Flynn of Dempsey camp. The referee question also figured largely in their conversa- tion. Benny Leonard, retired lightwelght champion, and Tom Sharkey, former heavyweight contender, watched the title holder go through his final work- out, Trainer Lou Fink held the heavy bag stationary for the champion’s flashing left hook and heavy right hand smashes. Makes His Sparmate Miss. Tunney worked for a long time on these one-two punches, devoting more time to socking the big bag than in any previous session since he came to the camp here three weeks ago. He was correspondingly easier on his sparring partners when the boxing Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.—Jack Britton, York, defeated Joey Knapp, York (10). BALTIMORE.—Joe Cyvder, Brook- lyn, defeated Nate Carp, Baltimore (10). Benny Schwartze, Baltimore, de- feated Frisco Grande, Philippines (10). DES MOINES.—Kenneth -Hunt, Des Moines, knocked out Jack Clif- ford, St. Paul (4). K Frankije Day, Canada, knocked out ‘Joe Risko, St. Paul (7). George Zigler, St. Paul, and Hal Mulenhoff, Fort Dodge, draw (6). CANTON.—Pete Latzo, Scranton, Pa.,, defeated Dick Evans, Youngs- town (10). DAYTON, Ohio.—Yale Okun, New York, and Joe Sekyra, Davton, draw (12). “Red” Holloway, Indianapolis, knocked out Heinie Powell, Middle- town, Ohio (2). New BALT , September 20.— e s from South Atlantic As- sociation of the Amateur Athletic Union were instructed at the annual meeting of the association here last night to seek the track and field try- outs for the Olympi the national marathon championship and the na- tional junior boxing championship at the national convention in Cincinnati. Joseph T. England was re-elected president of the South Atlantic Asso- tion, as were the other officers: rles L. Orenstein, secretary; George Miller, first vice president; A. Earl Weeks, Washington Canoe Club, see- ond vice president, and James G. Me- , treasurer. Hoffman was chosen to suc- 1f as handicapper and the old_registration committce, composed of Marvin H. Markle, A. Earl Weeks and Harold Parran, was renamed. Delegates to the Cincinnatl meeting chosen were: Col. Washington Bowie, Joseph T. England, Charles L. Or- stein, Marvin H. Markle, Dr. Wil- liam Burdick and George W. Miller. President England in his annual re- port pointed to the healthy state of the association. BUCS CAN CLINCH FLAG WITH NINE MORE WINS NEW YORK, September 20 (#).— Pi urgh’s leeway on first place in the National was whittled a full game vesterday as the Corsairs bowed be- fore the Robins, while the Giants trimmed the Reds and the Tardinals bowled over the Phil Nevertheless, the Buccaneers are in front by three and one-half games with a crucial Giants’ clash in the offing. To clinch the pennant, the Pirates require 9 of 13 remaining contests in the event the New Yorkers capture all of 10 games left and the cardinals all 11 yet to be played. SITTING PRETTY ANNEXES 200-MILE PIGEON.RACE Sitting Pretty, flown by Crown & Schmidt, won the 200-mile young bird race from Roanoke of the Washington Racing Pigeon Club. The victory gave the Crown-Schmidt loft the average speed diploma, it hav. ing been its third win of the series. Of the 103 birds liberated only 13 re- ported. Average speed in yards per minute st return to each loft follows: LOT OF DEMPSEY MONEY IN EVIDENCE IN CHICAGO By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, September 20.—Odds and ends of court preliminaries of the bat- tle of Soldier Field today occupied the legal staffs of, the leading charac- ters in_this forthéoming drama while thelr boxing impresarios discussed with the State Athletic Commission the vital questions of reféree, judges and rules of the ring. Shadows of injunction suits in both | State and Federal courts were not taken seriously. One of these—B. E. Clements’ action to hold Jack Demp- sey to the letter of an alleged contract to meet Harry Wills—already has been turned down once in one State court. The other—a Federal court injunction plea by Rev. Elmer L. Wil- lia ‘well known reformer—was even more lightly regarded by Tex Rickard and his associates. Manager Billy Gibson, piloting Cham- pion Gene Tunney, and Manager Leo P, Flynn, directing Jack Dempsey's comeback campaign, were to meet with the three members of the boxing commission in their regular weekly get-together today, with five names, possibly more, up for discussion as candidates for the third man in the ring. The names of the referee and the two judges will be kept secret until the moment when Chicago’s first heavyweight spectacle actually begins ‘Thursday night. Rickard Dodges Debate. Rickard said he would take no part I!\ the debate upon the referee, George Lytton, wealthy Chicago busi- ness man; Walter Eckersall, foot ball star of 20 years ago and now a sports writer, and three or four of the lead. | ing referees of Chicago houts in the | past 16 months of the sport in this State were the principal candidates mentioned. Tunney and Dempsey did no train. ing other than light bag punching and a bit of road work today, while their managers were in the city conferring with the boxing solons. Coincident with the arrival today the vanguard of the ringsiders an influx of “New York wise mo and other offers of not so wise but equally negotiable money from the South, West and North, which P the odds of the battle in favor of Dempsey The champion had been a 7405 favorite up to last night, when the supporters of the challenger began to unstrap their bank roll A record in gate receipts, even though the $3,000,000 goal is not achieved, was the solace today of the i i : Tires—Tubes SPECIAL stone cord, $6-95 gum dipped 3 Drive in tomorrow and Tet us do the work. Ve 12th and @ Sts. N.W, I ; i MODERN DOWNFOWR STATI ¥ %srAR SERYICE STATION Block bel A Bl "l of Demy Getz, his Chicago sponsor. They sent telegrams far and wide today to their friends with the admission that a pre- vious announcement of a sellout of ringside seats had been too optimistic. Large blocks of “ringside” seats, once ordered and then turned back by Gets, the railroads and the “Six Hundred Millionaires” of the Madison Square Garden Corporation were back in the box office racks toda; Getz turned back the railroads and others nearly as many more, so that the actual sale today was figured around $2,225.000, with a total of $2,250,000 as the ulti- amte of Rickard’s hopes. Promoter Blames Radio. The radio was blamed by Rickard for the decline in ticket sales. He said he would call in his lawyers after this fight and see if some way could not be devised to *make the fellows with the ear phones and the aker pay. “I never did have a sellout in any championship fight,” Rickard said, “and it will not break my heart if I don't have one this time. 000 tickets, and i he fact is that if all the seats were sold the receipts would be around $3,200,000.” “Getz had no way of telling that he had taken too many tickets to filll the orders of his friends. And the same way with the block reserved for the railroads.” The match was shorn of one of its new appellations today, for it was no longer the battle of the “open letters.” It was generally believed that Rick- ard sent word to the Dempsey camp that his published interrogation of Tunney, about the Philadephia fight situation a year ago, was distinctly inapropos. Dempsey’s broadside of Sunday night d Tunney’s brief, blunt reply wound up that episode, for the promised second installment lr;.n-a to 4 There were those who i that the letter was more the work of Manager Flynn than vy, but none at the Demp- sey camp would talk of the epistles Ny mor [RACING i —AT— Havre de Grace Sept. 21 to Oct. 1 (Inclusive) SEVEN RACES DAILY fray 30x3% regular Fire- i | Special B. & 0. train of leaves Union Station 11: and Dining Car attached. Special Penna. R. R. traln of ateel conches leaves Union Station 12 o’clock noon—direct to course. Parle ing ear attached. Eastern Standard ADMISSION—Grandstand dock, $1.65, including Gove BETTING ON FIGHT WAY SET RECORD $10,000,000 Is Likely to Be Wagered, Experts Believe. Tunney 7-5 Choice. NEW YORK, September 20.—That a record for betting will be set when Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey step into the ring Thursday night was the opinion of betting authorities in this city and in other parts of the country, following a avass. The record amount of money to be wagered on this flight is likely to surpass that made on any other sporting event in history, it is believed. With Tunney the favorite at odds of 7 to §, it was estimated that about $2,000,000 would be bet by persons in this city, and it was also figured that a grand total of $10,000,000 might change hands throughout the country, Betting Light in Chicago. A watchful-waiting attitude is re-| flected in Chicago, the scene of the battle, and_in other large centers where the betting market has been active enough to indicate further wagering and even plunging at the eleventh hour. Chicago sportsmen, though closer to the camps of the fighters, have been able to glean no more real inside information to guide them in their betting than have the followers of boxing in other parts of the country, and betting in that city has been light, Fluctuations in the odds seemed likely in the belief of such betting au- thorities in this city as Jack Doyle. Doyle, acting as commissioner for many of the bettors along Broadway and its environs, and whose odds are considered an accurate reflection of the betting market, declared that much Dempsey money was being held back for last-minute betting. So far, according to Doyle, the Dempsey money has seemed to be most freely offered, but on the whole both camps seemed to be well supplied with money and were merely awaiting the most favorable market. 0dds Shorter Than Ever. The odds of 7 o 5 now offered are, according to Doyle and others here, shorter than in any previous heavy- weight title flght in recent years. This has accounted to some extent for an increase in the size of bets from persons who usually place much smaller wagers, The odds against each fighter as quoted by Doyle follow: Dempsey. 15 to 1 he does not win in 1 round. 12 to 1 he does not win in 2 rounds, 10 to 1 he does not win in 3 rounds. 8 to 1 he does not win in 4 rounds. 6 to 1 he does not win in 5 rounds. 5 to 1 he does not win in 6 rounds. 4 to 1 he does not win in 7 rounds. 1 3 3 to 1 he does not win in 8 rounds. 2 to 1 he does not win in 9 rounds. 7 to § he does not win in 10 rounds. Tunney. he does not win in 1 round. he does not win in 2 rounds. he does not win in 3 rounds. he does not win in 4 rounds. he does not win in 5 rounds. he does not win in 6 rounds. he does not win in 7 rounds. he does not win in 8 rounds. he does not win in 9 rounds. he does not win in 10 rounds, Sa3 85835 ST 0980 o N 00 pu 1t 13 ALBANY BEATS BUFFALO. ALBANY, N. Y., September 20 (#), —Albany, Eastern’ League champion, }g defeated Buffalo, International League pennant winner, 5 to 3 yesterday in ten innings. This was the first game of a series of three. WITH THE ISTRICT Government Bowling League will open its season Friday night at 8 o’clock on Arcadia drives, with Maj. Layson E. Atkins, assistant to the Engineer Commissioner, roll- ing the first ball. Departments represented are: Sewer, Highways, Health, Water Pumping Station, Water Registrar, Repair Di- vision, Chief Clerks, Traffic, Building and Purchasing. Officers are: Roland W. Brennan, president; John W. Oehmann, vice- president, and William E. Swaggart, secretary-treasurer and scorer. 0dd Fellows opened their fourteenth annual duckpin season last night on King Pin No. 2 alleys. Wilfred E. Lawson, president of the loop since its organization, was presented with an Odd Fellows insignia ring. Grand Master Lemuel H. Windsor made the presentation. Eighteen teams compose the circuit this year, two more than last season. Only four teams started last night. Golden Rule took three games from Mt. Nebo and Harmy took two of three from Eastern. General Accounting Office Bowling League opened its fourth season on Convention Hall drives with 10 teams in action. Indian No. 2 team was the only aggregation successful in taking all three matches. Post Office, last year's champs, dropped two out of three to Indian No. 1, runner-up last season. Hilderbrand, Veterans Bureau, fin- ished with a triple-header strike, get. TROUSERS To Match Your Odd Coats EISEMAN'S, 7th & F Tor the big A Ringside Seat via Radio Radio owners will loll back in their easy chairs next Thursday evening and listen to the blow- by-blow broadcast of the Dempsey-Tunney bout. Crosley Radias. ...$55 up Atwater Kent......565 up R.C. A. Sets....$569.50 up Bold on the Budget Plan THE HECHT CO. Music Store 618 F St. N.W. INVADING WOMAN GOLFER MEDALIST IN U. S. EVENTI By the Associated Press. GARDEN CITY,"N. Y., September 20.—Another foreign drive for an American sporting title was on in earnest today. Four ranking com- petitors from outside the United States were among the 32 who quali- fled for the first round of match play in the national women's golf cham- pionship. Five strokes under woman's par and four over men's par for the Cherry Valley course, Ada MacKen- zie of Toronto, Canadian champion, won the qualifying medal with 177, leading a field of 140-0dd competitors, many of whom withdrew because of poor’ performances in a drizzling rain. Miss MacKenzie tied the record made by Mrs. Ale: irling Fraser at St Louis two y S Aago. In a tie for sccond Maureen Orcutt, the champion, and Mrs. Horn of Kansas Ci ing 78. place were Metropolitan Miriam Burns ¥, Mo.. each hav- Mrs. Alexa Stirling Fraser of Ottawa was next with 82. Mvs. Henry Pressler of Los Angeles and Virginia Van Wie of Chlcago had $3s. Mlle. Simone Thion de la Chaume, French and British champion, had 87, and Miss Eileen Pattison, champion of Bermuda, took 86. Considered one of the favorites to tafle off the title, Mlle. de la Chaume finds herself in the second quarter of the lower half of the draw, and her progress toward the final is blocked by such stars as Glenna Collett, three times champion, who qualified with 85; Mrs. Fraser and Mrs. Pressler. Miss Mackenzie is in the upper bracket. with Miss Van Wie, Miss Or cutt and Miss Pattison. Today's feature match brought to gether Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd of Philadelphia, who qualified with 89, and Mrs, Pressler. A new champion will be crowned on v, for Mrs. G. Henry Stetson who won the title last year, {ll, was off her game, She required 96 and did not quali Mile, De la Chaume does not look like a golt champlon. Bhe acts lik: one. Dressed in a mannish blouss of white with a blue tie, a_brown slouch hat, brown pleated skirt and beiz stockings, she seemed, as she w hout the course in the qualifyi round, to be all ready to stop minute and have a_cup of tea. That was going out. Coming home, she was too busy reeling off pars fo at- tend to any other busin She we taking no chances on slipping on the second nine as she did on the first and placing her qualifying status in jeop- ardy, She s known as a good iron player, but these trusted clubs failed her on the first nine holes when she needed 46 strokes. She was in six traps and found trouble here and there out of the traps. She was on the line later, getting close enough with her third to run a_putt down on the 523-yard tenth hole for a 4, where woman’s par is 6. She chipped close on the eleventh for a birdie 4 and then took pars except for one 6. STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE ORE than a score of officers of the Army stationed in the Washington district played the final 18 holes of a 36-hole qualifying round today at the Congressional Country Club to de- termine which two of their number shall represent this district in the Army championship to be played at Rock Island, IIl., early in October. Scores made in the first round yes- terday were high and fairly well bunched, with no one of the entrants outstripping the fleld decisively. Maj. R. Glass led with a card of 85, with Capt. W. J. Reed second at 87. Three other entrants, Col. T. W. Weed, Col. Sleet and Lieut. E. E. Harmon, were tied for third at 88, and Lieut. F. E. Crawford was next with 89. Maj. Earl Naiden, the Army cham- pion, is now in France and will be un- able to defend his champlonship, A woman professional aggregate score tourney acheduled yesterday for the Town and Country Club was post- poned because of rain. The next open tournament for men, and the only one remaining on the pionship, to be played at Indian Spring, and 30. George J. Voigt of Bannockburn will defend title, The event is a 72-hole medal play tourney, open only to amateurs who are members of clubs in the Dis- trict Golf Association, and who have club handicaps of 12 or less. The four men on the District municip: ! links team also have been invited .o com- pete. The first annual Fall tournament of the Shenvalee Golf Club at New Mar. ket, Va., starts tomorrow with an 18- hole qualifying round for man and woman entrants. The women will qualify in flights of eight, and the men will qualify sixteens. The men's final round will be played Friday, with the women'’s final Saturday morning. SALIENT FACTS RELATING TO BIG BATTLE THURSDAY Principals—Gene Tunney, heavy- weight champion; Jack Dempsey, former champion, now challenger. Stake—Heavyweight title of the world. ml’llto—Soldkr Field, Chicago, "!?,l(o—'l'hnmdar. September 22, fimo—s:ls to 10 p.m., Chicago daylight saving time, or same tln‘m In Washington, Eastern standard. Number of rounds—Ten, Attendance—160,000 (estimated). Receipts—$3,000,000 (estimated). Tunney’s share—$1,000,000 (esti- mated). Dempsey’s share—$425,000 (esti- mated). Promoter — George L. (Tex) ney. ‘l:lt‘t.'rlsf—7 to 3 In favor of Tun- BOWLERS ting a 138 game and a 340 set. Officers of the league are: Harry H. Seyfarth, Post Office, president; Don- ald G. Spencer, Audit, vice president; Edward A. Berger, Indian, secretary, and Addison W. Grant, Bookkeeping, treasurer and scorer. Team Standing. Won. Lost ¥ ¢ P i Check Acct: Investigators Bookkeeping Postoffica . Veterans' _Bureau. Pay and Travel Claima ... Comptrolier DeMolay howlers want games with independent teams for Thurs- day nights or a berth in some church or fraternal league. Junior O. U. A. M. and North Washington Church League berths are especially desired. Call Richard Mathews, Main 762, or write him at 522 Eighth street northeast. ARMY TEAM GUNNING FOR MARINE ELEVEN By the Associated Press, SAVANNAH, Ga., September 20.— Determined to wrest the President's Cup from the All-Marine eleven, which has won the honor for two successive years, 60 men, drawn from all branch- es of the United States Army, have been in training at Fort Scriven here since August 24, The torrid sun prohibited workouts in regular gridiron togs, and the soldiers have been practicing in bath- ing suits on the ocean beach. Maj. James A. Van Fleet, army coach, has charge of the operations and believes he will offer the Marines the toughest opposition ever, when the two elevens clash at Washington on November 19. ‘While there are now three games on the Army schedule, victory over the Leathernecks in the annual all-serv- ice classic constitutes the sole am- bition of the soldiers. To point for that contest they are undergoing the strictest kind of train- ing. An inkling of what the Marines will go up against is given in the i formation that the candidates average about 190 pounds. Ten of them nlay- ed on last year's all-Army squad and others have had service on touted Army_elevens, To fill in the gaps and provide more reserve material calls were sent to all sections of the country for likely candidates and the men in training came from Colorado, Nebraska, Min- nesota, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and many other States. Although no warm-up games have been scheduled, the coaches think they may meet two or three opponents before the first contest of tha season when the soldiers meet Western Re- serve on November 1 Speedometer Trouble? We Repair All Makes CREEL BROS. 1811-17 14th St. N.W. Pot. 473 Representing_48 Leading Manufacturers of Auto Electric Equipment and Motor Parts. Gentlemen. Study ¢he Bumps’ local calendar, is the District cham-| UMPS—lumps—looseness! All tell a story of faulty cigar- making. 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September 20 (). —The third preliminary game in the American open polo champlonship, scheduled on Tochran Field vester. day, was postponed because of wet grounds. Drawbridge's Ramblers were to have opposed a United States Army entry. Mac Smith Master of Oakmont Sands| BY SOL METZER. Ungquestionably the sand traps at Oakmont, filled with sand made from ecrushed rock and so furrowed that all lies near a green were in furrows at right angles to the cup, were the big problem of the recent Open. Jones found that out on several oceasions, as did Hagen, Cooper and the field. Mac Smith had good results from them. On SIDE VIEW SMITHS SAND CLUB FACE OPEN the final day he was trapped to the left of the fourteenth green, some 15 feet from the pin, his ball deep in the sand. Four was par for the hole and Mac Smith got it. Instead of closing the blade of his niblick, Smith opened it, He dug his feet deeply into the sand to give him a firm footing and drove the flat blade of this club with tre- mendous force so that it cut through the sand dircetly under the ball. The ball, forced by the rising sand (exploded), rose into the air, fell some 10 feet short of the pin and rolled to within about 4 feet of it. Smith promptly sank his putt and was warmly cheered. Just before he had played this hole the gallery had watched a youthful local pro play three shots from these various traps before landing on the green. BETTER THAN A YEAR AGO BOTH IN MIND AND BODY Knockout of Sharkey Restored Old Con® 'snce, Gleam Has Returned to Eye and Former Play.- fulness Again Is in Evidence. By the Associated Press. INCOLN FIELDS, CRETE. 1., | September To appearances, peace Prevailed in! Jack Dempsey's training camp | today—peace for every one with the exception of the former world heavyweight champion himself, who was bubbling over with mnervous energy in striking contrast to his harried mental upset of a year nge just before fighting his losing batt vith Gene Tunney in Philadelphia The Jack Dempsey of today a changed indlvidual. Not only is the old gleam back in Jack's ey but much of his playfulness has returned, reminding his admirers, and even neu- tral observers, that there is as much difference between the Dempsey of to- day and the Dempsey of 12 months ago as there is between day and night. The present day Dempsey. no longer worried with law suits and the menac: ing threats of his former manage: Jack Kearns, is more like the Demp- sey of the Firpo days four years ago. The critics say he has improved per cent over his mental and physical condition when he fought Tunney in the rain at Philadelphia, and that he is 25 per cent a better fighter than when he knocked out Jack Sharkey two months ago. 0ld Confidence Restored. Since knocking out Sharkey Demp- sey's old confidence has returned, dis- pelling all doubt in his own mind whether or not he could really come back, whether he could all but para lyze a foe with his gloved fists, and whether he could take a punching and still remain on his feet. Dempsey Is satisfled in his own mind that he will upset all prognosti- cations and regain his prized world heavyweight title when he meets Tunney in their battle at Soldier Field Thursday night. He feels that if there were anything wrong with him the critics would have been able to detect it. His body is lean, his eyes are bright and clear; there does not seem to be an ounce of superfluous flesh on his frame; even the slight rolls of fat that were so noticeable during his training for Sharkey at Saratoga have disap- peared under his long siege of training at this racing plant. Dempsey has been working grimly to convince the world that he can come back. He worked for 11 weeks in his mountain camp at Ojai, Calif., before going KEast to fight Sharkey. Then he went through a siege of hox- ing at Saratoga. After whipping Sharkey he took a brief rest on the Coast before plunging into the grind of training again, this time for Tunney. To Fight in Top Shape. Dempsey has been in training here | under the watchful eye of the old fox of fistiana, Leo P. Flynn, who has brought him right up to the edge for fighting, so that Dempsey will enter the ring Thursday in top condition. His weight today was within a few ounces of the 197-pound mark, indi-| cating that he possibly would weigh around 195 pounds at weighing-in time Thursday afternoon. Dempsey, in his training, parti ularly in the last few days, gave dence that he is so close to being the Manassa mauler of old that his friends can hardly distinguish the dif- ference. His legs looked good, he moved around the ring speedily, with the same old weaving crouch, and inside the ropes he was the old glow- ering, charging, vicious Dempsey of the primitive fighting instinct. His 1l outward | m | his wife, left , often called the greates in weight history, found their accurately ever, The talked-about efforts te trans- form Dempsey's ring style—if thers were any such efforts—have gone for naught. The Dempsey who fizhts Tunned this weels will bo the same tearing er that nailed Willard at Teledo, Benton Harbor, and 1n st timing has been accurate. He still is using with a devastation ch his sparmates attest that short right, which travels a few inches, 2 with crushing force to the Wife Is Close at Hand. In contrast to a year ago, Dempsey had the almost daily companionship of Estelle Taylor, although she lives in a northside Chicago hotel 50 miles from the training camp. She never had seen him in the ring be- fore, until she came to the track here, soon after his training began, and she came often to lunch with him and cheer him on. ast year she was speeding West, away f ht, and in the light of what happened in the Sesqui circle, there was an outward lack of con- fidence and enthusiasm which has ed her actions here. former world heavywsight | champion, in his_training campaizn, furnished one of the greatest surprises ever turned on the boxing world when he decided that secret workouts at night under the glare of flood lights was his best plan. He thought of the idea of boxing at night when the heat wave first struck Chicago a fortnight ago. le wanted to produce as nearly as pos- sible the same situation that would confront him when he crawls into the ring to face Tunney. He wanted his eves to become accustomed to the glare of lights, and, moreover, wanted the strict privacy so he could practice blows without any comments from spectators, either uttered or printed. Demps ucceeded because he boxed for a week at a time with the public excluded and the gates even elosed to newspaper correspondents. His rea- son for excluding the public, and later the correspondents, was because he objected to whispered comment about him unnecessarily punishing sparring partners, and when he permitted his sparmates to whale away at him with- out a return bscause he was practic- ing defense. Crowds Continue to End. When the gates were closed to the public and open only to the corre. spondants, Dempsey discovered that the crowds were almost as large as when he was getting §1.10 from each spectator. He found that the news- paper correspondents were bringing not only their friends, but thelr ward committeemen, uncles and aunts and neighbors across the hall. He de cided then and there to close the camp even to the newspaper_writers, After all these surprises, Dempsey launched ome even more startling when he wrote his “open letter” to Tunney, asking the champion to ex- plain the contract signed with Max (Boo Boo) Hoff of Philadelphia and other things which he regarded as peculiar just before that battle in the Sesquicentennial Stadium. When Tun- ne; had Jeplied to this “evident trash,” Promoter Tex Rickard is re- ported to have stepped in and choked off the battle of the fountain pens. Will your Radio eye see T hursday’s bou HRILLING NEWS will be on the air| Re- ports right from the ring- side. 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