Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-29
! DAMON RUNYON PREDICTS
M III EASY DEMPSEY VICTORY
Confcsscs Though Inability to Guar.
nntcc Fulfillmcnt of His Prophecy
as TO Outcome.
BASES IT ON pRECEDENTs
Realizes That Unexpected Has Often
Happened From Time of David and
Goliath Meeting Down to Move
Modern and Mildcr Days.
BY II. MON RuNYoN.

BY p.MoN RuNYoN.
TOLEDO. ONO. June 2S.--This is At
once prophecy and confession.
! predict ;hAt Jack Dempsey is to
knock Jess Willard for the proverbial
nine Of hat racks on July 1.
But, gentle reader. confess that
am unable TO guarantee it.
don't really know tina, Mr.. Dcmp-
scy Is going to do AS / predict. and
that's a fact. lie tells me he will, and
the truth seems 10 fairly beam in his
large oN-like or@s.
the lie direc, TO Mir. Dempsey. YOU
know. but making the statement most
emphatic, tells me Mr.. Dempsey Will
not do anything OF the sort, and l
scarcely know which one of them TO
believe.
They hotl talk like honest men.
Eu, | can say this much 10 YOU,
L. R.-if were dead sure OF my pre-
diction turning out as predicted, I'd
go away from this town of Toledo.
Ohio. with enough money 10 make
Jake RUPERT and a lot OF other mil
lionaires sick with envy.
Expects to lie Brokc.
Whereas. in truth and in fact. I'll
probably depart with just sufficient
dough TO pay my taxicab fare from
the Hotel sector to the depot. which
will be Sis under the present rate of
Toledo taxi fares.
IN snort, III guessing, the same az
you, and I'm no, cock sure of my
guess. And II any one else in these
parts is basinG Il prediction as 10 the
result of the big smear on anything
more than a guess he's q better man
that ] am, John McNutt.
take Dempsey 10 win because he is
eleven ., years Younger than Willard on
Wizards own statement. and thirteen
wears younger on my reckoning OF it;
because he is faster; because he is in
better condition. as see it; because
10 c ard and hns nf , l,,
old Jaw of the game that runs against
the Pottawa tonne Behemeth.
figure that last about as impor:
his little day. and then along comes
some young squirt and knocks him
loose from his title. u has always been
that Willard has lived his day He is
due. IT is the law of the game.
upsetting Old precedcnts.
OF course. lot of old prccedents
have been upset lately, what with IL
President of the United states going
abroad and prohibition coming on. and
maybe Jess Will upset another. 1t
would be just like the Kansas son of
a gun TO do something TO make n we'll
regulated prophet look silly.
| have referred 10 this matter of
condition. l do not claim to be a
judge OF condition down TO the fine
canno; tell just by oking at a man,
and watching MIN tuss!e around with
bunch OF sparrine partners, what he
can do in bear fight. / gaze at him
and he either looks good 10 me or he
looks bum TO me. and yet ! cannot
really. be. specific and tell you why he
looks either way to me.
] ss.S Dempsey looks good to me and
] also say Willard doesn't look good
10 nc, still talking about condition:
gents in the lobby of the Hotel Secor
whose view is just the reverse. They
think am cockeycd
t"s Sports Foot Prophets.
a profound study OF the proposition
are contriyed chiefly TO make the pro-
phets look foolish any way have
an idea that If YOU took ali the prog
nostications from the time Goliath
ruled two 10 one favorte over David
and the experts allowed that anybody
who thought Dave had chance was
danH, down 70 our Willard Dempsey
era. sou would find that the prophets
haEe no better than "A 500 average.
!; Which is not bad for the prophets
atSthat when YOU figure the compete
.tion. in the business ansF all that sort
,of ing. = =.
!! Issuppose that back in the old Roman
;dAys:. when the boys would gather at
4 he, Toledo of their time to view the
tGladiAiors in training, there was a lot
fotS\proGnosiicatinS going on. And
atuppose. toe that after bout was all
phyer and come gladiator had been
Hknocked kickins, the Gossips went
y. :Wel!., did you sec what that sap.
,['estus. had IN the Rome Tribunal the
Sher day? He said Iloozis was 4
Ek|hooch. Can YOU ina CINE a guy like
ahat, writing sports" We ought to sic
tNero him"
canno, see how gentleman who
was unable TO handily dispose OF Tom
MeMahon. Gumhoo,s Smith, Carl Nor
riSt Frank Moran ana even old lack
Johnson under twenty-six rounds. can
lick n rp-roarer like Dempsey But
i.suppose u dempsey wins he cham
Ppnsh,p III he hanging around some
DINER torrid town with the rest OF the
lads q few years hence. saying:
GWhere does Dempsey come in to
l it, gu guy , IKE mis- Young Mcsweeglc.
body but poor old Jess Willard. and
Less never could fight q line At best
after being in the show business for
three years ana doing no fighting at
J. That will probably be the way Of IT,
Toledo Real Winner.
co Ihe real real winner of the, impending
OH how no no. This is already quite
apparent After one gets TO trottinc
up me sum total OF what the fstic
CITY on III" Maumcc one can readily
understand why there was no consider
able opposition 10 the battle IN Toledo.
FROM the FIRST OF July on over tho
day OF the fight hotel rates are lifted
10 such height that ! hesitate 10
nent.on the nsure 1t might be an
New York know ono fellow who
Is paying SEA per day for the third
ana fourth for a room that ordinarily
bTings not TO exceed $3.50 per day
This case is perhaps eNccp;jon,l
There viii be plenty Of sleeping ac-
computations elsewhere at more rca l.
sonab!e prices. AS near as | can judc @
the gr!ppinGs" Of the casuals has so
Tar been Isolated. The town has been
hanoIinS the crowd very we'll but, OF
course the main rush will not come
until the day or so before the row.
81 claim this is a right sprirh,ly
3st0wn: There are numerous piaccs
Ss%Here diversion OF one sort or another
EInaSl be had. Ohio Is theoretically dry.
fSpnt I'm all Saharas there must he those
yssSrlat-Sou- Ca II -'cm asiS.es And in
fTE0le0O there is neh,