The Washington herald., 1919-02-13
JACK is REAL
FIGHTING MAN
Contender for Wizards S
Title Likes Game e-Prefers
to Meet Big Fellows.

New York. Feb. I2-There will be a
great difference in the matter of
height and weight when Champion
Jess Willard and his young challenger.
yack Dempsey. face each other in the
ring on July T. but the difference in
their temperaments will be even great
er. Dempsey Is everything that Will
ard Is not He Is the direct an
tithesis of the champion in nearly
every respect.
Willard is slow to make friends, and
regards every stranger with intense
suspicion. Dempsey greets everyone
with a smile and is your friend before
YOU have finished shaking hands with
him. IL he succeeds in winning the
title he will be a wonderfully popular
champion.
Willard is old, as fighters go. and he
lacks enthusiasm. He gives one the
impression, and, in fact, makes no at
tempt to hide. that he is bored with
the boxing game. Dempsey is boyish-
ly enthusiastic. He is pugnacious in
the extreme. He likes to fight for the
excitement OF the game as well as the
money there is in it.
At first sight Dempsey looks to be
little bigger than middle-weight He
IS so compactly built that one is sur
prised TO find that he really is six
fect one and One-half inches tall. Most
OF his weight is in his chest and
broad shoulders, which are tremen-
dously developed.
Dempsey has the ideal fighting
iace. His jaws are so broad that
ms face is round rather than oval.
His eyes are set well back in his
head. while his mouth is wide and
nrn and equipped with set OF
teeth as even as those displayed in
tooth paste advertisements.
Dempsey's nose is the most strik-
ing feature of his face. II is a
sharp little snub and it gives him
Jaunty. cOcky look. 1t is a real
hGhting nose. such as has been car
ried by all the great rinGmen who
have liked fighting for fghtinE's
sake.
Yesterday while waiting to sign
articles for the bout Dempsey vras
pelted with questions by the news
paper men present. lie had a ready
answer for each. his replies show
ing him to be naturally smart and
intelligent. although without the
advantage OF much schooling, for
Dempsey worked on the farm and
In the mines from his early boy
hood. He succeeded in leaving the
impression that he is wonderfully
confident Of his ability in the rinS.
and yet was not in the least boast
ful
In telling of how EIad he was to
get the match Dempsey said:
\ L certainly was tiCkled to death
10 hear the news. I would have
me on at once if had to walk It
had known that / was wantcL
sign articles. 1 thought my
ger, Jack ECarns. could attend
ht. l thought he must be kid
me when I got the wire from
m that I was needed here to
ogn.
I want to say for all time that
Jack is my one and only manager.
We have a contract that runs for
1--WE years and he is the only one
that can talk for me. / never listen
TO Curley and FlOtO and others who
have been mentioned as having an
interest in me. OF course you know
the trouble that | had with ReisIer.
] broke the contract with him be-
cause ne did not treat me right or
I still would be with him.
= think Tex RiCkard is the greatest
promoter in the world, and l am well
pleased with my share of the purse.
In fact. 7 don't think anything of
the money at all. It's the chance
to fight for the title that appeals
to me. 1 think Willard is doing me
a great favor to fight me, and if
necessary I would have taken the
match for nothing.
How will I fight Willard? Just
the same as I fought the others. 1
always go i'm to win just as quickly
- I know how, the same as though
/ were fighting in the street. There's
nothing to be gained by waiting and
fOoling around. l Just get in there
and fight until something drops.
I don't think Willard's size will
help him to any great extent It's
been my experience that the bigger
they were the easier they were. Those
big fellows fall all over themselves.
they are 50 slow. Fred Fulton and
Carl Morris were the biggest men
I ever met and both went out in the
first round. There was so much of
them I couldn't miss. It's the small
ct fellows who are fast and clever
that give you the most trouble. Any
one ! hit is going 10 drop no matter
how big he is but when YOU can't
hit them just right its a lot harder.
They say I'm not very clever my
self. but. you'll notice that I have
no marks on Ine. Both my ears are
as good as they ever were and
haven't got a scar of any kind. In
my last six fights I have not had
a nosebleed nor a black eye, which
ought to prove that I don't get hit