Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-11
JACK DEMPSEY
SEEKING BOUT
WITH WILLARD
Offers Share of Gate Receipts
to War Funds for Willard
Bout After Win Over
Fulton.
By RINGSIDER.

ri chicago, Aug. ll.-hHu now Couics
lack Dempsey, flushed with the joy
OF twenty-three second-or rather
is.6rst"-victory over Fred Fulton,
looking for something little longer.
He wants bout with Jess Willard.
intentions being to take away that
championship as heavyweight that
Jess Is carrying so happily.
And because he knows that the. only
heavyweight fight America is inter-
ested in at the present moment is that
world championship scrap over
there" Jack has made proposition
which he hopes will overcome the
difficulties-he has pledged his end
of the gate receipts to any war Char
ity that may be decided upon.
Even so, those who have been
watching the writing on the wall
that writing which is,so KALEIDOSCOPE
ically changing things in base oaii,
boxing and other sports s--admit that
Il is practically an assured thing that
The Willard-Dempsey fight will never
be until the referee calls Knockout
hlow in favor Of democracy in the
democracy-autocracy fight now on.
And at that, II the Willard-Demp-
srv engagement is brought about
through the Intervention OF some
army camp which induces jess 10
train and scrap to add a few thou
sands to war aids, it will be friendly
enemy" sort OF thing-at least, as tar
as the "champ" is concerned. he has
1st Il he known that for Dempsey he
has the highest admiration; that ne
believes him "all there" and predict.
"a The Fulton defeat long before "
happened.
Not a False Alarm
And surely the world Will nave 70
admit that ali the rumor about Demp-
scy being false alarm = ruinot'
and nothing else. and that mere 's
lad who may well make a record pe-
fore he gets through. And even ms
enemies are on his admiration list as
the result OF the speed and alacrity
With which he brought the consteila-
f;on of heaven before Fultons unsus-
necting vision in that memorable en-
counter in Harrison, N. ~.
Dempsey. then, is the kind OF
chap America glove fans tall for,-a
ciean-cut. sure hitter, with MT tnat
saws. There's the hoor," and ADDS
.as an aiterthought, Nov you're
there STAY there. An unsually, they
stay, too. , .h,.
There are those who believe that
less. while 6 ood fellow and al
that, is using the war and the dihii
rulties he has encountered because OF
4 a. blind behind which to hide his
perfect Willingness not to hgnt,
8 again. II thatfbe SO, and Willard VIII
not fight al all. Dempsey is pretty
near outJof the fighting game, too
Tor theyes only Miske LETT, and b,lly
himself we believe, would admit what
the answer would be in the event
Dempsey took him on.
So If this is ap obituary, or a sal
utation. let us concede that Dempsey
i i 1919 hundred horsepower hghting
machine. who hits to win and wins
only to hit again. He's battler
from the start OF the gong, with no
make believe" or feinting in his sys-
fem. who likes the game tor the hght
there is in ii and the victory, too--for
him.
Greb Has Wish.
Harry Greb of Pittsburgh and the
United States navy, has had his wish,
and we hope it proves up IN results
as he predicted. He has whipped the
army, in the person Of Eddie Nc
Ioorty, and the result is, he says
he'll make better recruiting man.
'sIt's this way he said recently
every time | win fight il makes me
more popular, and the more popular
! am the more persons there are who
want to be in the organization to
which / belong. Hence go out tor
ali the knockouts ! can get; because
the more men we bring into the
navy, the better for the Big Knock.
out that's to come across the pond.
Here's hoping his well-deserved
victory over McGoorty, who, for his
part, put up good though losing bat
lie. brings in recruits by the score