The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-13
DEMPSEY IN SAVANNAH.
He Will Go in Training at TybGe Next
Month for His Fight With Ryan.

rnons-Corbett Mill, but Says It VIII
Be a Hard Dempsey Has Fun
With Jim Brown in New Orleans.
Jack Dempsey arrived in Savannah yes
terday morning from New Orleans with
his trainer, Mr.. James Brown, after an
absence from Savannah of nearly five
weeks. Dempsey is looking we'll. and
shows no i'll effects from his recent bout
with Billy Mccarthy. He was given a
warm greeting by his many friends in
Savannah Naturally he made his head
quarters at his old friends place, John
Cars, at Bay and Price streets, where
q Morning News reporter found him.
Dempsey talked very pleasantly of his
stay in New Orleans. He was we'll treated
there, he says. He made no complaints
of the decision of the referee declaring his
fight with Mccarthy a draw. Still, he
said, he thought he was entitled to the
victory He had understood all along
that the man who had the best Of the
fight at the end of the twenty rounds
would be declared the winner, and he was
surprised just before going on for the
fight when he was notified that if both
men were able to come to time at the end
of the twentieth round, the fight would
be declared a draw and the money di-
vided.
Dempsey protested that this was not
in the articles. but it was too late to en-
ter into a wrangle over the conditions
of the fight then, and so he accepted the
new conditions and went ahead. Il had
the best of it in every round" said Demp-
sey. There was no doubt about that"
Dempsey is TO fight Tommy Ryan of
Chicago before the Auditorium Club of
NV Orleans in the early part Of Decem-
Der for 1000 and the welter weight cham
pionship. Ryan is a good man, so Demp-
sey says, and has whipped everything
he has been up against so far. Demp-
sey would not say that he felt sure of
whipping Ryan. In fact, he never dis
cusses this feature of his fights, but his
manner of quiet confidence in speaking
of the fight indicates that he thinks he
is the best man and intends to prove it,
The fight is to be twenty-five rounds or
more, so it is not likely that it will be a
draw.
Il have nine weeks ahead of me in
which to prepare for the fight" said
Dempsey. Il shall take a months vaca-
ton and then put in FIVE weeks training
at Tybee. l shall, of course, do light
work during the next month in order to
keep in condition. l shall put in a lit
tie harder work in training for the Ryan
fight than l did for the last one, and it
will be more systematic. We are to
weigh in at 40 pounds, and so l must
train down little more. l weighed IN
for the fight with Mccarthy at 1851
pounds, and after the fight was finished
my weight was l4lh. 1 had lost just Al
pounds, so you see l really ought to do
better work at 140 pounds than at las"
Dempsey declined to discuss the Cor
bett-bttzsimmons fight, or to express an
opinion as to which he considered the
better man. 1T is said that you will
second Fitzsimmons when the fight comes
OFF," he was asked.
i shall be there simply as a spectator"
was his reply Il acted as Fitzsimmons'
second when he fought Creedon and |
seconded Corbett when he fought Nit
chell, each time by request of my prin-
cipal ] was well treated by both men,
and have not word to say against
either. This much l will say, and that
is that when the fight comes off it is
going to be of a fight, and the man
that wins will know that he has been in a
fight"
You think Fitzsimmons is a pretty
good man, them"
He was man enough to lick me-" was
the laconic response.
Fttzsimmons, Dempsey said, belonged
properly in the heavyweight class, and he
does not think there was anything par
teularly audacious in his aspiring to fight
Corbett. Still, he would not say what
chance he thought Ftzsimmons had to
win, If any. The boys will watch which
way Dempsey puts his bets, however.
What is a welterweight hghter?"
Dempsey was asked.
BLESSED if | can tell van and have
been in the business all my life too" he
replied. "A welterweight seems to be
from 100 to 40 pounds. l always consld-
cred anything from 1888 to $50 pounds mid
dleweight," said Dempsey.
Dempsey said he had no idea of inviting
Fitzsimmons to go in training at Tybee
as has been reported.
Dempsey was having lots of fun kid
ding Jim Brown yesterday. Brown it
seems, made his first appearance in the
ring at New Orleans. The Operator Com
pany was stranded there, and Dempsey
and the other prize-hghters gave an ex-
hibiton for their benefit. Brown as a
heavyweight was put up to spar against
John Duffy, Dempsey and Andy Bowen in
succession, Bowen and Duffy being light
weights. Dempsey takes great pleasure
telling how Brown came to him lust be-
lore gong on and begged him not TO
strike him in the stomach, and to make
the same request of the other two.
Browns stomach is his most prominent
feature. Dempsey did as requested. and
Bowen and Duffy agreed to it. And then
to think" said Dempsey that after all
our Kindness he did his best to mash us
into jelly. You ought to have seen the
sledge-hammer blows he let go at us.
It's good thing they didn't hit us. When
Brown went to spar Bowen he showed
his greenness by getting into the wrong
corner, and then after shaking hands with
Bowen he hit him a clip in the law be-
fore Bowen had time to put his hands
up. Bowen got mad and chased Brown
all over the ring"
Brown looks better than he ever did in
his life. he has a well-fed. prosperous
LOOK, and was evidently well treated Ia
New Orleans. Brown says training 4
prizehghter beats tanning cotton ali hol.
low.
A Cleveland (O) dispatch dated Oct TO-
says: One of the cleverest fought glove
conests that has ever occurred ip tbie
city was brought of tonight at tho
Cleveland Athletic Club. The princi
pals were Pat Ready OF Washington and
Tom Kelly, the "Hobokeu cyclone" Roth
men weighed In far below the middle.
weight limit, and each was In superior