Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-05

Toledo, Ohio, July 4-By virtue of .i one of the speediest and most one tsided battles which ever decided big fistic event, Jack Dempsey, who may
 now wish to be known by his full l voting name of William Harrison 1 Dempsey, today became the world s
 champion heavyweight boxer.
 l To all intents and purposes he whip ped the huge Jess Willard, favorite in
 the n1eagre betting, in one round | nounced him winner and actually left the ring. But he was called back and the butchery continued for two more rounds until Jess. sitting in his cor ner with a bewiIdered look on his i swollen countenance, failed to respond
 to the gong for the fourth round.
 "It was no use to continue" said the from me in the first round.''
 He sat there apparently the most | surprised man in the United States at
 the moment. His right eye was closed and his right cheek swollen and blue with bruises. Blood covered his body
 and his arms hung so helplessly over | the ropes that it seemed as if child
 might give him further abuse With l out arousing his interest
 Dempsey was breathing hard when the fight ended. but it was from ex- ertion and not from punishment. He escaped almost unhurt, but he had been using his arms like tripham- mers on the anatomy of his opponent, for nine crowded minutes. in a sun
 that sent the thermometer to 110 de
 grees. The challenger knocked the big fel-
 low down five times in the first round
 and had him hanging helplessly on
 the ropes or draped over his own shoulders most of the time when he was not taking advantage of the count.
 The crowd thought the fight was
 over in that round. Willard was down for the fifth time and the count was apparently about to end when the gong sounded It was a modest gong which couldn't make itself heard be- fore so many people. and even Demp- sev didn't get it He crawled through the ropes and was headed out on to the shoulders of screaming fans when the truth was broken to him, and ne was hauled back
 Such fighting as the Kansas ranch man produced was placed on exhlb1- ton at the onset. He had stood in mea asured the attendance, which dis appointed estimates by about fifty per cent, with an appraising eye.
 Dempsey presented contrast. None | of the confidence of his training camp | statements appeared in his bearing. | The mood of the challenger was plain ly thoughtful and more than one ringside gazer whispered: Hes licked right now.
 Dempsey's first effective blows, and the ones which apparently settled Willard's fate, were a right over Jess shoulder to the jaw. left to the body and a right to the jaw. Jess staggered: His eye was closing and he reeled and the challenger, with all the energy of his pulsing youth. began hittlI- him at will.
 The attendance was below expecta- tions. Seats were built for eighty thousand and the estimate was that not r10re than half of these were oc- cupied
 -o.. heat of tho Il ---as terrific i'm it was b, the vast acreage of green lumber. During the prelimi- nary bouts a thermometer exposed as were the spectators and fighters jumped to 120 degrees. It showed 110 degrees when Willard and Dempsey l entered the ring. a
 When Dempsey was proclaimed as t winner the crowd Surged onto the mat n a wild scramble to shake the hand If the new champion. Police even ually dispersed them by hustling Dempsey away. Willard was taken to I Tn automobile and disappeared from I jew.
 While the passing of the heavy I weight championship was one of the ! history. it was lacking entirely in high T ,lass boxing. With the exception of he first three snappy left jabs with which Willard opened the contest, the combat was simply a series of terri ic drives and smashes, virtually all ,y Dempsey.
 The first of these crashing swings to E and on Willards jaw and body ap ,eared to completely daze and take \ way from the title holder all power O either protect himself or fight back $ had been expected by his admirers. B Whether he could have stood up bet E CT under the battering of Dempsey a 1 n ew years ago will always be a ques- ion. It cannot be denied. however, c hat Willard was in good physical ondition and displayed gameness up 0 the moment that his seconds per uaded him to relinquish the cham d. ionship to Dempsey. IT
 This was demonstrated by the fact c, hat the Kansas giant received in nine o minutes of fighting far more punish IT 1ent than did Jeffries at the hands of tf ack Johnson in their fifteen round ce out at Keno and yet was able to re- sl pond 10 the bell had ms seconds been a; alloused enough to send him again hf