The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-03
WILL Be A RUSHING FIGHT
Jack Dempsey Says His Tilt With
Mccarthy Will Be TO a Finish.

Friends-What He Has Been Doing
at Tybee for the Last Five Weeks.
he Will Return to Savannah After
This Fight and GO in Training for
Another Bout.
Jack Dempsey, the nonpareil, the mid
dlewSight champion, who holds the belt
for the many contests in which he has Ell
gagged, came Up from Tybee Island yester-
day and took the Central train at :45
last night for New Orleans, via Atlanta
Dempsey looked the picture Of hearty
good health when he arrived in the city.
His countenance was rosy, the unmistak
able color produced by health and sun
combined. His chest was well expanded,
and he appeared much more stout and
muscular than he did five weeks ago,
when he began his work on the Tybee
beach.
Dempsey left Savannah to meet Billy
Mccarthy followed by the good viii and
wishes of the many friends he has made
since he has been in the city. If he does
not win the twenty round battle it will
not be for lack Of earnest encourage
ment and hearty good will that he has
had here,
TALKS LITTLE ABOUT THE FIGHT
Are you ready to meet Mccarthy" he
was asked by a representative of the
MORNING News who met him at the train.
~ don't think I'll fail to show up when
the time comes" he replied. 81 have
given the matter little thought, to tell you
the truth, and in fact have said little
about it except when some one else men
toned the fight to me. You ask me if
have any confidence of my own success in
the contest. Isn't that confidence
enough"
1t is true that Dempsey says very little
about his coming fight with Mccarthy,
and those who know him best and have
been closest to him since he began his
work at Tybee remark upon the fact that
20 he has had little or nothing to say about
the encounter.
HAS BEEN DOING GOOD WORK.
$50 you have been doing your own
training" he was asked.
Eyes" he replied, II do my own train
ing. l don't have any trainers, but ! like
TO have few men around me to make
good, cheerful company, TO rub me down
properly, and men ! can spar with when
want TO do that kind Of work.
What kind of work have you been do
ing on Tybeel"
"Oh, everything. l don't take much
advice with regard to training, but devote
my attention to what like and what l
think will do me the most good. Tybee
is a good place TO train and it has almost
every convenience for the purpose Dur
ing the FIVE weeks | have been there l
think l have worked three or four men
half to death. ! did everything l wanted
TO do just so it was work. | have been
Z fishing, swimming, running, punching
the bag, sparrinE with the boys, using
the dumb bells and the swinging rings,
ana in fact doing anything that would
build me up and get me in shape.
WORKS AS HE PLEAsEs.
81 have been working from four to
eight hours day. he said, in response
to another question, depending on the
was too hot TO do much work, and l have
seen the time when couple of hours good
work in the sun there would take off sew
eral pounds of flesh.
About eating and drinking have been
very much as have about my training
have eaten anything that was good and
wholesome, beef, mutton, lamb, chicken,
calvesfoot Jelly and occasionally drank a
bottle of Bass, ale. If | want glass of
ale or a drink of anything else l take it,
If want one l take one, and if l want
two or three do the same thing. | am
al liz III dS long dS 1 dlll carer VI, as 1 nave
been, not TO take too much. Too much
water is as bad as too much of anything
else to drink
WILL WEIGH 142 POUNDS.
"At what weight win you enter the
ring"
i will weigh just about l42 pounds 1
weigh now with my clothes l5415, and
make an allowance of eight pounds for
clothes l will take off the balance by
lforbY yrrlr h,e, - h..
do you expect TO do any other work 20
ooh, yes, shall do some light work
going down, and also after my arrival in
New Orleans. | will reach New Orleans
Tuesday morning about o'clock, and
Will do some 100 yard sprlntS, use the one
pound bells for an hour ata time, and per-
maps punch the bag for half an hour or so.
Wednesday morning, the day of the fight
! will run hundred-yard dash and then
have good rub down. After a rest
will take about the same exercise, per-
haps, with some other little work of five
or ten minutes at a time
Have you any information as TO what
will be McCarthys weight"
Yes. think he will be a little heavier
than am am told he will weigh about
l54 pounds in the ring
MAY BE A RUSHING FIGHT.
"Do you think you can whip him as we'll
as you did in San Francisco four Years
ago3' was asked
Il have no idea what the result will be.
and as said, give it very little thought.
II took twenty eight rounds TO do it then
know | have got good man to 90
against, but don't feel uneasy. This is
advertised as twenty round contest, but
think 1t will be a fight TO the finish. 1t
will be- if he is going TO make a rushing
light OF IL, as he asserts he is anc at that
rate II may not take twenty rounds
to finish it, but l will meet him
at it. Neither of US could stand up for
twenty rounds in a rushing fight, aud if
he starts out with that idea | think it
will take less than twenty rounds to de-
eide who is the victor. | think | can
rush as well as he can, or l can make a
good attempt at IL. Under these circum-
stances think a twenty round fight can
practically be considered a fight to the
finish"
he WILL RETURN TO SAVANNAH.
ct is reported that you will return to
Savannah after the light" said the re-
porter
~ s, expect to come right back and
go IN training again at Tybee 1t is as
satisfactory place as have ever found.
My idea is to train for a fight with an
other man whom / have long wanted In