Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-28
DEMPSEY LIES
AROUND CAMP;
TALKS OF FIGHT
Challenger Boxes Four Wicked
Rounds With Sparring Mate
and Rests
DEMPSEY READY FOR FIGHT
Italian Chef Handles Jacks Grill
Ted O'DOwd Arrives IN
Dempsey's Work Camp.


sey camp is pitched, are getting the
angoras off the fighter and his
helpers. It's so hot around the
Overland club afternoons that there
is practically nothing doing in the
training line at all.
Dempsey and a couple of his
sparring partners went at it again
this morning with the gloves, while
Manager Jack Kearns was super
intending the erection of a fence
around the ring. Dempsey travel
ed four wicked spells with Tate and
two milder sessions with Terry
Kellar, the latter boxing the second
and fifth spasms to rest up Tate.
The challenger slipped Tate
more than the big colored boy an
ticipated, one right hand uppercut
nearly lifting the assistant off his
feet. Bill was rubbing his chin for
a couple of hours as the result of
that swat.
~DOgs7 Getting Blistered.
Another thing worrying the
Dempsey crowd is that the afore-
mentioned sun turns the white can
vas of the ring into a heated grid
die, and is blistering the feet OF
the sparrers. No matter how much
they dislike this, however, Demp-
sey has made up his mind to get
used to it because the same trou-
BILE may exist in the ring July 4,
when he meets Jess Willard 1t
might be ruinous that day to step
onto a sizzling ring floor with ten
der underpinning.
Kearns realizes that Dempsey
should do all his boxing under the
same condition that probably Will
prevail during the fight, but just
the same thinks Dempsey has plen-
ty of time to become familiar with
the sun from all angles
Dempsey is ready to fight now,
and boxing in the heat of the after
noon sun will pull weight off him.
Kearns considers him light enough
now and for a time will put on
the glove bouts before the dew has
gone in the morning or else in the
cool of the evening.
Mccartney Offers Advice.
Bill Mccartney, who handled
Luther Mccarthy in a number of
open air fights, notably those with
Al PeIzer and Jim Flynn at Yer
non, is a firm believer in having his
athletes accustomed to the sun be-
fore starting them of.
In the Palzer-McCarthy fight
Mccartney astonished the multitude
by choosing the sun corner after
winning the toss. Luther was ac-
customed to the glare before the
bell rang while Al, the first time he
got turned around, was dazzled for
a few seconds, during which he
look a punching.
Willard himself ought to know
something about fighting in the
sun, for he had % rounds of it at
Havana after the training period
was over. What is more to his ad-
vantage, he will not have to worry
about getting too low in poundage.
Jess can spare a few pounds any
day and still feel clipper.
Ad Thatcher has practically de-
cided on training quarters for VIII
lard, picking out a $4,000 cottage
on the bay shore two miles past the
Dempsey camp, which is going to
make it good and tough on the
gents doing the news beat these
sultry days. There will be many
scribe drop chunks of weight be-
fore the long grind is finished.
Dempsey Acquires a Chef.
Mccartney has dug up ap Italian
chef, Nick Albanez, who has been
running a cafe in Columbus, for
Dempsey. AlbaneZ once cooked
for Mccarthy. and beside turning
out the proper sort of yictuals, is
said to be a watchdog around
kitchen. Nobody ever has tamper-
ed with his grub before a battle.
The army, naval and civilian
board of boxing control, with head
quarters in New York City, rather
put a crusher on the opposition to
the fight in a letter circulated here
today and addressed to Edward r.
Wright, executive secretary of the
federated churches, Cleveland.
Here are few interesting extracts
from the letter:
1.-The government of the United
States made boxing an integral
part of the training of soldiers
for war, which resulted in a great
revival of public interest in the
sport For every single person OPP
posed to boxing in Ohio, and in all
other parts Of America, We are
convinced that there are a thou
sand devoted followers of the sport
TO WHO'LL Tie pIOpOScU DdlCH Will
be a source of innocent and pleas
urable entertainment, and we can
not see any reason why it should
be denied them any more than we
can see the justice of their inter
fering with any of the religious
entertainments which you fire.
Quently organize in conjunction
with your churches.
GBehind the Tines
~If you will pardon our saying
SO, your opposition is half a cen
fury behind the times. The coll
ditions which characterized the
prize ring of 80 years ago, and
which were, for the most part, a
cruel exploitation of brute force,
no longer exist, and we consider
that those who are opposing the
match are mourning a grave re-
sponsibility, as such opposition can
only react to the detriment of relig-
ion in the minds of millions of
men who can see no harm in two
opponents of the highest skill in a
given sport engaging in contest
for supremacy.
I'VE have read the rules of the
Toledo boxing commission govern