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al A. C., New Sporting | in This City, Has Lofty HE Continental A, C. is the f ‘Ota new club in the proc- eds: or formation in this city, if present plane ate carried Will hy the first of @ string of utions extending from York % 2a: Francisco in all the Its charter maotubers, } inctpal one being od Strect, tw sives % a twelve- building, the cost of which Is ly estimiuted at @ cour try club will be main« providing facilities for golf, baseball, foot- y track and néw club, which has already cherter, is to have the staging of athletic entertainments, such tray. ehooting, Se ee ee ee i» what the club's press to say about its plana and ‘club is to be the last word in the modern improvemen: facilities. - In addition Pootts it will be equipped with jum, an indoor run- carried to a suc- tinental A, C.'s with the New : Of e etmilar ine} 22 184 who may be champion of the world before the week is over. De it Hugh Brown the time he was @ mateb in which to transform Biad- tack what-not, just to make en comfortable wan: oe have. bean fellows have broken a hand or turned an ankle while taking it eusy. to} Jack sprained his ankt joa which Gran a new edifice, social-sporting or; world, If you happen oe aege d apts l Street venue an: , you that the old ‘Garden is mut u with nary a change jn ake m Pe ny Gon fine enough to fight any distance now, and T want him to put on weight ‘tye noticed |and have something to draw on, He will eat @ little more the next ee. four days and he will put on six or eight pounds. That means that Demp- rem. you would” 2 brown bas t with — » that the Con: has uo better basis for ‘Mthan = Grant had, for there actually Is need her big. clud in New York. / —— HE more I think of Willard, the more I like Dempsey's to wit at Toledo next Fri- ” gaid Jim Guider last De remembered that Guider spent ining camps of both the work of the eyes of an expert. is just one thing that I am in jd Guid W's power of resistance, Willard punch? If he wd Oght, or rather if nt him and evade the big fel so couple of rounds, forcing m to be aggressive, his chances will “May \deas Willard | ! According to not trained for ames as this and would pooe “4 Dempsey has the speed im Jook ridiculous if he em- It in the right direction. Dempsey will tire some doing ‘but bis youth and natural stam- ‘will. make recuperation for him than it will be for Willard it Willard can't go fast, because he hes to set all his feet up to punch hard, | does: pace js set. y wiral in his movements and doesn't to think twice about what he | He has the best shift nm ee Retphe) used to db, is openings instinctiv: Bunches with speed to th te a sherpshoote: It lool looks: e inside of five [FHILE the heavyweights are oc- stage, we must not entirely |!ard out in one round, You find the little fellows. Th | for instance, ho is trying to get Pete stake his bantam title tn over the twenty-round route, ig to be chan pion for then he could earn enough noney drag his Dad from t business HOW WILLARD IS GETTI DEMPSEY'S-TRANING OVER, BUT WILLARD WON'T END GRIND TILL THURSDAY Challenger’s Trainer Declares That ' He Is in Perfect Condition for Big Scrap and He Won't Pull On a Glove Again Till He Faces Jess Friday. " Py Robert Edgren. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World.) i TOLEDO, Ohio, July 1. B88 WILLARD will continue boxing until Thursdey, but for Jack Dempsey the daily grind Is over. At 4.8¢@ yesterday afterncon Jimmy De Forest, pale, anxious, moving nervously around the ring at Dempsey's camp, suddenly shouted began to smile for the first time this week, “All over, Jack,” he said. "Not a thing now to ‘worry about.” en he wiped the sweat from Dempsey’s head and shoulders and at by cautioning Jack to be careful, as Jack hopped down from the elevated platform of the ring and started back to his quarters. In his old, ragged red sweater-—th eater Jack wears as 4 mascot Because it has been with him in training for many quickly won fights— Dempsey pushed through the crowd that was waiting for a last look at Forest was at his heels, When tho trainer followed Dempsey into tho house and turned to shut the door he smiled again and wiped the sweat from his pale face. , “Geo, I'm glad that's over," said Jimmy. “This last day has had me worried. I had a feeling that something might happen to the boy—sorne accident. I thought he might break a hand or get another bad cut over the eye, and I toid hig to box ax lightly as he could, and gave the others orders. not to hit. hafd whatever Lappened, But you know how many three weeks before the Fulton fight by just turn- ing around quickly when Kearns called “time.” -|Dempsey Won't Put Ongloves Again Till Fight. “A fellow breaks a hand while fooling with somebody much oftener than in a fight. Now he's through. He won't pull on a glove again until he gets into the ring on Friday. He is in perfect condition and he doesn't need any more work. I am not going to have him dry out because he's y will go into the ring weighing 200 pounds or a little more, We have in! in & matter |taken care not to let him overtrain, and it has been hard because he feels like working all the time, He has come through all right, and I'll temper. Jack is as easy in his mind as he would be if this was only an ordin. ry bout. I have trained some of the best fighters in the profession to bela dim, win.s Remember what I tell you.” were bundreds of new faces, for every train coming into Toledo ts loaded tobe present if Dempsey ts crowned King, treble holding back, for his natural style ia all of the plugging and ham- with his natural speed even the impact of his closed fi knockdown blow. horseplay for the crowd, and nothing ¢! the past four weeks, were like boys starting ona plenic, “IT certainly am glad this is ove six feet and rubbing his hands over his stomach, death I'm not watching any more.” Dempsey toe to toe day after duy knees and given him b battered face made a picture of the utter weariness and dejection, Dempsey’s Popularity Has Influenced the Betting. nome scores of men who flatly annu' will finish the champion within six rounds, of ring affairs—who say they can't beating down the giant as short too, that Dempsey will hit by W cut which ts the champion's most natural blow, with all his strength. ther should ever be i gee i ols Copyright, 1919, by The Press Publishing Co. “time,” and hastily threw a towel over Jack's shoulders, Then I Forest | a lasting impression, outs in th® first round, the fight would be a joke, to make a joke of it in spite of a f six-inch handicap in height and reach, . After the training yesterday I had a talk with Monahan and Hempet | Each was anxious to assure me that Willard js in splendid | I knew these boys well in Havana and have met them often since, | T felt that they were both anxious to prevent my making what they would consider the mistake of picking Dempsey to win, It might have been | to boost thelr own man, but I don't think And his followers arg just a natural “Very good,” said I. Hempel smiled. “¥ box like the same man, say J never saw agboxer train better or more willingly, or with a better in the past twenty-five years, and I never saw one of them any calmer and more easy going just before a big fight than this boy is, That's going Dempsey's last workout was held before a crowd that packed the canvas walled inclosure. It was as big a8 any Sunday crowd, There} with Monaha followed as usual with men who have come to see the heavyweight championship battle and For once Jack didn’t hit a single hard blow. It was easy togee he had mering sort. He tapped Nightly and slowly, for if he shoots out a blow could pump » without the weltht of body and shoulder, and the drive of the legs behind it, is a Me went through six rounds with Tate, Jamaica and Jock Malone, and he didn't strike a single blow with weight behind it. Tate gruntea once in a while when Dempsey bit him. in the body, but it was a little} than he was at es been rounding out as the last trace of fat melted away. Witlard has been working secretly on the road at night. e, After finishing with each sparring partner Dempsey shook hands else would account almost ‘ceremoniously, said ‘Thanks, old boy, fine work,” and gave each a friendly slap on the beck. The sparring partners were grinning widely. Tate and Jamaica, who have had their full share of hard slams during sald Big Bill, stretching up his way to New Orleans as a bi McAllister’s boast that he weight champlonship bout since that day. “He likes Dempsey's chance. Leonard, Richie Mitchell, Gene Delmont, Bat Johnny Kilbane, Johnny Schiff, Freddic Welsh, Jack McAuliffe, Battling Levinsky, Tommy Ryan, Jack’ Sharkey, Mervin Thompson, William Muldoon, Johnny Everhardt, George ‘Engel, Charlie Bronson and plenty of other new and old timers, can be seen in the hotel lobbies day and night, 123,500 going to the principals, To-day the ticket silé is said to have reached half a million dolla: The gig rush is just beginning. . Toledo hotels have 33,000 rooms, and with all of the temporary sleeping quarters arranged the 60,000 out-of. town specators will be well housed, ‘ “My body certainly is sore where Jack soaked me and I'm tickled to To thie Jamaica, the game little 170-pound black boy who has fought srinning assent. I knew how Jamuica felt. Two days ago when Dempsey had dropped him to his reark bat! through two hard rounds, I happened to glance behind a screen in the dressing room an hour later, ‘There was | Jamaica, still in his sweaty tights, lying flat on his back and staring at the ceiling. Limpness of his muscular body and thé pathetic droop of his Bitiy Gibson, ‘elson, Frank Moran, Kid Thomas, drawn by a fight with If I seem to have written much detail of the doings in the training * THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JULY 1, 1919 -BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK NG INTO SHAPE -_ .- (The New York Evening World.) By Robert Edgren KEARDS Booby ee Ba AGAWST WILLARUS STaMAcH, | Eliminations that popular favor is with Dempsey, and that this influences even the bettjng. Willard is in first class condition perhaps as good as he ever was in his life, and he 1s champion, Normally, he should be | But Dempseys’ wonderful condition, speed and record have made While Willard has been out of the ring for f years, Dempsey has in the past two years won twenty fights with kno If he were still Dempsey and as big as Willard | Jess’s Trainers Think He's Better Than at Havana. think of the big fellow's work to-day?” queried | “He looks faster than he has been.” he said, "I should say he is faster, And He's stronger than he was at Havana and hd@doesn't | He does things now he never knew how to do I think he's twice the man he was when he beat Johnson.” “He's wonderful,” chipped in Monahan, he used to be, and he's as strong as a horse. was at Havana, and I can't do anything with him at all, ‘him, no matter how hard | land, He's better than he was at Havana; he's better than he ever was before.” And Monahan and Hempel both | stood looking up at Jess shadow boxing there in thegring, They looked | at him with an admiration that was ulmost reverenc™. partners—the men who have felt the weight of hi® hand—Willard is more than an ordinary man, He is almost a god. Willard’s workout yesterday was three rounds with Hempel and three by @ round in which Monahan threw the sixteen-pound punching bag against Willard’s ribs, and the shadow exercises, In all the shadow boxing he chased an imaginary Dempsey into a corner of the ring, where he stood in a squat- ting position, half crouching, leaning well forward, teeth showing In a ferocious grimace, driving furious uppercuts with both hands as fast as and down, It has looked from his shadow boxing work as if Willard intends to make this his one rushing, aggressive | Between rounds Willard danced around and shadow boxed, taking And he didn’t breathe hard at any time or show the slightest | the pace, He is no thicker at the waist now les have His legs look better and his mus Man Who Never Picked a Loser Likes Dempsey’s Chances. _ Among New York sportsmen who looked both men over yesterday was Walter McAllister, who hasn't missed a championship since he beat his to see Corbett whip John L. Sullivan, It's had a bet on-every winner in a heavy: camps during the past four weeks it {s because it is in the training camps and pot in the betting or the hotel lobby talk that there may possibly be a solution of the problem of July 4, If you listen to the crowd you find 2e that Dempsey will knock Wil- many also who say Dempsey will And you find others—most of them among the experienced followers Magine any man of normal size ht as twelve rounds, They say, rd's sharply delivered jabs and that Dempseg comes in a with a crouching attack that will leave his uncovered chin « mark Willard can't miss with that terrific right upper- f a quarter mile track and a grand stand Inside the big two-mile If the amateur body is successful in obtaining the track |t plans to hold the annual senior championships | Dempaey battle. on the new oval Aug wooden circuit. They argue that while Dempsey has a puzzling attack and a world of speed and a wonderful punch in either hand, Willard is a great boxer and puts such weight into a blow that any swat of his is likely to end the bout—especially it he is stung into throwing caution aside and hitting | St need for @ regulation track In ¢ city where national champ! efforts will be stand seating poveral, Part of the enthusiasm for Dempsey and general derogation of Wil- Je to build ‘i Jard 18, dus, 99 goudt, to anipesr's popularity and Willard’s unpopularity, eral sueuaend ‘wiki housand persons S Polo ante tat “ sealetieiiiensgretMiniorteateiclaeient tiated MAY BULD TRACK FOR FAKE TICKETS FOR FIGHT. ATHLETES INSIDE SPEEDWAY |r. spe The Metropolitan Association held a| conference with ty sof the Sheeps-| TOLEDO, O., July Fake ° fight erday and diseuss-|Uckets have made their appea: ce different parts of the country, accord- A Cine there is|noy a tick promoters, was marked with the pilot of Brooklyn, will be a contestant in the 100 mile “ndependence Derby | To’ establish a standard is ene at the Sheepshead Bay Speed WILLARD IS FAVORITE AT 10-6 10 10-8 FOR FRIDAY’S BIG. FIGHT! e that he is big enough | Champion Is Regarded as Best, But rty-pound handicap in weight and | pion Is Regarded as " | He is the man who delayed entering the classi Dempsey Gains Sup- DO, O., July 1. to-day ranges from a 10 to 6 to 10 to 8 favorite in the great ‘ight set for Friday. are he will enter the battle for his championship at 10 to 7. Dempsey has gained supporters in the last week, largely because of the fact he has worked hard, whereas Big Jess has been con- go algng easily. people who have watched the two scrappers work out have been in expressing their They profess to be fled by Willard’s condition. ls plain the champion is in tion to fight. the greatent mate ace avery staged, | Standard Shirt, and $2.00 for the \w on hand to-day with the other | -amo' irt— |international stars to qualify in the | Peereonny DS Ane, ie elimination trials this afternoon under | And guaranteed satisfactory or {the direction of the Contest Board of | your momey back— the A. A. A. ‘These tests will be thrill- | ; ; a \ing, as every driver entered will make | Which clinches the argument. jsure that he be a starter and will | |“open up” wide, which means speed |never beforg beard of. | Cordially, Gi | jILLINOIS GOVERNOR VETOES BOXING ai. PAR “He's twice as hard to hit as/ I'm in better shape than I| I can't. move| To bis sparring | Johnny Dundee Outpoints Brady In Speedy Battle Special to The Krening World.) SYRACUSE, July 1 ound bout@ ever seen in Johnny Dundee, the sneeuy Italian lightweight, out- pointed Ralph Brady, the fast local here last aight. ‘The fans went wild because of the ex- citing milling put up by both lads all In one of the! the Peoretary. |,," favor boxing,” said the message. | 1 had hoped that a bill would be pre: Nothing his swift improvement in form during the past Although Brady was the friends were gr showing as they realize that Dundee st lightweigbts in the history of the sport and that it is no disgrace to be outpointed by him. From the first gong the boys went hammer and airplane stunts making a big hit with | ly pleased with is one of the « The profession 19} j,a@1ed by the antics of his opronent and kept scoring every now and then, Alihough Dundee won every round = 80 well contested will probably clash here again in the near future, as the fans cemand a return engagement between After the battle protege’s hext important engagement will be with Champion Benny Leon- Another Show A squadron of ing to complaint made to ‘Toledo police to-day by Frank Flournoy, Tex Rick ard’s partner in promoting the Willard~ Knights of Columbus wrestlers and fighters visited at War Island for the fifth time last night and exceptionally good 1 man exhibited to Flour- which he said he had pur- chased in that city for $49, This ticket, while not exactly like those used by the ted to thirty The following iis ‘of boxing boxed six rou seat number and section and carried the title ‘Willard-Dempsey” fight printed across | Y Young Dundec. | ‘ewen | Theobald R. and Richard L. 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