The evening world. Newspaper, May 10, 1921, Page 19

CHALLENGER OF DEMPSEY ~*~ EOR WORLD'S FITLE “Cares D8 by ed Pe a I Become the School Champion CHAPTER 1). HERE is an impression in this zie country that I was born in Lens, ‘That is not correct. I was born Jan. 12, 1894, at Lievin, which Is quite near Lens. ‘The fact is pointed out with eome pride by residents of| Lievin, although th place of my birth, it seems to ia rather al Matter of where my parents were living at the time and had no part in bringing me ¢. as a boxer. | My boyhood, however, was spent in| the mining city of Lens, where the] Germans wrought such shameful de- étruction duri war. It was! there that I fi Francois Des | camps and where that wonderful friend deve t t of boxing | and tau t t that has brough . T went to # in Lens along with the children ¢ ther miners, My father saw fer me the life had} Jed that « # coal from out the earth I was 1 ia was to be my t fe, but, happily, Francois} Descamps knew better. How differ- emt things woul! hav been to me dad l ep this life two of my brothers did! The applause of thou- querin an r blazing Vehts in aw rp g would fas tive pponent of the ¢ mpie wo | My school day w beief, [am @orry i du more t ne than ty anythin My t pers fay that J ¥ ost dist sing upset th t 4 of th ss a, My Infection. Out 1 " 4 most handy youth with my I no only fought any e wh wa i to feht, but we a f my ay quarrel. No 4 1 as 1 rel fome; quite th 1 simpl T mak sone f © dhood esn't, I My Victory Gu CHAPTER II! ¥Y PARENTS OBJECT when I and t to box. My Amps agre merized me “Georges.” he said, “1 am Prof. Des-| amps. You must not forget that.| a orih you are mine| n of E yu will do as I bid} you You have 8 oxers, + you 1 w their noses and twisted, puffed ©, you shall be an artist, You 2 E. Z. Garter fits perf sion, because the wide webbing naturally ‘‘g to every movement of the leg, yet clings to it snugly. nt | Yiduality, personality Z ‘Too “wah vim for his ene Ps and this want my parents agreed that I should Join the gymnasium classy at Prof. Descamps's school, There were two classes adults and the other for children children were not a They were given wha would be called in this country ting-up” exercises, The younger folk were supposed to watch their elders at their boxing lessons and to do their learning along those lines purely from observation, We would have been queer children, ver, had we not taken advantage asional absenee of our parents Descamps to try our hands at It is customary In for the recreation hour to by t Th to box suppose one wad I and M the glove game France levoted to a pint or two of beer. The elder pupils spent an hour at this di- version every day and the Professor alw: , ys accompanied them. returned unexpectedly and found mo pummeling one of the bigger boys with my baby fists encased in enormous boxing gloves used In the One _THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921, _ WESTERN INVASION STARTS. ~ AGAINST GIANTS AND ROBINS Cardinals Ree First. Appear- ance of Season To-day at Polo Grounds, While Reds Tackle Brooklyn at Ebbets Field, By Robert Boyd. OR the first time this season the Western teams will be seen in the Hast Branch Rickey and St. Louis aided by Rogers Hor year's batting potentate o National League, will Polo Grounds Moran and the will tackle the river, invas: hie the meet the Giants at the vile Pat Reds Dow across the Previous to the today, the Western te. nearly a month in t of the country, the i cin n, starting ms played for wn Rect! ners doing most of thelr playing close to the| Atlantic seaboard With only four points behind the Dodgers, in their desperate struggle for secon the National League ra ale start their series with a weaker team opposing them than the Blooklyn club. Moran has managed to keep his team in fifth place during its Western engage- | | better after they pt | ments, while throes of ing in last piace, the Cardinals are in the a playing slump and trai! below the Phillies. Just how strong the Westerners are this year will be determined much have finished their tay with Brooklyn and New lowing the Cardinals will ede, ‘Then come the Chicago Cubs and the “Dark Horse” of the National League Race, corse Gibson and his Pirater Although a powerful team on the offense last year, the Cardinals do not appear so formidable this year. ‘The big four who assisted Hornsby last season in their assault on many a Natiopal League pitcher are not ng up to their 1 hitting “form Wournier, MeHenry, Heathe r Stock have fallen off so badly the start of the seagon that the ( have dropped with a crash into last place Ferdie Schupp, Doak, Pertiea and Jesse Haines constitute Rickey's hurl- ing staff. A poor hurling staff they have proved to be, as there is nof one of them capable of consistent on the mound In the last few y have always dropped the scason's games to the G 1920 the Glunts defeated the most of the games—sixteen The Reds defeated the to ten, while the Dud me the work to six. ns twelve rs easily de feated the Giants fifteen to seven. tered in the savnte championships. Now savate, as you probably know, is a game of kicking instead of strik- ing. I had practised It assiduously | he has always taken and learned much under the tutelage | he ages, He was a young man when he first took me on his knee and told me a glorious story of a ring futur the altitude that was much the older, ymnasium, My flat had just cor nected with the jaw of this big fel- | of Descamps acquiesced probably because low and he went sprawling to the| J Was twelve years old when this| knowledge of athletics was som hoor as T heard the voice of tho Pro. {eventful happening came into my life.| greater than my own, For this rea- fessor, Filled with fear of impending pun- tshment I tore off the gloves as he upproached. But, d of a repri-| he seized me by the arm and, frowning ferociously the Inste nand, to deceive ear: “Excellent? Excellent! How would you like to learn to box?” It was done! T quivered with emotion, It seemed impossible that at last the wonderful Deschamps wa to show me how to box. I was un- able to reply, but my eyes shone with the answer, From that momont my instruction began. I lived only to k m: ‘of. Deser into my brain and box. The things showed me sank stayed there, It was a hard achool [but what cared 1? I was to be a woxer with my hands. | watching children, whispered Jn my | I was but a thought of fear in my heart. Dexeamps implicitly, © Lalways have. ild, but there was no|#on I have always obeyed him with- I trusted | out question. Our feet in Bethune, T did set to won- B _GTANDING Or THE CLUBS NATIONAL LEAGUE, | AMERICAN LEAGUE, | urleigh Grime Wi ins His Third Game in Row for Brooklyn 1 Team —| ons, WLC OW | CW PT Ok wk OP li waver mre Dod Onty Pitney 18 4 400 [Chneiamatl... #13 409) Clestane 18 6 oe oe ywever, the OX t rookiyn ... 14 8.636 [Benton 400 Washington 11 9 Gai fives Bikak ee PY 2iemond Durst ) rr rensit silemtaenia: 1s S| Gonaetes.'s & 4 e en Break in Phi | Chicago #9 \s00]9t. Lowe... 417 .260| Mew York... 9 8 528 |Cnieowe uitilesHende: 1ovls, M The Tigers w GAMES YESTERDAY. @AMES YESTERDAY. UiNe-F reader « id anane 1s series from the | At Taiiadepale—(rem Game Ar | tig, Laue by a Wore ot ve vetoes ogy 11h Tag HILADELPHIA, M bb's ton ninered Nick Cullop | : gh Bi Ratteries Oita and Alnemitn; | Culley Hecsuign tone ‘ ‘ Heenan eat the coe ntTES teri Grimes nod Milder; tet) ti Gain: called at the end of ‘powemth dour head N ot | A> Aa. vi geeee it ee ims 2 2 GAMES TO-DAY. 1 | vaaves Hence ae | " season here yesterday, ‘The Dod , ; cae alten Cusemr sad Peters: Cadore snd Krve- |New York at Detroit came through a winn int ™ lonle at Of. Loot. he Felsen 1 | Kant uo Oniyeseore mieduled } Boston At Chioaes. pe CURIA NE The | tome (Sires GAMES TO-DAY Washington ot Cleretans 1 ‘ bird 4 M a Bt. Louls at New York, ye ‘ Cineinpalt st Brookiys INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE, ! Chieage at Philadsienia 4 workin, ie cr th ! i r aii Tani "I ’ met tt an Pauly ne for six innings, but | to 2 The local players hit Joe Finner Habits ' ath four bite aod two er- lan hard in the early part of the fray, pisos ; a ( | and two more in the third. ‘ f nnn a Rbbets's q i fi EOL | ‘ole Four Win Another hings, was Phi Brook: : ‘ dic Game. Peta EM a meets any{li'| RANELAGH, England, May 10—Mem- | 1-04-46 lthe season and a big bers of the American polo teain, con- e1oos The Robins to: cock Jr, J. Watson Webb and Devereux Reading. he Milburn, to-day In a oractice ne won GAMES TO-DAY. Grim FH Ronin to 2 amainat a teat | sermy Clty at Syracvee. Olson a Major rrett, and the Newark at 8 blow ayers, Earl Hopping and| Itimere at Rochester, ard Reading at Toerewte. and | have So when he said [sho .} prepare for| dering of what was in store for me, the savate championships 1 set about | but I was not excited, 1 did visualize | it withou murmur, what was about to happen to me, but that we de- ‘Twen- It was on Dec, 4, 1906, parted from Lens for Bethune. against }ty competitors were entered and they m: Day after day L went through ma nocuvres with my hands and my feet, | Descamps patiently correcting the tendencies that might spoil what ha turned out to be a glorious future When I starte was ne thought of a world mpionship, but who can say that I abould not be proud of my development? Lam im- nsely 80. er My Parents shall pe a doctor of phystology. You shalJ understand why, when I tell you that this or that blow will accomplish @ certain thing. The clever and dis tinguished boxer must be a man of brains, not a brute. it is the skill ind. selence » you, so that when you go out he world it will be as a skilifu man-killer, Indi- shall your thlete and not as a be | eAgeene \forte. There shall be no temper, only From th Lhave been under|Stone and ice, 1 shall be the hot- @irection of Descamps. He has guided| headed clown—the voleano. For my every foot The evening 1/months you shall do no boxing, for| ran to his house to inform him that|in the first place you must be pre- 1 had gained the {of my par-|Pared for boxing.” ents to enter on a ting career, he| And then he took me to a trapeze took me on his knee—I was but alhe had rigged in his gymnasium and apa <I ind launched into aj Showed me simple gymnastic exer- epecch 0 ndiloquence that mes-|¢ That was to make my muscles supple and acquaint them with stren- t.| uous work, he said. He was righ he proper sort of trapeze and bar exercises are wonderful for condition- ing a boxer. Then there came a glorious day in when Descamps caine to me, his eyes glistening, and said my li i} “Now you shall get yourself ready | for your first bouts Bethune and there We shall go to you will be en GARTER @ Wibe For Comrort ectly, but with no annoying ten- >, soft ives ora ew ery 1 mp Ava. each other without regard to weight height re eae ther without rem IBDN) Ale Nack Stops Sheldon tn Fifth , Row of a ter I.] Allie Nock, the Harlem lightweight It supply | Who has made a sensational come-back, s journey “or us} stopped Jack Sheldon In five rounds to go to Bethune. I mps wis athe New Star A.C last night. sheidon io to scrape together the money}io throw up the sp | necess: ay our car do buy [fWelve-round bout was a fast draw be-| ale il Hg. els Vous Ttween Joey Leon and “Harry Landon u loaf of bread for our was announced that next Mon tay the way in the train he held tight to}right Charlle Pilkington faces Johnny my hand, laughing happily at his own| Hite and Sol Seeman mects Mike Arra ontinuous run of conversation and] —— [cannot make| Mike Gibboms Knocks Out Frankie ur experience, Magaire. irrenee not only|. PHILADELPHIA, May 10—Mike Gib- Des- s that send red to do my as been thie way, the b ir He has been ci verything to me ta ut dispa n ow keep my | | { | \M inatead of dréading ft, I longed for It. I was about to begin a glorious career. I had no doubt of ft. (To Be Continued To-Morrow.) bons of St. Paul knocxed ut Frankie} Maguire of Willlamsport, Pa., here las he sixth round’ of thelr elght-round bout with a ch in the stomach, Johnny. 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