Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-05
.'R0NRlG BY JESS MOST
/ P!I /! OF ALL CHAMPS
leHke Says Greater Titleholder
i. Ncver Lived Than Jack
Il ~ f Dempsey.
r1ILARD LEAVES ToTTERING
Kansnn Never Landed Hard Blow
on His Opponent During Nine
Minutes OF Battlefield to
i CIinth Often.
by FRANK G. sENKE.

49, tt1 esSItIt-
R.ss yf BY FRANK G.. MENKE.
| STOLEpO. OHIO. July Jack Demp-
| 10y is king OF the pugilistic world to-
tight--and greater champion never
| fyed.
The Utah gladiator, fighting tho most
sensational battle OF his meteoric ca
soer. battered Jess Willard from pow
lrful. notwithstanding human into
~ leeding and awful mass in three
olnas got- lighting.
& 'eys~3ollapsed in his chair, and was
with fits of nausea and seemed
H to lapse into Inconsistencies,
his seconds ended the battle by
ing a, towel into the ring.
Nd by. that token Dempsey rose TO
ii sublime heights in his chosen pro-
FHIllard's showing was the most pitt
s5iaof any champion of all time: Demp-
,isy.s the most remarkable and most
amazing In pugiistic. annals.
Jess Never Landed.
nghting Willard never landed a really
solid blow upon Dempsey And
Through those nine minutes Dempsey
hit Willard with such crushing. ter
.rible force that long before the sec
ond round was over the crowd began
q shrek TO the referee:
stop 1t! Stop it,
The echo of the first gong hardly
rad s. died away before Dempsey
aunched terrible attack that quickly
closed Wizards right eye. smashed
pla cess transformed his whole face into
sa., bleeding, horrible mass. and made
shth: body one splotch OF red.
~ ut wasn't a fight--it was slaughter.
gksThe frst two punches that Dempsey
sanded meant the end for Willard. The
s:hallenger. lodging several tahs OF
u mighty left to the stomach and fol-
Flowed with a flashing right to the
sbody.
Taps DeEnn to BuEIe.
Taps began to bugle then over the
spuEilistic greatness of Jess willard
}ssAt. that irst blow, landed upon the
one time concrete" stomach of the
SKansan, rhe sagged under the impact.
the Jaw that Willard had termed SO
proudly. a concrete" jaw the cham
ipton staggered, and then followed the
most sensational incident ever wit
messed an, the first round of any cham
pionship struggle In all history.
AtWillard, hurt, and realizing IL, tried
3to,-rush into clinch, but Dempsey
with the agility OF panther swept
away and then rushed back against
Wtllard. a left 70 the stomach an
Nillard; Keeling backward. Dempsey
EHr1ed- another richt-hander at the
iEtant. and Jess willard dropped to
Fl the canvas for the first time in his
E& Ions ring career.
sSR2h Down Again Goes Jess.
The referee stood over him and be-
Sl beEan to toll off the count. Willard
fo sl, SIX; and then stumbled to his feet
Il tempted a clinch. But Dempsey was
IA not to be denied Another ripping left
ii went Into Wizards stomach-and down
n met with a. volley of blows tina, sent
u him Observation-Disclosures the ropes
4 cord did not begin count-and
fsCHlfiCG. a ha
Is rules SAY that when a man is helpless
ana hanging on the ropes with his
heels off the fiat Of the ground. he can
aneNconstdered knockdown victim.
zone knew for what. At last Willard.
E sS, fasesa smear Of blood; dragged
S5ai9 into ~another clinch. But Demp-
s1nk to the head. Willard dropped again.
( hmt, dazedly climbed to his feet. and
AetaEgered across the ring. Dempsey
sfollowed and dropped him fifth time
e. Thought Battle Ended.
once npre Willard got up, only to
ss d5o I,"s, BY two acts .!te. the body
And then came the most spectacular
incident that ever took place at a
HI championship battle.
I While the big crowd shricked in de-
liriumJ and while Willard grovcled al
! his feet, Ollie Pecord. the referee. be-
gaI ito toll off the count. He seemed
l
stopped counting and pushed Dempsey
!sback into his corner.
At once pandemonium broke loose
|fSSs, The crowd assuming that Dempsey
had won with q knockout. wen, insane
ainsits actions. II surgcd toward the
ring, and some in the r!ngside divi-
and embrace Dempsey. who was stand
ing in his corner. All the while VIII
lard's seconds were assisting the giant
back TO his corner and trying with
means ~ h.,c
Sem bIance of his old self
Dempsey wins! Dempsey wins"
ehrieked the mob.
But Dempsey hadn't won-not then.
He'll Saves Willard.
For Pecord and some OF the other
S4olks ordered back the crowd that had
to climb through the ropes
ENand almost before the crowd realized
what had happened the fighters walked
to the center OF the ring and began
SSsqnaring away for tho second round
What happened? What happened?"
EMdemanded the crowd.
And then II was announced that
Fecord hadn't quite completed count
Ing out Willard before the he'll rang.
pronounced faulty by Pecord even be-
fore. the battle began and which
fsBounded but family.
1 Dempsey, realizing that he was a
lEcertain winner. played things safely
sthrough.t SECOND round. lie opened
with asrysh at Willard. and smash I'd
q $3.50 WINS biI"S 10 the mead and
4 body just to stun the champion a liz
u tie mors~ One drive sent him Keeling
80 the JSpes; another drove him back
ear toIJcmpsey's corner Then Demn.
a sSy-uekowed up little and merely
Lsplugged away. not aiming so much for
AskS knockout, as to reduce Willard SIN
further to state of absolute weari-
= 49, willard Paws Air.
4 G5And 30 was fought the second round
tJSwtth willard paving occa sionallv al
4 spempsey-and never hitting: with Wi
81 t7ard iwatnly attempting TO clinch his
ff%yay along.
ts Willard looked wrecked when he
3aSne out for the third-and before il
7Hwasf ended he was the most battered
Stchamp!on that the heavyweight diyi-
iHs8ion OF the ring has ever knn,rn