Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1919-07-11
WILLARD QUITS
AT END OF Sd
Jess Refuses to Face Jack at the
Beginning of the Fourth
Stanza.
DEMPSEYIS WORLD CHAMPION
Former Title Ho'der Is Whipped From
the Start-He Never Had a Chance
Was Knocked Down Seven
Times in the First Inning.

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Toledo, O., July 6.-Today Jack
Dempsey is taking bows as the latest
champion of the heavyweight boxing
brigade. He won the championship be-
fore $4,000 spectators.
Jess Willard quit in his corner after
three rounds, during which he was
knocked down seven times and
punched into a bloody mass around
the face. He was whipped from the
jump and never had a chance with the
tremendous and cyclonic Dempsey. All
of the knockdowns occurred in the
opening round.
Willard actually was counted out
once, the last time he went down. But
he was saved by the gong, which rang
a few seconds before Referee Ollie Pc
cord had finished the count. Pecord in
his excitement stepped w to Demp-
sey and lifted his hand in token of vic
tory.
Dempsey rushed back to his corner,
ducked under the ropes and started to
scamper down one of the long aisles.
Jack Kearns, the Dempsey manager,
had entered the ring during the mixup
and heard the timekeeper, Warren
Barbour, shouting that Willard had
not been counted out before the bell
rang. Then there was a mad scramble.
Kearns and a couple Of seconds rushed
down the aisle and brought Dempsey
back.
Willard, who had been punched
dizzy, was sitting in his corner with a
silly smile, and did not know what it
was all about. He answered the bell
mechanically. Then they went ahead
without much to rufie the situation.
Dempsey's long, swinging left hooks
did the business.
First Round.
Jess was the first to lead with a light
left to Dempsey's face. The cham
pion followed with a short choppy
right to head after taking another
left to face. Dempsey shot a left to
body, a fierce mixup followed, with
both punching lefts and rights to head.
Both stood up under the punishment.
Suddenly Dempsey rushed in and
pasted Willard to the chin. He took
the seven count and looked foolish,
and when he got up Dempsey shot an
other right hook to the jaw. Demp-
sey tore after Jess, handing out ter
rife punishment to the champions
chin. Again Willard went down, but
Dempsey never let up in that furious
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crazy. Three more times he Knocked
Willard to the floor, and finally the bell
on the last Touchdown found Willard
sitting on the canvas, silly but not I'M
conscious. 1t was a terrific round for
the champion to cover. Dempsey
thought he had won and Jumped out
of the ring, when De Forest grabbed
him back. Jess right eye was closed
from right-hand hooks and he was in
sad condition. VI
sta Second Round.
The minutes rest helped Willard,
but Dempsey came right back with
the gong, but continued to batter big
Jess numerically with a left hook to
body and right to jaw, with punches
that carried the force of a pile driver.
The champion tried hard to fight
back, but his efforts were feeble. He
had been punished too much. Willard
stood up all Of the second round and
he took punches that would fell an
OK. Dempsey hooked rights and lefts
for body and then for the head, and
when the gong sounded it was most
welcome news to the champion. His
lip was cut and he could not see out
of his right eye at all.
Third Round.
1t was nothing short of murder in
this round, for the ripping, tearing
Dempsey tore into Willard in the most
furious fashion that was ever seen in
n ring. He shot lefts to the body,
rights to the body and rights to the
Jaw. while Willard did the best he
could do to stave off the knockout,
bur it seemed inevitable.
Wizards face was punched to a
pulp. One side of his face on which
those left hooks had landed was swol-
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corner after taking all this punish
ment he almost fell to his knees. The
champion was gone. One more punch
of any sort would have finished him,
and with his face almost completely
covered with blood, his manager, Arch
err, threw the towel into the ring and
a new champion was hailed.