Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-01
ARRANGING ALL THE DETAILS
FOR THE WILLARD-DEMPSEY GO
and TAPPING to Be Put on Inside
Ring Neither Boxer Will Oil Body.
Special Pictures From Airplanes.

TOLEDO. Ohio. July Jess Will
lard and Jack Dempsey will go into
the ring for the heavyweight cham
pionship contest Friday with bare
hands and all bandaging and tapping
will be done in view of the spectators
and seconds of the heavyweight
rivals. This announcement was made
today by Tex Richard. promoter of
the contest. The decision to request
the boxers to bandage their hands
in the ring is regarded as victory
for Willard who protested against
Dempsey's plans to adjust the tape
and bandages on his hands while in
the dressing room.
What amount of tape and bandage
will he used has not been determined.
but Willard said that he would insist
upon a thin layer of cotton surgical
bandages and only enough tape to
hold the bandages in place. Rickard
and the referee, Ollie PecOrd. prob
ably will make decision in this re-
gard tomorrow.
Final arrangements regarding the
details of the big contest were com
pleted at a conference between the
boxers. managers and Richard and
pected of the principals and their
seconding brigade. The boxers Will
wear specially made fveounce gloves
and each will be allowed to have five
the manager or adviser as the case
may be. They will dress for the en-
counter in dressing rooms erected
under the stands and Will enter the
ring from ramps which open within
a few feet of the ring. The toss for
choice of corners will not be made
until the day of the battle.
willard inquired whether Dempsey
intended to grease his body for the
contact no had heard was being
done previous to the daily workouts.
He said that it did not make any
difference to him which way the
challenger appeared provided he knew
in advance and could do likewise.
Dempsey told Richard that he had
never CREASED his body at any time
and had no intention of doing so for
the championship bout. This state
ment cleared the situation and there
will be no amounting the body with
oily matter at any time during the
last few hours before the clash While
this is a favorite stunt of wrestlers.
it is not the usual custom among box
ers. although offering certain advan-
tages in long fight. The oil or
grease. rubbed into the skin until alb
sorbed by the pores. Immediately
comes to the surface again when the
athlete begins to perspire and soon
his body is SO slippery that 1t is I'M
possible to secure firm hold or clinch
in either wrestling or boxing, as the
case may be.
Elaborate preparations are being
made to report the coming contest on
a scale exceeding anything of the kind
at previous ring battles of any weight
championship. The record established
at Reno with the gathering of news
paper writer's and photographers for
the Johnson Jeffries fight will be cas-
lily surpassed here. Noted sport and
specially writers from all parts of the
country and Canada are present or en-
route, and hundreds Of seats have been
reserved in various sections of the
arena for their accomm odation.
There will be more than fifty wires
set up at the ringside to carry the
reports from the scene of the con-
fict to every portion of America and
to cable points for European service.
Special airp1ane service for the pho
tographers has been planned and from
these low flying planes expert camera
men, some of whom served in the
same capacity with the Army abroad.
| will take film after film of the fighters
! In action and the scenes in and
| around the arena. Immediately the
| contest is finished several of these
planes plan nonstop flights to Chi
cago and New York in order that the
| photographs may be available for re-
production in Saturday papers. The
most ambitious proposal. however, is
a scheme to fly with the picture to