Omaha daily bee., 1918-08-18
SHES
At MATCH WITH
JACK DEMPSEY
"After the War" Are Enticing
Words to Jess, Ent'enChed
Behind CornfIelds OF
JayhaWker Slate.
By RINGSIDER.

Jack Dempsey, the LAD they re dill
talking about!
Even away down in Lawrence, Kan,
the heart of the windy state where
they raise wheat and cyclones with
equal alacrity, the sound OF the
smash which sent Fred Fulton floor
ward and out was heard in the land
particularly and specifically by Jess
Willard-he of the championship yes
terday, and now farmer to His Ma
jesty, the American Will to Win the
War.
Jess got down from his cultivator,
took off his broad sunshade, mopped
his brow and listened for second
thud. When it didn't come he knew
that Jack had done what he did, and
began to reconsider coming back into
the glove war.
About the same time he heard also
the sound of Pershing's fighters driv-
ing the Germans out of that pocket
which now is not, and it put an idea
into his head, to-wit:
After the Wra,
"I'll take on this Dempsey boy after
the war is over--not before"
Mayhap too, Jess could see the
writing on the wall which became~in-
delibly visible at the financial returns
of the Dempsey-Fulton fight, and
does not care to lose his farm for
the honor of possible defeat at the
hands of the new battling hero OF
the hour.
Friends of Jess who had heard and
read of the oft-repeated desire OF
Dempsey to take him on for war
benefit got in touch with him after
that fight, and tried to persuade him
that now is the time for all. good
fighters to come to the aid of their
soldier boys, but Jess turned stone
deaf ear, and listened with the other
one to the waving of the cfrn.
whats the use of talking about
big fight at this time" he, asked them.
Didn't we all OF us get enough of that
when Colonel Miller was trying to
put over my match with Fred Fultonf
Don't look to me as if the public was
in the least bit interested in the ring
fighters just now, excepting those in
army camps. Naturally the show in
New Jersey was d frost-just as our
match would have, been had we been
able to go through with it. I could
see the situation a week before Miller
quit. and advised him to get out from
under before spending any more
money"
Admires Dempsey
Then he turned to Dempsey.
"Yes, l know all about Dempsey"
he said. Don't you remember some
time back that l said | admired him,
and since he has made Fulton look so
foolish l am more than ever con-
vinced that he is a great man. Still
I do not consider his performance
against Fulton any better than sew
eral of the others because I never
considered Fulton a real fighter. He
isn't constituted for the game"
So Jess, comfortably intrenched be-
hind glories won, and fixed comfort
ably on his farm and happy in his
hopes of oil, is not thinking of battle
Just now. And there are those who
say he Is not thinking of it any time;
for Dempsey, it looks to them, is not
going to let Jess Willard or anyone
else stand in the way of the cham
pionship tag being put on his mon
iker, and Jess knows it.
One of these voters for eventual
Dempsey supremacy is Jim Corbett.
undoubtedly the brainiest of the big
fighters of yesteryear. "No one can
keep him out Of the lead" says Jim.
Why? Well, because there is no one
good enough" Dempsey, he says, is
the real fighting man, and not freak,
as are Fulton and Willard.
Dempsey Has Everything.
what are Dempsey's assets as a
hghter?" asked Jim, rhetorically.
Everything" he answered emphat-
ically. There isn't any question
about it-hc can do everything that
a fighter should do and do. it all very
we'll indeed. I never have seen this
youngster in a serious battle, but I
have seen him box, and have taken
the trouble to learn a good deal about
him from those in whose judgment
have confidence.
"He is clever in a way, not in
snowy way, but in a mighty effective
one. That is best proved by the fact
that he seldom is hit solidly. Nat
urally, the first thing to be considered
is the question of a mans boxing.
Dempsey is a capable boxer. Next,
consider his hitting. That would
say has been demonstrated satisfac-
torily on every occasion of this young
mans appearance in the ring in the
last year.
There Is question Of physical at
tainments. Look over a good picture
of him and figure out his measure
ments and you will discover thar he
is endowed amply in this respect. He
has sufficient weight for a man of 100
pounds. And his other physical gifts
are satisfactory.
BEST of all, he has the fighting in
stinct. He likes to fight, which same
cannot be said Of the majority of
heavyweights of today. This indi-
Gates to me at the same time that he
is game. You know and know that
a coward does not love a scrap.-in
fact. he turns tail when signs of
trouble brew, and is going the other
way when the storm breaks.
Summing up, Jack is a good box
er, can hit, terrifically, is game, likes
his work, and has the physical and
mental qualifications for the wear and
tear of the game. Can you think OF
anything else he ought to have to
make him real championship mate
riali
"I can't"