The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-09-17

Dempsey in 1891 Now, / want to say
right here that was never deliberate
~ brutal in all my life, and in the S65
times I've stepped into the Ting ! never
Yet hurt a man more than L could help.
Any one who says | punished Jack
Dempsey deliberately or more than was
necessary, is wrong, and I'd want to
use a stronger word If IL was man 10
man.
OF all the fights 1 ever had l think
thar one with Dempsey hurt me worse
than any other. l don't mean he ac-
tually damaged me, but I felt worse
over it. You see, i was steered wrong
about Jack. 1t was q mistake all
through, and II / hadn't been put in
on the wrong play, Jack wouldn't have
lasted two rounds. / could have dropped
him TO the mat for the count at any
time l felt Ike III, and it's one of the
sore points I've got against Jimmy Car
roll, that the fight went TO thirteen
rounds.
I'd always heard that Jack was
game man. and that he'd fight all the
time there was an ounce of night in
him, and as long as he could see any
thing in front OF him, and now l
know that my first opinion was all 10
the good. When l was training Carroll
came TO me-We were equal partners,
you know, and Whacked ~ everything
OF that basis-and told me that there
was a disposition TO make out that the
fight was not going to be a long one,
and that he had found out that Demp-
sey had a yellow streak in him as broad
as a pine plank. He said:
You just tease him along, F'itZ.
Sting him good in the face and on the
nose, and he'll quit YOU cold. If you
30 after him of the reel. he'll throw up
his hands and leave YOU nat and the
fight won't last two rounds. The gang
will get sore, and there's liable 10 be
some trouble about the purse, and we
can't afford TO take any chances with
that $4,000"
I'd always found Jimmy on the
square. and after he had told me the
same story several times. believed IL.
because I didn't think he'd try to steer
me crooked. eased down on the
training, and made mp my mind to fol-
low his advice. Jimmy went off on a
spree and for the last few days of the
training he never came near me at all.
and that's no way to treat a fighter.
for when mans getting down toward
the finishing end of his work he wants
10 have everything right with him, and
worry Is the worst thing you can put on
him.
Wen, as I say. Jimmy kept away from
me. and I only heard of him once in
while As soon as We climbed into the
ring he drew the share Of the purse
that he could lay his hands on, because
he believed there was something wrong
or would be something wrong with me,
and. as he said, he didn't want 70 take
any chances.
Wen. Jack and 7 faced each other.
and ] tapped him a couple OF times.
looked him in the eyes and there wasn't
a sign of yellow there. He was as
straight and square that way as any
man could be. / staggered him cou-
pie OF times in the first and put him
down. but ne came back like a major.
ana there wasn't q sign OF quit in him.
7 leased him again in the second. and
cut him up a little, but he was there
hitting at Inc every chance he got, and
then / took out a little faster after him.
He was with me, and while he hadn't
q chance on earth, he was q sticker and
commenced % think Jimmy Carrolps
dope had gone 10 his head. and he had
hooked up wrong somehow. After that
7 knew I could nut Jack To sleep any
time 1 felt like it. but I logged along
with him. closing an eye here ana put
ting a mouse on his liz there. Once I
opened 10 the cut on his neck that Par
son Davies gave him, but he never
whimpered. I dropped him to the mat.
but he was back at me In q minute.
and looking for more. One round,
forget which now, ] dropped him four
times IN succession. He came back
every time. though. and / asked him
why he didn't quit. 7 kept on saying
10 him:
eco ahead and quit, Jack. You've got
enough"
But he wouldn't His face was a sight
ny this time, and he hadn't enough
strength 10 hit me anywhere. / weps
back at Carroll once when I went TO
my corner. and called him about IL.
told him he was liar. and that Demp-
sey was the gamesJ little man that
ever stepped IN a ring. and wouldn't
quit IL he got cut TO pieces. but Carroll
didn't say anything. | got mad then,
and told him ] was going to finish that
butchery up. You see all this time Ia
been waiting for lack 10 Law down.
had been looking for that yellow streak
and every now and then Ia droD the
poor little man and look over at the
referee and say:
tits my fight. amt It,"
And he'd nod at me.
Jack was counted out several times
and each time Ia look over at the
referee and say ii again. and he'd look
hack and nod, but the tight went on.
Well. after ! rot mad at CAROLS
crooked steer 1 went out afJe~ poor
Jack and made un my mind that il was
a shame To handle a white man that
way. and I figured we'd both heeu nut
up aga inst "A wrong steer somehow. and
7 finally dropped him for good Ii was
the only thing 1 could DO to put an end
20 such a farce.
When I went looking for Carroll he
couldn't be found. I didn't see him all
that night. and in the morning I found
ne had taken the purse, and taken il
70 the bank. where he'd put S6.0u0 To my
credit, and the same amount 10 his
own Then he went OF again. It was
a queer game. because everything had
TO come out Of nv end OF the purse. all
the training EXPENSES. aud $" forth
while Carrolls was velvet, and he had
Il oil to the good.
Even then I didn't go back on him
because I don't Quit an old ral that
way. An OFFER was made 10 me TO go
ont under the mana cement Of Otto
Flotow. end I was 80 Get S1.0 2 week
for myself 7 STAYED It of and insist
ed that ia have 10 have Carroll along
and he'd have 10 eet $500 for his bit
too hut they cou'dn't see it, that way
and I found ont afterwar1 thar they
wanted to split "a arart 4 LOT of f0lks
went 10 him and told him a bunch ~
lies about what I'd said ahout him end
then came back 10 me and told me what
he'd said about me but never nav
arv attention 30 that sort of thing. and
7 laughed al them,
He believed them. thangh, and the
NEXT thing beard from him was q tel
egrau one of the h0vs showed me from
sor,ewhere uu uear 'F~iSco. in which he
said he was on his wav. was throush
with me. and IVES glad Of Il. That end
ed that. and 7 don't know that J was
sorry hecause thet was surely q dirtv
trick he nut Nv on Doo" Jack
went round Ia SEQ the tutle man
afterwards. and 7 tell YOU ne was