Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-28
HUMAN SUBMARINE
KNOCKOUT ARTIST
Jack Dempsey, Who Meets Tommy
Mccarthy Here Monday Night,
Has Wonderful Record.
NATURAL FOR HIM TO FIGHT
Being OF Rowing Disposition, Dcvel-
oped Caye-Mnn Insuct Taking
Care OF Himself.

Jack Dempsey, human subma.
rine, knock artist supreme OF
the /heagyweight division OF present
day pugilists. who meets Tommy
Mccarthy, premier heavyweight OF
the northwest, next Monday night at
Convention hall, is the most scnsa-
tional ringman since the days OF
Stanley Ketchell and Luther Nc
Carly. Al three OF these great ring
stars had to fight for livelihood dur
Ing the early days of their ring work,
then each burst on the pugilistic
horizon In a blaze OF glory by one
ring achievement
Dempsey, like Ketchel and
Luther McCarty, was a follower OF
the road, nomadically inclined
roaming from one place to another
with the idea of taking care OF the
future. 1t was pot luck" with
them, working at every sort Of call
Ing to keep the wolf from the door
In their ramblings they had to fight
frequently to keep from being i'm
posed upon, 30 that gradually fight
ing came to them as a natural course
! of life's events. Their rough and
tumble battles instilled into them
courage that was to eventually
make them famous.
Ketchell used as his stepping stone
to ring fame, the then welterweight
champion, Joe Thomas, OF San Fran
cisco. Ketchell was picked by the
manager of Thomas as soft one
for the reason that he had never
besn fortunate enough to get his
name in the headlines of the big
newspapers for ring work Luther
McCarty and Dempsey stepped into
fame over the PROSTATE body Of
Carl Morris. the giant Oklahoman,
McCartJ was the first man to ever
send big Carl to the mat for the
count, turning the trick Nay 3. 1912.
Dempsey turned the same trick five
and one-half years after McCarty's
flattening OF the Sapulpa giant.
After Carl Morris.
While 1t may seem that the lapse
OF time would make the perform
ance OF McCarty's greater than that
OF Dempsey, such is not the case,
for in those lapsng years Carl Nor
ris had greatly improved as a ring
man and was a real contender for
the championship when he was
knocked over by the slugging, rush
ing, tearing-in Dempsey. There
was but one man between Morris
and tht battle for championship
Fred Fulton. Fulton had refused
TO meet Dempsey, so the manager of
Carl Morris thought to grab off
Fulton's thunder by matching with
Dempsey, meating CD him, then
demanding the match with willard.
This was all very nice in the talk
ing OF II, but when they met at Buff
falo, Dempsey stacked the cards on
the big Oklahoman. knocking him
about the ring so Systematically,
beating him so thoroughly that in
the fifth chapter Morris. after aris-
ing fropbthe canvas dazed, tried foul
tactics, but Dempsey crushed him to
the ring floor again. II was the end
of the big Oklahoman for that, fight.
The Morris alibi for the beating at
buffalo by Dempsey was that he had
been drugged. To this Dempsey re-
piled he had been the one who
drugged him. doing 1t with right
smash TO the Jaw in round one.
The defeat of Morris advanced
Dempsey to the position where the
press and public demanded that Full
ton meet him, the winner to meet
Willard for the heavyweight title.
Willard, after having looked Demp-
sey over in training had pro-
nounced him the best looking pros
pect he had ever looked at and pre-.
dicted for him a brilliant future.
Willard evidently spoke truer than
he knew, for with the defeat of Nor
ris SO thoroughly by Dempsey. came
the quick signing up Of the Willard
Fulton match. The press demanded
that Fulton meet Dempsey. and the
winner meet willard Big Jess knew
he could trounce Fulton, but was
not so certain Of beating Dempsey,
so he Joined with Fulton In smoth-
ering Dempsey out of a chance at
the cham plonship.
Their Plans Failed.
They We're unable 10 get away with
their we'll laid plans for pushing
Dempsey into the discard me pross
Of the country trowned on tho shat.
by treatment given Dempsey and
opened fire on the two sure-thiuR
championship battlers. The result
that so much antagonism was stirred