The evening world. Newspaper, December 21, 1922, Page 16

“I KNOW I CAN ~ ALL HEAVIES BUT CHAMPION [COMPARISONS ARE "RING TRASH SAYS JESS “Why Should | Bother With Second-Raters When | Know | Can Win Title,” He Asks—ts in Great Shape Now and Not Look- ing for Easy Money. By Robert Edgren. When Jess Willard isn't around it is hard to take his “come-back" am- bition seriously. So many other ex-champlons have flivvered after being out of the ring a while. 5 But whet Jess is present, fight stuff fairly Oozes from him, and there i@ sotmethiing impressive about the big fellow’s grim and crisp utterances. Chatiie Payne and I were just talking about Willard and Dempsey wher Willard dropped in for a call. Payne, who ts something of a fight bug, Wab deséribing what he ssw when Willard boxed an exhibition re- ote vy part,” sald Payne, aa TS Willard ever Axhts Dempaey again 1 want to New York and began fight- Tm gothg to put a little eet on nim |ing. That was practically my start. se ee mpetY|1 was a grown man, but being #0 big training too, and I can't see why Wil-11 was still slender, like an overgrown lard shouldn't have = good chance-lboy. But I had my strength then. He's a Iittle fat mow, of course, but ho) Eighting never strained me. | never shows specd and he hasn't formotten | wag hurt, and the only time | was how te box. Kennedy, for instance.| ver knocked down in my life was at gould’t lay @ glove on him in & Weel | Toledo, | am thirty-seven now, and Pine Ae con stil! Heht. I have taken good care of myself Eng tat. ae take a eoupte of tinee Toledo I'm close to the height her heavyweights and polish them|°f ™ Caew Welaie es oft just to show people you're ft?” 1] |, one asked. “Is it pride or business that], “I’m in condition, because I've makes you insi#t on Dempsey first?” | trained three times to get Dempsey “Beouiive Dempaey ts the only one]! a return match, when I was prom- of the lof who isn’t o dub," said Wil-]!#ed my chance. Twice I was ready, ind. “I don't need to beat any aec.| after months of work, but I guess and raters. I did that long ago, It} they found out about It. wouldn't prove anything if I beat] “About weight? , I'll tell you facts. them. Dempsey can take on return] When I began fighting in New York engagements with the Hrennans and| ten years ago, I weighed 220 to 226, Miskes if he wants to, T'd be ashamed|and I was skinny. At Havana my to lift my hand to hit such ring trash.| fea! wetght was 238 1-2 pounds on Dempsey oucht to be ashamed to,|the day of the fight, though some- when I've been ready to meet him|body announced 243. At Toledo I again any time and give him a real[ Weighed ten pounds more, 248 1-2. fight, I've been after him ever since| Right now I weigh 265 out of train- Toledo, and he has dodged me to take|'ng, whic is less than I weighed om easier game. If Dempsey hasn't] when I viarted (raining at Havana or ” Toledo. ba Mecicrtcaen orcs to the} ‘Why should 1 bother with any publie that you ean get Into shape to| Matches with second-raters that I can fight Dempsey?” whip easily en Leone hel . Dem: +] Dempsey and win the je again? Wine pomypescrly bwin Wie Easy money? I don't want that kind. lard. “I'm in much better shape}! don't care anything about picking right now than I was when I trained|P easy money. What I want ts to for him at Toledo. Not that 1 wasn't] beat Dempsey. in good‘#hape then! 1 was all right. “I won't be the same man he met Not a# food as at Havana, but that/&t Toledo. He beat me there because fight at Havana was the cht of my| 1 Was reckless and careless. I never life and a man never reaches his top| reamed that any man could hurt me. form twice. Dempsey may never be (Seared erent as peey S bt him, ‘ ” cause I thoug' as a joke. #8 Sood again on be waa. at Toledn.” 1c, the first punches he landel AGE NO HANDICAP TO JESS. [in close didn't hurt nq at all. Tt “Won't Increased fige handicap] hardly felt them. you?” DEMPSEY'S ONE PUNCH. “I know that “No!" barked Jess. “But afew seconds later as we litle fellows who start fighting early.| separated ‘I started back with my like Wolgast, are supposed to besin} armg held wide open and he shot one , te drop back when they're eighteen] over and clipped me on the chin. or twenty. But big men don't mature} “Good punch, sure! And 1 was until long after that age. wide open to take it, That was the “Men are like horses. You break] tagt I ever remembered. But though a horse tn at three years, and atl] was half gone from that punch he twelve it's an old horse and not g004] couldn't knock me out. Next time for much more, But you break #] 111 protect myself at all times, and horse in at nine years of age, and|he couldn't catch me again like tha! he's a mighty good horse at twenty-|in a million years. two. Western, horses often aren't] “what have you been doing besides brokert in until\ they're twelve, and} training occasionally?" 1 asked, they're the strongest and best horses} Oy, deer hunting, duck hunting. in the world and last longer than any| oiimbing mountains, tramping throug? others. brush. Yeah, and I've been looking “A boxer who begina at fourteen or} at some golf courses, Ray Archer |: fifteen is all shot before he's thirty—| quite a golfer, you know, and he mst of them before they're twenty. | iikes to look ‘em over. Sometime 1 Old Bob Fitzstmmons was a grown} might try it myself. But I'd. feel man when he began fighting. See how] kind of funny hitting anythin lit- he lasted and what a wonder he was.| ije as a golf ball,’ “1 was twenty-six or seven when (Copyright, 1022, by Robert Rdgren.) Historic Bets on American Tracks — * How One of Biggest Upsets| mii tall fo Watters on American Turf Netted | against $500.” John W. Gates $60,000. Gates then walked over to Billy Dubois and made the same wager. A few steps away he found that Frank Moq had 20 to 1 marked against the Durnell horses “Frank,” said Gates, “IN just bet you $500 on the Durnell stable. ‘That's a bet, Mr. Gates,” Moore, "$10,000 to $500, While Gates was making these bets his commissioners were going through he outside ring, taking all the 20 to t they could find. Gates knocked the price down again but in all he cleane: The following is the tenth of-a se- ries of articles on Big Bets made on the turf. A story en how John W. Gates wae the only man to step the bookmakers will be printed on these pages to-morrow. One of the biggest upsets on the American turf netted John W. Gates, the noted steel man and plunger, said un $40,000. mora than $60,000 when Nealon won| Neaton's victory was in no the Suburban in 1907 at 20 to.1. The] popular victory. When he shoved bis publié lost $1,000,000 to the bookmak- | P/POWR Nose across the finish line only ‘ ag a a faint cheer arose for the public had tots we gag ae iat Pea paid dearly for witnessing the event ey. 7“ re OF Boots) Around the Westernor’s triamph was Durmelt came out of the West and] sone of ihe tradilien that ted ne was ridden by a Western jockey, W almost every case been one of the Dugan. Darnell had been ruled off} interesting features of the great race mpd Rad een reinstated shortly be-lrng winner was simply Nealon, a the race through the influence of horse. But the race was truly run Gates, who had first-hand informa-| ond the best horse won hen the the hietorte (tes bepan operations by placing +) large bets on Electioneer with thy © ubhouse bookmakers because he wuaht the three-year-old was the form § tho race. “These bets, as well as others made by members of the ¢lubhouse coterie, caused the bookmakers to lengthen the odds on the Durnell entry, Nealon and Faust. When Gates had pinced hie bete on » @nd while speculation on the race was at its highest point, he wudéenly shifted, He looked over the the horses went to post fraud. For a while the big bet of John W. Gates was in the balance Durnell had put one over on the tal ent, He had started Faust, with I. Dugar brother of Nealon's rider ap Faust caught an early lead, after Wleetioneer and others got in a jam, Nealon and held the lead for a mile, ran fourth for seven furlon) then moved up alongside of In the last déive for home it looked for a while as if Durnell’s stat would finish one two, but near the end Faust tired, Nenlon took the lead and won by two lengths. Mont gomery and Beacon Light fought it out for the place, Montgomery taking the prize Faust finished Lourth. of John Waiters and noted Bookmaker had 16 to 1 "Opa tet you ee cn the Durtet Some of the losers raised a ery of} F am # ¢ te GF THE Ob Tree \S FOND OF @onPaRING BENNY LEONARD WITH THE OLD MASTER. JOE GANS TO THE DISPARAGEHENT OF CHE PRESENT CHAHPION = THERE IS NO COHPAR— {Son BE~ TWEEN MEGOVERN AND THE PRESENT FEATHER CHAMPION (@> JHE ANCIENT. RING- BIDERS WHO @ANT SEE THE PRESENT DAY = OUTFY OW, WHAT A gies BUMS THESE GU’ ARE- THEN SHOULD HAVE BEEM IM THERE TWENTY FIVE: YEARS A Frock oF CLOSTERS INSIST THAT JEFF OR FITZ COULD Have THE EVENING WORLD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, TO22, KkNockED DEMPSEY A CouvPLE OF FRIED TRIPE. and Gossip By John Pollock Three attractive ten-round bouts Will be offered by fight promoter Jack Leon for the Brooklyn fight fans at the Rink Sporting Club of Brooklyn to-night. Happy Mahoney will hook up with Itallan Joe Dempsey, Charlie Goodman will take on Marty Collins, while Archie Walker, formér amateur star, will swap punches with Clonie Tait, the crack lightweight of Canada. There will also be a six and a four round contest, Gene Tuney, the Greenwich Viliage light heavyweight, is now booked up for another fight. His opponent in this scrap will be Harry Foley, the Seattle heavyweight. They were booked up over the long distance telc phone to-day to moet ina ten-round bout at & show to be brought off by the Amerlean Legion at Omaha, Neb., on Jan, 8 The five efght-round bouts to be fought nt a) vhow of the Arena A. C. of fy vn Alec Hart of Cleveland, and Robby Harret vs. Sallor Friedman of Chicago in the sta bout, A delegation of more than fifty Indios, friends of members of the Fri Social Club of the east side, of which Wagner {# their pride, wiil travel to H on Saturday evening.to witness Wagner box Milton Welss in one of the stellar events at the Commonwealth Sporting Club. Wagner Iw one of the most liked boxers on the enat aide, The fifteen-round Detween Bryai Downey of Columbus, O., and Happy 1 ton of New Orleans, which had to. be put Dack several days on account of a ralnstort at Rew Or intek Tortort on and Jeff Smith will m Wkely matched to fight fifteen rounds there. ti early part of next month. A match ham just been clinched between Frankie Sch the Bi facinniath Billy Ryan mut, i nA. A. of afternoon onf Jan. 1 oke now as if Wille Jackson ts in for ther beating on Jan. 8, as 4 3, of Baltimore, ola t who taken’ good care of himyel? aud { stiff puncher. Jack “Kk weight of Ch esting bouts hi, will be aday. plight Henny Gould, th to a ten-round ¢ ada. After ¢ New York Willie Herman, the Paterson, N + who ts now noan recently which Tatra y Bout reventiy hich, 1 France, to an in and lous to take on. ar: lightweight and § Joe Dempsey ina (en-round scrap. promleing lightweigh » : Says Boxing Chairman. By Alex. Sullivan. LTHOUGH rumors are flying A around thick and fast these days to the effect that soon after Al Smith takes office at Albany on the first of the year there will be a complete change in the person nel of the State Athletic Commis sion, which governs boxing aud wrestling in this State, Bill Muldoon, *hairman of the board, continues to ‘ule with a firm hand. The old wrestling champion, by his latest d ‘ision, spoils two good matches—at east, they look good on paper—foy Yew York. Bill says that Jess Wi ard won't be allowed to box Jack Jempsey here and that Johnny Kil mane won't be permitted to box Jugene Criqul. Tom O'Rourke, veteran manager of ighters and promoter of fistic events, 1as spent a lot of money in cable tolls trying to land Criqui for the Kilbane vateh. He also signed up Kilbane. It is reported that Tex Rickard his practically closed for the former hampion to meet his conqueror Jempsey, presumably ut the new Yankee Stadium, early fn the spring. O'Rourké had the Criqui-Kilban: vatch sewed up for the Polo Grounds ext Memorial Day. BUT the New ork Board steps In and says that {ilbane is no longer recognized as the vorld's featherweight champion and hat he is under nsion for not lefending his title against Jonnny dundee. ‘The Italian boxer posted his voney for this match, but the Cleve ind boxer refused to sign an agree- ent this hé was set down, Since then Dundee has not only eon awarded the world’s feuthe! t title, but he has won the § Nehtweight Kilbane, however, Ls still recognizod 8 the title holder everywhere out- ‘do of this State—in fact, the sa- jority of fans here regard him as tic hampion, ‘Titles don’t change hands mitside of the ring. The reason that Willard is barred ® because he is over the age limit One of the rules of the Commission 8 that no boxer over thirty-eight years old eligible to box in this State Willard {8 over forty—nobedy 8 to know just how much over, Jeas has been training for months to round into form so as the public would consider him worthy of “hance to regain the honors which he owt at Toledo. Dan MoK¥trick and Jack Kearns the American reproacnt ntatives of wl” who {8 regarded the greatest hoxer developed tn vope since the lays of Jem Driscoll, He has a ty punch, He is the recognized hamplon of Burope, having clinched th honors recent Mat thewa, English ¢ Criqui ts a war stopping Amplor Veteran, and it Muldoon Says Willard And Kilbane Are Barred In Proposed Bouts Here Jess Past Age Limit; Ex-Featherweight Is Under Suspension— “Neither Will Fight in New York as Long as I’m on Board,” a wonder that he is able to box at all, as part of his Jaw was shot away by a shell, but through the new art of face re-building, seems to be able to withstand as many punches on the vulherable point of the jaw as do most boxers Dempsey, ‘the million dollar fight- er," seems to be in more hard luck by the calling off of a Willard bout here, He was confident that he'd stop the big Pottawatomie giant as easily as he did before. Jhck closes his theatrical season in San Dies Saturday. He |s due here Jan. 6. He xpects to sail for Eufrope soon after and get his hand tn for his match with Harry Wills next summer by taking on two or three of the big Tellows on the other side, The big champion has been offerec a match with wrestler Strangler lewis at Kansas City next summer They want to guarantee him some thing Uke $300,000 for this freak mateh, \ Johnny Wilson, world’s middle weight champion everywhere outsldr of New York, is another title hol still under suspension by the board, But with a new boxing board it m be that all three—Kilbane, Willar< and Wilson—will be reinstated and allowed to box here, — — XAVIER PREP. BRATS MANHAT- TAN, Xavier Prep's baskethall team de feated the Manhattan freshmen yester- day by a score of 34 to 26 in a closely contested game on the winne AS A DUCK HUNTER GEORGE OLOM IS JUST A GOOD HORSEMAN George M, Odom is one of the best trainers of thoroughbreds. As a duck hunter, George is—well, however, just a good And because of this Gerry horseman. Robert L. came mighty close to losing a good trainer yes- terday. Mr. Gerry took Odom to Havre de Grace last Monday for a try at canvasbacks, redheads and other wild water fowl. The breeze freshened up a bit and the coffin- like sink box began to ship water. Mr. Odom, in his dilemma, forgot the signal: To stand up and wave for the attending launch. Inetead, he cried in vain for help as he for it. Hie sink s on the point of founder- vhen the Jaunch came over Odom to keep down lower in his “coffin.” Odom told he story on himself yesterday when he brought back the limit ef canvasbaoks. He swears he killed the ducks, but admits he was out with the best guide of the Suswuehanne fa BENEFICIARIES OF THE TIE GAME OF WORLD’S SERIES Founding 5 Bronx Charities. .. New York Tuberculosis Asso- clation . - Association for the meat of the Poor.. Institute for Improve- Newsboys’ Total BEAT DEMPSEY,” SAYS WILLARD, DEMANDING MATCH EVERYONE AGREES THAT STANLEY KETCHEL e0ULD Ryocte THE MODERN @RoP oF His WEIGHT KO0-Ko0 IN ONE SESSION WERE HE ALIVE. GOLUNBIA BEATEN AT BASKETBALL ARNY, 33 10-19 Fourth Straight Victory for 11 Army Five—Get Field Baskets. WEST POINT, N. Y., Deo, Army defeated Columbia Uni basketball yesterday by a score of 83 to 19. The victory was the fourth In suc- cession for the Cadets, Lhe Slue and White collegians fought navd through- out the first half, but weakened during the final pened. The West Pointers registered eleven field baskets, getting five of them in the first half, Columbia found the Army's defense strong and was able to break through it only infrequently. The down-river quintet registered only three baskets from scrimmage, two being credited 10 Strom in the first half, Springhorn tossed the other one with but two min- utes of the final period to p! fhe Cadets went out In front ‘rst, but Co- lumbia tied the score twice In the firs* half. The half, however, anded 16 to 12 {n Army's favor. line-up Vichal Rtoosma Dabezion Forh Stric Roosma “11 0 Strom 2 out of 2, Pulleyn I out of 10 out of 17. Prolffer for Strickler of 15, . Wilson Columbia ney Elizabeth Defeats Paterson In Metropolitan League Game Municipal Basketball Tourna- ment Arranged; Winimac Five Scores Another Vic- tory. Elizabeth defeated the Paterson team in a Metropolitan League game at Elizabeth, N. J., last night by a score of 27 to 23. Sugarman of Elizabeth played his best game of the Season, scoring nine points. Garry hmelke made eight points for the victors. The half of the game ended with a score of 18 to 10, in favor of Elizabeth. Benny Borgeman and Schnab did thelr utmost to overcome the lead which the home quintet had over Paterson, but their efforts proved futile Perth Amboy five, which has a record of seventeen consecutive vic tories, 1s scheuled to meet the Com monwealth five on Sunday at the Commonwealth Club. Commonwealth ames, and has yet been de prospects for a has won eleven straight ga since neither team 3 th feated this year, good game are br! it. Beginnin, nament for anid Jan. 6 a basketball tour- nunicipal employees, men ramen, will be conducted by the nm Bureau of the P. De- partment, The pub! on West 28th Street Street will be used as following departmen teams In the contes' Tenement House, President of Man- hattan Borough, Plant and Strue- tures, Police upply, Gas and Electricity, ning, Finance, Taxes and Assessments and the Board of Education, Wintmac Athletic Club won tts tenth straight game last night against the Stag Quintet at BK. R. C, No, 87. The Winimacs were forced to exert themselves during the second half in erder to retain the lead which they made during the first half, ‘I'he final score was 36 to 15, RINK SPORTING CLUB, INC. Vanderbilt Teton, and Myrt (THE is Ktallan Joe Charlie G @ At the 7th Regiment Armory to- morrow night, the 101st Signal Bat- talion five meets the 7th Regiment quintet In the first of a three-game eries of home and home games. The ond contest is scheduled for Jan 15 at the Signal Corps Armory. Glen Cove Y, M. H. A. scored an other win, this time over the Hunt- ngton Town team, by a tally of 54 to 13. Jake Kats and Steven Patrick Rooney did their respective stuffs for the victors, On Jan, 4 the Glen Cove team travels to Huntington for a re- turn game, MANHATTAN FIVE LOSES CLOSE GAME TO NAVAL ACADEMY ANNAPOLIS, Naval Academy defeated Manhattan College at basketball here yesterday afternoon by a score of 24 to 20. 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