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Yn BAER SURE HE'LL BEAT DEMPSEY “AND TELLS INSIDE STORIES ~ ,,. Big Champion Is Combining Training With Moving Picture Work ge. at Los Angeles—Explains How Stories of His War Activi- et» ties Were Distorted and Says He Has Bought $40,000 em Worth of Liberty Bonds, More Than Are Owned by Any Other Fighter. with Jack Dempsey. Walking down the street from his hotel, the PAE RES ” x pi aa he vehi champion came to an open air Liberty Loan meeting. Immediately Jess was asked to go on the platform and say « fow words, He did. This Clinching this shortest argument of tte campaign, Jess wrote his check for the $6,000 and dropped it ‘What do Bonds now, Jess?” I asked him. “SC “More than any other fighter,” eald Jess, “but I'm not looking for a4 -rwortising along that line.” Pressed, he admitted that he has invested to Ge the extent of $40,000. beh cal Willard will stay tn Los Angeles until a month before the fight, and ‘WF then will go straight to the dattleground to put the final touches on his SE condition. Through the month of May he will be posing daily in a seven- no boxing | Hae rea moving picture—a Western picture, with | {FP becins at 8 in the morning. rides igh, Watll about 3 in the afternoon, when he breaks away from his director and begins tratning. . ee ete ee he isn't in the full swing of his train- ing yet. But he didn’t fall over his own feet, by a long shot, and there was an apparent reserve of strength and speed to draw on at any time. Dempsey Doesn’t Worry Him. Rie J the minute's rest Willard should be: blamed for noe ating hi seotallowy color, But tt wag onl; rn 0° movie actor's grease dilaat claes oe I don't care whether corpse like in his six feet seven panes be came out briskly and extended | (4) the big paw that laid Jack Johnson | 0 ** nat on sooner, jong i Re 6 didn't impress me as @ nw, clothes covered no rounded paunch, Serand his belt was drawn to the normol "notch without cutting into him. Ho sick, They sent word that y was awful sick, in his hotel. That's the way. Those fellows talk about what they’ze going to do to the cham- pion it they can only get a chance— and then if they get it they're sick. I,wasn't worried over fighting Demp- hy for nothing, and I'm surely not over fighting him for Here time was called. Willar’ stepped through the ropes, and Her. ple was ready with a rush anda mix- up. From the bruises Jack showed I Suspected that the dally session was LJ six feet tall, He js in fine fresh from a year in the me But when he stood up with | _© big Jess he looked like a smail boy. Stl There's no getting around tne fact a bit rough. It was. Willard slam- ‘bm that Willard is a giant among men,|™med Jack around, and Jack swung ) -S'f’and that he ts going to toom up over | willingly and found Jess hard to hit. “BE Dempeey ‘on the Fourth of Jujy like|Now @nd then a punch found Wil- © *©* the Woolworth Building over & sub-|lard’s chin, but nearly all of them BEE way kiosk. were neatly evaded. Willard either - leaned back out of range, or ducked =, Willard Is Not Fat. pad ee: J le pene rice ‘) ew to real 19 force of it. showed ai ets ental Muay of Willard) more shiftiness than’ he had ut Sees aay Tat to-day ‘he is in ‘almost exe Havana—a heritage, no doubt, from ; the same condition he showed @\ the night he boxed Frank Moran in long season of circus boxing he it through. |.” Madison Square Garden three years Qf emo. That night he weighed 259% 3 "Yos," he sail to me after the weight. le claims round, “I learned a lot of boxing in pounds. oi that his weight to-day is exactly 260 and th ‘ that circus work. I know twice as Ry eT - ! at he will enter the om ring at 260, much about fighting as I did at Havana. Tn all stall I oan uso in the whic! ing and you'll ge I'm a better fightor ihote “than he weighed ai | when I mest Dempsey. For ono thing, ‘There were no scales in|the only left hand bitw I had at Havana was a straight punch. I had right uppercut bat I couldn't “he Willard’s boty was thicker and | | hem heavier, around waist and hips, than | | Silat Havana, but no heavier than in Li et, ae en tent is vd ata in nation is at he wou! eo in iting wed form two months before the Dempsey v= matoh. Fwillant ‘old to chin, nearty iifting sturdy Jack fran his feet. Another left uppercut at longer ranre, and Jess caught Hemple and rourhed around & moment without hitting again. boxed in about tte usual style, smiling most of the time, now and then crouching and trying to look fierce as he went forward in an at- tack. But the fierce look $s ovidently an effort. As soon as he shoots out and lands a blow the amfle breaks out, wider than ever, And he smiles when he ts hit, too, Seems to Have the Old Jab. Jess seemed as fast with his hands When he shoots a straight Tl Nike @ cat’ blows in ihe air with a swift blocking movement, and his eye and judgment for blocking are good, Where he is slow it js only the slown of tremendously big man not yet in mryeeif all the time,’ me while he was getting ready “I don't look ike a boozer, do I?” He didn’t. With the grease paint hed off Willafd showed a clean, ‘ruddy complexion. Stripped, White and clean, without b about my Grinki; have always been exagyerated, mever have been a Prohibitionist, and I take a drink whenever I want one, but that jsn't often, I never drank jenowgh to hurt me. The trouble ts ‘at wince I've been champion I can bardiy take a drink of soda without body's reading @ ry that 'm_sousing up.” “That' right,” broke in Roy reher. Why, one day in Kansas Jess was around the hotel and ME | over $10,000. They took it out of my ‘2 lot of his friends were inviting him ‘to Join them. I know Jess only inking mineral water that Say, but I beard an old fellow outside talking about it. “That fellow's going to get Ucked time he fights,’ he said. ‘I've seen him go into the bar six times. No fighter can carouse like that and be any Foo abd By this time the big fellow was ly to go to work. He called for ree-minute rounds and tackled a chine. For, three minutes, od £. ra rane, ere were three rounds of boxt) with Hemple, and then Jess went through a few calisthenic stun‘s, lying on his back across a chair and rolling around to harden his body muscles, lying on @ mat and going through contortions for the same purpose, and upending himeelf on his whoulder blades and kicking his heels tn the air. ‘When he was through his training clothes were soaked in sweat. Hemple rolled him in bathrobe and towel and he stretched out on a rubbing table to perspire under cover for ten another three, he yanked (Tex O'Rourke's elastic ropes vigor- ‘ously, danced from side to side and 0 d so hard that the sweat fom: the end of his nose and minutes before being rubbed, This wax tone” 7 touched genily ‘on ‘the aise u gently on the tales about Willard’s “ducking” the many opportunities to use his mame and ‘ cia amnieties: dak ) oe oe | thre Halk. % ™. HOW JESS WILLARD LOOKS TO-DAY fame and for war-work abitity work pur- ‘This wae evidently a sore et him. For a moment he kept still. ‘Then he burst out: “I'll tell you about that! Most of that’ was Jack Curley propaganda. He spread it all over the country to knock me when I broke away from him. He was getting even with me for what he called my ‘ingratitude.’ Can you imagine what I had to be fratetul to that bunch for? Do you iow what I got for beating Johnson in Havana? There was a pretty big crowd, wasn’t there? I'll tell you what I got. I was ‘charged’ a little earnings later on. lt was figured as my share of the expenses of the Havana fight. I had a few other things to be grateful for, too, but [ don’t care to talk about it. “I did @ lot of work myself that people don’t know about because J} didn’t use it to advertise myself. ‘They never heard of the work I did, and they heard a lot about what | didn’t do. I was in a funny position. If I was asked to appear in half a dozen places on the same date I could only show at one of them, and the other five roasted me for refusing to come. When Coffroth wanted me in New York I had promised to appear for the fund at Fort Worth. 1 couldn't break my promise, could 1? I showed at Fort Worth and raised $7,000, and Coffroth had his show in New York and roasted me for not being there, Another time wanted me in Iilinoils, and I Promised to appear in Kansas, That time I got roasted in Chicago. I boxed for war funds and for the sol- diers in several States and paid my own expenses right along. Once I went from Kansas to Florida when be”? asked me to box.” “How about the fight with Fulton for the Red Cross that didn’t come off?” “That was my own idea,” said Wil- lard. “Fulton was challenging me and I thought then he was the best man in the country to give me a fight. He was a good boxer and nobody found out then that he couldn't take I was sitting at a table in the dining room of the Rienza Hotel with Arc! and we talked over plans to help raise Red Cross funds. Be- | fore we were through dinner I decided | T'd offer to fight Fulton a real cham- plonship fight, with the title at stake, and give all the receipts to the Red Cross, It turned out later Fulton wanted to be paid, but I didn't. “We went to Red Cross headquar- ters and made the proposition. I wanted them to arrange the fight and fake entire charge of all money con- nected with it-—handle the gate re- ceipts and everything themselves. ‘If I handled the money,’ I said, ‘some- body'’d say I didn’t give it all to you’ ‘They eaid they'd have to refer it to main headquarters at Washington. Later they told me they couldn't han- die the fight, because it would arouse too much criticism, That is the only reason—eo far as I'm concerned+-the fight didn't come off.” ‘Willard laughs at Coffroth’s state- ment that he is “in the late thirties, or perhaps over forty.” He says positively that he is now Ae thane and that his thirty-sixth birthda} will be next Dec. 29. Ls | to beat Dempsey,” Jess said. “Ho may be all they say he ts, but I'm better than I was at Havana. I know a lot more about boxing and fighting. I'm in just as good condition as I was when I began training for Johnson, or better, I don't feel any older. I"m going to take off any weight I want to lose now, and when I train on the battle- ground I'll only have to harden up and get on edge for the fight. I'd rather fight Dempsey a long fight than a short one, because I know I'll be in shape to fight all day and I don't think he can stand the pace. I have all the endurance I ever had. I don't think he can hurt me with a punch and I know there ts a chance he can tire me out. That’ how it looks to me.” And Jess went home to dinner. —_——— Tdncotn Giants Tackia O14 Rtvals. (The Lincoln, Giants and the Roya) Giants will clash tn the third and fourth games of thelr annual serie io mp ton ati Olympic Tittn Btreet and Game being called at a In their last moeting ‘were shut out 1-0, Joe 0 for $ igs ui j 0 1000 0 O00 o 000 ° X Grimes, Brookira » ae caee i |e Cahors $63 the Woodward, Phila. 1 of Bae fotemceccss fd e 1} 3 ines, 1: B® toad Ontong o 1 ‘O00 my Chime . g 1 000, Pilingen, Hostion . 1 Bod yess Ohicago ° | i | Boston . . ry 000 Alexan Obicaao 3 8 % ‘ooo ( Wan! Samer e ‘ 000, National League Batting. Sc cbr eebascht-oeione: i Z i 2 : wHemeteosecousenscoe on s-w1soNsoctSeosHow, i eo soit at Re SeobS Tae ES eS eh eS ASSE he SOSSCSE neES Teeth eeee Soo | SeumeneeseaRceraTJu2. BLE9S- Pats SSOETEASESEStESNSEEMRSRNUSEA LT. F % ‘i ET i if Sie BSSES-SrISS ta sF ob SSEAEE SS CUSNS ee FS NS os EIB a itching @ no=hit wi the Royal 4, BRE SaSesD 8 Peececers PRORRORCE ER = BRR RARER: eo at a OZEMAN BULGER, for many years baseball expert of The Evening World, is back with the Sporting Page, after two years’ service with the army as Major of the 306th Infantry. He will appear regularly on this page. BASEBALL AVERAGES Of American and National Loagues spss pans pe nha peg ee IR NICER MIMMEHMSSOSSOCOSSOCOOH ERSTE SBR tee Bubowuon SUESEBosnon 2 1 e434 ee : Bit Bit a 3 ai¢ #72 ae g }s 7 6 fil Bi pil hid q aSe5Se75: wore oebione cacti aos: eae} Se 2 ccarscomeiscesienn-esoecooereeerewnaer-e-uewreneen-eve-wve-weneceoh wt to tne nen enene enepe encacnns: Ars penened penctcl tome SSeS in | Cubs be a specimen of the strength i t i Iyning when the sudden turn came in i i Giants Carry Team Playing the Kind of Game That Turns a Casual Visitor Into a Baseball Bug. 4 i punch. Whether it be tem- porary or the real thing would bo dificult to say at this writing, but there is something in the way they carry jt that smacks strongly of the days of 1905, when, after dawdling around for several score- lems innings, Mike Donlin, Roger Bresnahan, Bill Dahlen and Arthur Devtin would suddenly step right out and break up the game. In three of the four straight victories over the Cubs the Giants have cen- tred their attack against the first show of weakness and the fight was over before the crowd had time to speculate on the next pitcher. That is the kind of baseball that turns a casual visitor into a base- ball bug. Uncle Hughey McGuire told me af- ter the game yesterday that he had been holding on to his daily baseball diet with a bulldog grip since 1905, hoping to see the return of that old kick. | “And, you see,” | ways pays to wai Ig their work in the rout of the By Bozeman Bulger. HE Giants of 1919 carry a he added, “it al- of the Giants—and of the Cube—New York is in @ fair way to float an- other pennant. This in view of the fact that the Cubs, champions, are supposed to be the main obstacle in the way. They are not now. Perhaps the oldest recipe known for winning @ pennant is “a team made up of hitters that can hit, pitchers that can pitch and good fied- ing as first aid.” And, taking it as a |whole, that is just about what the | Giants showed against the Cubs. innings to and was at the rato of seven minutes to ‘the in= the last half of the seventh. The clean-up squad saw an opening and with @ cat-like jump registered on that old left-handed wizard, George ‘Tyler, just as quickly and as solidly as they did on the pitcher of the pre- vious day. After Doyle had been robbed of a smash that should have 8 been a two baxger, but for ill look, | Benny Kauff was safe on a hign throw. It was the first break, and the Giants immediately proclaimed it by hopping from the bench and waving their bats, Heinle Zimmerman, al- ways a Nemesis for southpaws, hit for a long single, sending Kauff to third, and Fletcher followed by beat- ing out a hit that scored Kyuff. Mc- Carthy then whipped in Zimmerman with a clean line drive to centre. Fletcher was caught at third and in another minute the dash was over. But it was enough. The game had been won, That's all, some of the old-time fans 4 the players there appears to be a little apprehension as to the future of the Giant pitching staff, that being the only thing left to worry about. “Good pitching,” they tell me, “is all we need.” And, as MoGraw ys, it is pretty hard to tell this early in the year, Three or four games, ac- cording to his theory, do not make a season. If, however, there are a few more spring games left in Causey and Barnes lke those of the past two days there should be little cause for worry. Both of them pitched with precision and at no time did either show a sign of wobbling, Their work was clean and businesslike. Per- sonally, I never saw either Causey or Barnes until the last two days. To: a newcomer, or rather a “returner,” the acquisition of that much pitching finish in less than two years is amaz- ing. McGraw evidently ts planning hts pitching campaign with great caution. Of his veterans, Benton and Dubuc appear to be in best shape. Conse- quently he {s bracing them up with the spectacular Causey and Barnes, thereby giving Poll Perritt, Thoney, Schupp and a youngster named Wi tors an opportunity to work into their roles by degroos, If this plan works out the machine ought to give the Gianta a corking defense by the mid~ dle of June, As to hitters, McGraw has no cause for worry, Old Cy Seymour was at the game 3 Saat mee Sy 7 YOR Hew we meary Looms — AUTTLS OFT PUMP AND KO the Punch That Smacks of 1905 When They Had Everything Thursday, not as the rollicking Ola Cy of bygone days, but as an invalid, He has lost much weight, and is really a spectre of his former self. they were sending him to yesterday, and from there he would Probably ‘be sent to some mountain resort. Seymour has not been fortu- nate financially, and there is talk of baseball doing something to help him along in the fight to restore his health. Seymour has the enviable reputation of never having failed to keep a promise, no matter how trivial, since he became a player, He deserves all that baseball can give him. The playing of Sunday games has caused a terrible mixup among the gatekeepers over the matter of the te aide sedans HEADPIN TOURNEY . 48 ROLL-OFF TONIGHT 4 Three Men, Tied for High Indi- | ‘vidual Score Prize, Will Decide ij le Bowling fans from all sections of the country wili flock to the White | i Peters roll off for the high individeal score prize in the closing World Headpin nament bowling in the United States, especially in New York. Here in Years Carded To-Day team arrived in New York bast night. and the Pennsylvania athletes are early this morning. The meet will egin at 2.3 { intercollegiate proper serial number for games in the pass books. John Foster asks, for tne love of Mike, that all holders of pass- books which have the detachable num- bered slips not to tear them out Sun- day. The book itself must be pre- sented. This is the only way that he can prevent the serial numbers get- ting mixed up for the succeeding spring, iyers 0 - who tied for first place in the inter: collegiate pole vault — will compete Shaw in the quarter and half mile runs Haymond in both sprints and Myers in the pole vault. Pennsylvania te conceded t» have the * ‘eam, among jts mem. |Sere:"in. addition to “Haymond ” Mumer Bhermian Landers end Willies ‘Bartsle, | 5 Landers a the 1918 winner of the pentathlon. games. ‘Those books were printed and | the slips numbered, you uni without the extra Sunday games hav- ing been taken into consideration. The Giants wore mourning bands on their left arms yesterday for Ger- many Schaefer, who died suddenly at Lake Placid. Basebalit will miss Schaefer's smile and humorous antics for a long time. Benny Kauff ts not a pitcher, but claims, and justly so, that hereafter he should be called “First Assistant to the Day's Heaver.” He caught five line drives in two innings, either of which might easily have gone for two nd three bases. They have thrown so many gam- blers out of the Polo Grounds for bet- ting on the games that they are now © outside the gates and laying odds as to who can slip by the ticket taker. ‘There were enough old-timers tn the stand yesterday to make a couple of ball clubs by themselves. In one group was geen Billy Murray, Dasher Troy, Joe Kelley, Larry Emrich, Hughey McGuire. And Max Ham- | tennin burger was standing in the next aisle. Reds Chase Dodgers Brooklyn Team Loses Close Game to Cincinnati Clan, 1 to O Being Score. By Richard Freyer. NCLB Wilbert Robinson, who a4- vises tho Brooklyn ball team Ihow to win ball games, was all set yesterday to put across his new scenario entitled “Revenge Is Sweet.” ‘The Brooklyn nine was to have been the hero and Cincinnati the villain. The plot did not turn out to Uncle Wiilbert’s liking, because the villain instead of going down to ignominioas defeat came out on top in glorious victory. Score: Cincinnati 1, Brook- lyn, 0. Owing to this fact Mr. Robinson and his cast were chased out of the first place theatre, where he had been playing since the National League cir- cuit opened, and was forced to billet is clan in a second place house. Director John McGraw and his Giants showed Chicago how to put over a real show, and for that reason they are occupying the house vucaied by Brooklyn. A young man named Luque oc- cupied the mound for Cincinnati. ‘This gentleman practically made the Brooklyn players eat out of his hand. He allowed them a total of five hits and for good measure threw in three bases on balls.’The Reds’ inner and outer gardeners backed their pitcher up in grand etyle and did not make a misplay. Mr. Luque just thr the ball to the Dodger players with a: expression that sort of said, ahead and hit it. My fielders will throw you out.” Marquard, the human leaning tower, threw them up for Brooklyn for seven innings, when he was taken out to allow Schmandt to bat for him. The Rube pitched good bal! in all in- nings but the fifth, when a single to contre, two infield hits, one to deep end one near third base, sent balls, which the Reds’ catcher \ a hard job holding. . ™ “That's right,” chirped a fan tn | back of third base, “better get high balls out of your system. be able to serve them after eee ‘When Larry Kopf came to bat the last half of the ninth he tried fool the fans. In the four-; ries Larry was ridden by every time he faced the pitcher, on bis last trip to the plate disguised himself by batt handed, The fans were wise and Mr. Kopf was given reception. RACING MONDAY at JAMAICA LONG ISLAND $2,000 NEWTOWN STAKES CLARENDON HANDICAP And 4 Other Fine Races FIRST RACH AT 2.30 P.M. SPE R Titra it iy Feeege ty wi AVe., Br Intervals up to, ve. "L' to 1601 o by tratley, oom Jadies 81.65. THOM