The evening world. Newspaper, July 3, 1919, Page 8

RIVALS SKETCHED IN ACTION . Coperisht, 1818, by The Pree Publishing Co, (The ,New York Evening World). LARD MOS CONFOENT : FIGHTER THAT HE HAS SEEN Wee WN 25 YEARS, SAYS EXPERT ob rt Edgren Declares He Thinks d’s Mental Attitude Much Better Than Dempsey’s for Big Battle To-Morrow Afternoon. | Jack Can Win Title Without Scoring K. 0. ip, A number of queries have been sent By Rébert Edgren d i tle, The bout is scheduled for twelve rounds to a decision and it at the end of the contest the two the bout the referee, Ollie Picard, who has been appointed, will render the verdict. If the challenger is given the deot- sion it will not be the first time tities have changed in this manner. Johnny Kilbane took the featherweight chem- Pionship away from Abe Attel on a decision; Freddie Welsh was declared the winner over Willie Ritchie in twenty-round bout which went the Umit and was awarded the light weight title; Kid Williams lost the dantamweight title to Pete Herman in @ decision contest and there are several other instances of this char- (Continued from First Page.) fact that his great size Mas made any match with a smaller man unfair, And there were no Willards to meet him. jow Dempsey has come up and by a succession of yenerien over the ‘ \staaid . heavyweights in the country has prov.d that a smaller man may IF "WILLARD FIGHTS “on THE DEPENSIVE, Yale Five to Play W. ana J. Sr aiccata ahs ghunte ier fest seven ta. bo toeks one waive tee puerto. Peper? RE RC iin De el hd Das @ t ABLE To o University’s etball team was to-day oreak under 245 pounds of solid flesh. He is the modern David iM. definitely placed on the Washington and f Goliath of Lado, { Jefferson schedulé for a game in Wash= “ ington on Jan. 1, | Not Likely to Ever Figh t Again if He Wins. One more reason why a great percentage of those who will gather a in the arena at Toledo favor Dempsey is that Willard has been oan tive champion and in all probability never will fight again if he wins, » + @ large man, but no giant, young, aggressive and liking the “ gport that Willard follows merely because there's money in it, promizes JACK DEMPSEY’S if he becomes champion he will defend the title against all worthy STATEMENT i There has been a lot of talk of big betting on this fight. But it ts ‘all talk. Little real money has been put up by either side. Although ye. 3 “I know Willard is a good fighter. If he wasn't he wouldn't be Sees Sa cee rene Me 1 earl champion. Any man can be knocked out, and a man who hits as hard as Willard does might knock out anybody. I am going to be careful il cpetun et:treibing ie won i that he doesn’t fand the-right punch on me, and I don’t think I will need and he trained easily for three twelve rounds to show that I can beat him. I have seen other big men He has been remarkably fall, When you sock them right they all go down. I worked my way up to this fight by taking them all as they came. I expected to win every time I went into the ring, and I feel the same way about it now. When I got Fulton I knew it was Willard next. I will beat him if it is in me. I sure expect to win.” See ee ate — ae remem owt me- ‘Who couldn't feel glorious this Fourth! The war is over, rity reigns throughout the land and = Vee Good time to give Par-amount Shirts a rough and tumble test. \ They'll make good anyway e you try them—in any company, 4 absolutely lgcking in JESS WILLARD Standard quality $1.50—De cool and perfect in defense, ST TEMENT Laxe quality $2.00—our only . : . Some have soft collars at- : Sho w Limit of His Powers, P ‘ WHEN GIANTS DROP tached—just the thing for com- | who haa won twenty fights with one-rouna || ,_ "2 lnk this Will be the easlest fight I ever had, because T can sto Sum of Money Involved in Staging} schet—iort tne thin 4 any man who comes to me, and Dempsey will come. The faster he © Thea nd ol ee rs and who never has been beaten since ” A s an underwear, socks, belts, i comes the better it will suit me. I have been panned all over the coun- Toledo Battle Is tounding d pajamas, penn Rigs meen . try by the propaganda boys behind Dempsey, and this is where they | : : meed and everything guar- | : lose their meal ticket. I hear Dempsey is a nice fellow. I am sorry hy j Gate Re ceipts Are Likely to peso ae bach if net sasisped, é for him, that’s all. I have trained myself to be in my best form July 4, Mi i +; z ’ and I am right there on the minute. I don’t think there is a chance in |/Dodgers Whale Ball Hard, Reach illion Dollars. ata, il ten every night for fore he risks trading punches with || the world for me to lose. If I should lose I will take my hat off to Which Causes Downfall of r] , Dempsey and say he is the better-man. If he can beat me he will be : ° By Robert Edgren. norm, 4 And qriwling Wiese po ari a) nee entitled to everything that comes to him.” National League Leaders. Copyright, 1919, by the Press Publishing Co. (The New York Evening World). F id v ~ } hip battle A : something drops, won’t stay away, TOLEDO, July 3.—July 4 will see a heavyweight championship ‘ for each other's vital spots, the By Bozeman Bulger. that for upique features is without a rival in the history of sport, Fi 4 @ perfeet blow. UST as Old Uncle Wilbert Rob- heaviest man that ! ¢ most unlikely thing in the world, | Plenty of lung capacity, His forearm measured 14 inches, tha same as ie every peed ed eer Jess Willard, present champion, is the biggest and hea si > not beaten down with a single blow, | Willard’s, His waist was 32 inches. His wrist was 9%, which is three~ heuie "ass, “aay ‘ball’ oft lone (7% held the title. OPS i & * He had it in early fights and he had |@¥arters of an inch larger than the champion Pp er is peonheee sis nih annie Jack Dempsey, challenger, has the most remarkable knockout record TT X 1 Tas't Le fi asa mpeg BO Tomas RuDae booed syhekt we oeidlea Bagh a reeae y adiseuct tee but pai coed far. can shrivel when | ever known in the heavyweight class, 968 THIRD AVE. |1526 THIRD AVE. he boxed exhibitions dally through a | Dine po ‘ * Th of money involved in staging thif bot is astounding. The ‘at Goth Strest ft 86th Street weeks ago. He hasn't trained hard enough to lose all that, Nervousness | they blow. e sum Mae bees Sat, Tit Be Bes peavey” guns entirety takes off weight faster than anything else. Is the tension of being on| As a result of a catastrophe of this | arena glone cost Promoter Tex Rickard more than all the expenses of an} | 2286 THIRD AVE.|2835 THIRD AVE. , 80 he never has lost his muscular power or his eye for a + 4 128th St, Harlem | at 149th Si, Bronx jom that is absolutely essential in fighting | ©4se for a month beginning to tell? nature at our Polo Grounds in the | other Championship battle ever held. The original estimate of the arena| 1,1) ou) owes Jo) Sms Oo naw, i= Se rumor aid. he hasn't shown any| | Jimmy De Forest says Dempsey will put on seven pounds in the two second attempt at subduing the Dodg- | cost was $148,000. ‘Tribune Building | at Tih Avenue fe is ol His skin ts smooth daya before the it. But a man under a@ nerve strain doesn’t gain we! , hreat- t. ~ f ; ey lear. je. and his nerves are im Hag ri adios tap View At toatart at tb and fight at beltbair li py lad Seceig opanes The boxers are to ev the greater sie ever paid in any bou' 1628 BROADWAY © at S0th Stroat 7 having watched the two hen from the beginning of the | top speed, but’ he is drawn too fine. There is a question whether he can ute oe Utes ca the basin of Moe Willard is to get a flat sum of! 000. _—— Se to this day, I like Willard’s mental attitude better than Dempsey’s, | fight through twelve rounds without weakening. ie Wak da patenial Ghames O70 Dempsey is to get $27,500. f champion hasn't worried for a moment, He is the most absolutely As for Willard, the doctor’s examination showed him in first class hadteaihic ta Ran the teak Both men are part owners of the moving picture films which will be ; _ confident, cock-sure of winning man I ever met, I was talking.about the | condition, lungs and muscles normal, pulse normal, blood pressure normal, neon iedagg ott 4 neat ana|#hown in the State of Ohio, in Canada and in Europe, Australia and omar? RACING ; mt with Vien night before lam ‘The'aoctor sald Willard ought to live e hundred and Atty years. He made! __, Ger le *the early stages of the | parte of the world. They will not be shown in any other States than Ohio ar Pa it rather strong, Willard’s chest is 43-inches normal, 47% expanded, His |[OtY during the early stages of the j “1 hear Jack Curley is-going to sit near Dempsey’s corner,” he said. | waist is 37% inches, his biceps 16%, his forearm 14, his wrist 8%, pulse 5¥ and Bert Cutler, the champion. bil- | Because of the anti-fight picture law passed to prevent the showing of the/ A UEDUCT “Hf 1 eee him I'll knock Dempsey over the ropes into his lap.” and blood pressure 123. His height {s six feet seven inches and his reach ‘off their coats, unbut- | Flynn-Johnson pictures. ; f 84 inghe 1x inches 1 than Dempsey's, doped cullare ana were seedy 2 adi seats to the bout! | ard doesn't rley. “propaganda” #, OF six inches longer . toned collars and were ready for a Five days before the Fourth the advance sale of e JUL ’ ! i eer Sasa es Ghttran ton ce cont n° Fifty-two thousand people have paid ag pyre’ to see ient train gery eine ne eemsriee reached the enormous sum of half a million dollars, It is estimated that by | gs g95 ULY Ath 4 T sat in Willard’s parlor at # in the evening, Jess had just come in |snd the same number have seen Eeaneet oe blyon Bory dag snatons [bench dreaming about duckshooting | 3 o'clock Friday afternoon, when the men enter the ring, that sale will have $3,500 CLOVER STAKES I arrived. He explained that he had been out for a ride in his car, | tom of the Intense local interest ) ba T/next tall. Hughey MoGuire started | (oo one millicn dollars |] 2 MILE STEEPLECHASE \ carried @ cane in his hand. I didn't ask why he carried a cane while | »#Ve come in large numbers only just before the fight. dozing as soon as we got the two-run |" one & And 8 Other Grand Hollday Ventures. t | riding and he didn’t say. But he denied that he had been doing road Contractor McLaughlin finished the huge arena, which seats eighty |lead. Just then a crash awoke Larry Mr. Rickard estimates that the Sgt of putting on the bout will be over Ynst RACH AT 2.80 P.M. | Work. Jess sat there and joked and laughed and told funny stories, Appar. | thousand people, yesterday. No such amphitheatre has ever been built be- |Hmrich and he nudged Bert Cutler, | 4399,099, < ies Peet ale Tabet natch f t was off his mind, Two days before defe - | fore, It is tremendous. It is @ marvel in its fine, built to hold four times |!" time to see the prettiest play of the spectators if all tickets are sold, Avs algo trom Viatbush Av.." Brook: ently the figh’ day defending his champion season go up in smoke. The hall of ‘The arena will seat 80,000 sp bd 0 Sa aa and at frequent: tute, % ihe was thinking of everything else in the world but the great event, | the weight that can be put on it. very seat gives a clear view of the ring. | fame was rapbed of new members, Special trains have run to Toledo from all over America, Thousands 91%; *t 23 pg. “tyfroquent, inter One section of seven hundred seats has betn reserved exclusively for ladies | “Heinie Zim. Dovle and Chase had P ' Not Satisfied With Way Dempsey Has Been Handled. and Mrs, Rickard will be patroness, Wednesday there were still twenty- | come withing hele of making the feat | of spectators have come from every city of any importance in the country. ~~ With Dempsey it is different, I am not at all satisfied that on eight thousand unsold seats, which will be quite enough to cover any last|triple play of the season. Had the| ‘Toledo being centrally located, the fight has drawn from New York, St. 9} Brookivn s mw 4 oe Ob ae » now that the ts h of tators from out of town, umpire been possessed of imagination | ,, ie ~ Station. date is here, that Dempecy thas been hasidied in the best way for this fight minute rus! spect ‘ fo parb dy have allowed it, but he is a | Paul, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago, St, Louis, New Orleans, Boston, GRAND REAWDOR-00; LADIKu.6 1.05 Hie imae perfect on the day T arrived at bis camp's monjh aac sHe moti ‘The latest story ts that Willard will call for another physical examina. | Pe net eee neces and’ allowed | Omaha, Denver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other citles as many spec- pital fepiae STi dy j ] dave gone into the ring with Willard the next day, “He has heen perfect | U0 of Dempsey at the ringside to make sure Jack is 4n At condition to| two" ota wut called the last runner | tators as would attend the average boxing contest in any oue of these aport + D twibe wince than, each timo after @ six-day rest. But he has been puvhea | S44 & hard punch so that Willard can cut loose and hit without worrying | safo at firsi—by one thin inch. centres. : +s —— ag hard training that he didn't need, largely be: p over consequences and perhaps to get Jack's goat. If this happens Demp-| Having been folled in that heroic The profit to railroads, Toledo hotels and stores, street car lines, tax! tie OM a = By vy * largely because crowds came t0| sey will probably demand a last minute examination of Willard, What's | attempt, the Giants drabbed their dau. companies and other business associations is beyond calculation, Sh sh d B ea po art ue ante cee Oe, Peniad Schon, og it, It 18%) eatr for one will be fair for the other, And Jack Dempsey’s Punches with | bers foe ee re ieet UD is sine Willard and Dempsey have trained daily before average crowds of more jeep: ea ay 7 question whe! man . ui . very next inning Arthur Fletcher, v4 ¥ ‘Dempsey never trained lorig for any other battle. From three days to | %® Sve-ounce gloves are no love taps. king of shortstops, booted an casy |than five thousand p Pais WO PEEPS B Gonee Soc, £08 59. privilege \ Spe way | & Week has econ him ft to enter the ring and two weeks has been quite chance all around’ the infield and|0f looking on. Half of this money gon loon) orga: h enough for any fight. He is young and never far from fighting condition. away went the pastime Bert Cutler Among the spectators will be thousands of the highest officials in the be is of working for more than a month is new to him, It might put on Als collar, After Johnson had United States Army, Navy and the Gererareeat, and thousands of the most uly 4th at ee have been better for Dempsey if he had trained for this big battle : sing! was @ pounder trom Grif- | prominent business men in the country. | Gant hp he trained for many vier” During the pant ties orto ane's|| tow Dempsey Is Outclassed saat Wiest aber echtea™aned UP] | To, handle the immense crowd the gutes ot the arene will have to open | eee e 4 i nw begins at 3 have seen signs of nerve tension, Of course, Jack is a natural fighting Will. P 2 bases. Jimmy Hickman singled, scor- yb hb Mv coli vo cle teas, ais July 4th 100: Mile Derb Ee are, hiwming with the spirit of sesresciveness, thinking By Jess Willard hysically Le eters ond another romped |" Witiard will welgh between 240 and 245 pounds, Dempsey between 196 ‘ rachel CA al Httle ragged. I maw him atter a workout this weell when he had Mis rub. | JESS WILLARD JACK DEMPSEY During this windstorm McGraw | and 200, In spite of the difference in size Dempsey has been made 10 to 9 at, DE PALMA 4 Greased and came out to ride in his car to get away from the crowd “= took out Ferdie Schupp and put in| favorite in the betting in cities where he has shown in the ring. pe him with fight talk. He was dodgi aoe i a? 44 AA nA" OUI ey eo ae res Jean Dubuc, but it was too late, The Tex Rickard has™broken world’s records for gate receipts in each of 3 P, M. L : SR oe oe ea eee eapled ine Dene ae kl” 240 i Giants had fulfilled Robbie's predic- | the four contests he has conducted, He brok@ all records for purses when es WILCOX pis : tchen : ; A S he gave Jeffries apd Johnson $101,000 for a forty-five-round championship ke ; Rostienaye | vibe wie vin. As mine abihe tone tani tnacle Mucee|| 5 feet, 64-2 Inches........Helght .. +6 feet, 1 inch ]],,¥e% they DO took bad when they | posite and Is now wiving $127,600 for a twelve-round bout. Algo 12403) rdadways I us ind he calmed down. But coming back a boy threw a ara creatine 84 inches . -Reach , . ++++78 inches : omens Jack Kearns, manager of Dempsey, promises that if Dempsey wins he General Admission ®1, % © inta the road behind the car and at the explosion Dempsey jumped violently 43 inches Chest (Normal) Prive oH It is quite evidont that ¥Ferdie| will be the first champion to defend the title against all challengers since a 7 ; “What aid he do’that for? A man in normal state ct subPpeedicd atideste hp 4 seseeeee 443-4 inches Schupp is not yet all that his admir- | Jim Jeffries won from Fitzsimmons and took on all rivals as fast as they Direct Wire F: Ri ~ would tardly have noticed the explosion at all. ‘That was days 47 3-4 inches... Chest (Expanded) 45 7-8 inches ers have claimed for him. While] came, He intends within two months to meet Carpentier of France and the Tem ming since then Dempsey has been appearing daily in the ring before 17 1-2 inches K 71-2 inches Sits Ghat was injursde-8id = pod Jot | hempion of Magiand after which be will mest any Americsn challenger, WILLARD DEMPSEY even if it was only to shadow box for two or three minutes, ‘4i eee: * Walet ” +47 4-2 Inches Reksoe le nilil'a litte dleteene eae He will not go on the stage or into the moving pictures, This will break . been in the quarters at the Overland Club, never alone, never having || 27 3-4 inches . : . +eeteeee32 inches |] being the pitcher that he was two | nother record, Tist REGT. *43,20 204 in his room, They have talkea|| 17 inches ......... : arn .. 45 inches || Years ago. He worked hard and put Y yy 166th Street “and hasn't had a rest. i ; all he had on the ball, but toward Irinh-Yank Meet Arranged. John L, Sullivan Left $3,624.71, 2d BATTERY nih avcuse ing Commaiasion’s doctor examined him and 41 imohes ..... +++++9 inches the sixth inping he grew unsteady pryyeas ed Preas).| ABINGTON, Mass, July 3.—Aft S. Army and Navy Welcome Guests Physically perfect. His heart beat is only forty-four, 461-6 inches ...66.6se0e BICEPS oo... ..e0.0. 613 4-2 Inches |) ABA Nad to be relieved. | MoGraw is |The Irish ‘Amateur Athletic Associa: |maling more than a ‘million dollars ag | eee nn elon’ wh * & not at all optimistic about the condi- | tion has arranged an international con-| heavyweight boxing champion, the la’ ' than Bat Ni 's was when Bat's slow heart was said to] 8 1-2 inches .............\Wrist 9 1-4 inche tion of the pitching staff right now.| test with in, {rom the American |John 1. Sullivan lett an estate vaiued| WILLARD-DEMPSEY ,{!ShT A His blood pressure was normal, 122, ce a) og oe Army in 1 The, meet will be bald at Behn senordine te Promete sates | ‘09TH REGIMENT ARMORY, Lie I ° % . M. in Dublin on July 12 ere am ber! 5 10 ion On Lexington A) 4 26th Street, : 4 GM. inebes and expanded, 16%, guareatoning pert ntetestett © Recent i rover von 0 i i a i id ove’ s * * ‘