Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1919-07-03
READY FOR THE
BIG FIGHT ON 4TH
WORD FROM TOLEDO is TO THE
EFFECT THAT BOTH MEN
ARE IN FINE CONDITION


Toledo, o.. July 2.-Willard is still
the unknown quantity in the equa-
ton planned for the fistic black
board on the Fourth of July. No
one knows what he can do against
Dempsey. No one knows hoA much
OF Dempsey's ham nering he can
take. But everyone is talking
about 1t. The hotel Hobbies are fill
ed with men talking about it as this
Is being written. They were filled
last night. They will be filed to-
night. In the last forty-eight hours
not nickel's worth of new thought
has been produced. Everything that
can be said has been said over and
over. But the fans are CALAMITY
talking on. They will be edging in
last words as the men touch gloves.
No one questions Dempsey's con-
ditiOn or quality He is admittedly
200 pounds of INT set to explode ON
contact. He could not be in better
condition. The fear that he may 60
stale seems to have passed away.
From now on until the hour of the
scrap he will not do enough work to
tire butterfly. IL he were Will
ards size and height there would
only be one opinion of the outcome
of the battle. Dempsey fights be-
cause he is built that way and WILL
ard for the money there is in 1t. But
Willard tops him by FIVE inches and
forty-five pounds. Willard is 38
years old and Dempsey but "a.
Wizards defense is extremely good
q nd To-
garden gate. Either man can knock
the other galley west IL he finds the
target. The idea that willard In
too big is all bosh. Dempsey could
hurt the Goddess of Liberty IL he
could reach her chin. Also willard
has harvesting wallop in that cold
and damp right hand Of his. II he
can stop Dempsey with the left and
hook that right under his chin-well,
they'll find Dempsey's head out in
the weeds.
That the crowd is bothered is
shown in the betting. This country
is full of money pust now. It drips
with it. Reports from the tracks
are that people bet money in wheel
barrow loads. Stock market opera
income tax. Over in Buffalo a man
lost $4,000 on fighting cock. Ono
crap game in Toledo pulled down
$36, 900 the other night. Yet there
IL almost NO money being bet on the
sun-kissed warriors.
There isn't any Willard money,
that's why" said one man in group
In which this phenomenon was be-
ing discussed.
mo Dempsey money, that's why"
was the retort.
After ten minutes furious CONVEX
sation no one was able to definitely
locate q large area of money favor
ing either side. What little money
Is staked is going up at evens or
thereabouts. Pool rooms charge
from s to 10 percent Of the winning
bet for, holding the money. That
does not sound like sound finance to
the betting men. Their minds are
too badly jelled anyhow.
One man came here after having
bet his money on Dempsey. Now he
has hedged. Another saw Willard
work day before yesterday and laid
on one thousand previously bet ON
the champion.
Hes gone" said he. sadly.
Poor old dub. F1ooey."
Yesterday he saw willard work
again aAd hurried into town to get
more money down on him. He gave
one man $50 for taking q $500 wag-
Ter. Tolprove how completely batty
congress has become, another man Of
equal repute as Judge of fighters
crossed him both days. Two days
ago. this man said that willard was
the most wonderful man Of any age
or weight he had ever seen. Today
he said the champion is gone utterly.