Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-29
Fight Followers Expect
July Fourth Contest to
End Inside of IL Rounds
Dempsey With K. O. Record Has Gone Limit in Several
Bouts-Moran and Others Have Withstood At
lacks of Wizards Southpaw-Old Timers Unable
to Pick Probable Winner of Toledo Fight.

shuffling after Jess in a manner
which astonished all beholders.
If Depsey starts any waiting on
July 4th. the crowd is pretty apt to
spur Jess to some action. But if
they both wait-well, | can imagine
they'll scent it back there in New
York before the II rounds are over.
With a decision depending on the
result, however, whether there is a
knockout or not, it is pretty certain
that one or the other will manifest
aggressiveness. That counts in the
summing up.
Moran in Toledo.
Speaking of Frank Moran, as ]
did a few paragraphs back, he ar
rived in Toledo last night. The
Pittsburgh blondy is as blase and
voluble asever, He looks in such
good condition that l was not sur
prised when he whispered to me his
intention of taking a jaunt to gay
Paree before long and firing a
MARY Ann" at Georges Carpenter,
and some of the other lads over
yonder.
I'm not picking the winner of
this one yet" said Frank.
I've got to go out and look the
boys over first. | want to see 'em
sweat Can't tell thing about 'em
until l see 'em sweat"
"GetRich-Quick" John ]. Ryan
had $4,000 on tap at the Body
hotel to bet on Jack Dempsey, and
had permitted the folks to pick off
about $11 900 of it in small chunks.
Each day the former owner of Re-
liable went out to the training
camps, wagged his head in depre-
eating wise over Willard and bowed
approvingly OH nimble Jack.
Masterson Stops Bets.
Then along came Bat Masterson,
burbling boisterous his admiration
of the Pottawatamie COW poker.
John J. listened intently. He re-
called that he and Bat had been at
the ringside together that sweaty
afternoon when Sullivan met Kill
rain and on other occasions of fstic
import too numerous to mention.
Not another nickel of my dough
on this young bird" roared John J.
in alarm.
Having wrought in this manner,
Mr.. Masterson then fixed baleful
orb on the author.
Gas for you," he said, I'm going
to have a conservator appointed to
take charge of your bank roll"
Some Willard money, and much
Willard sentiment, has arrived in
town the past few hours, but the
Willard money is seeking evens.
That's not the logical price.
Willard is the champion. Since
when did champions go to even
money? One Willardite is offering
to lay 500 to $500 that Jess stops
Jack in four rounds, and is willing
to take that figure up to a consid-
cradle amount.
Judges Not Popular.
Reverting back to the possibility
of the fight going the limit, what
jolly old time those two judges and
the referee are going to have sort
ing out decision. If the thing is
at all close it may be established
that the delegates to the peace con-
ference were nice agreeable gen.
tlemen, and easy to get along with
after all.
1t cannot be said that the judges
idea made much of hit with the ifs
tic followers, especially the old
timers. 1t is an experiment. A
fight of this importance is scarcely a
time for experiment.
The Dempsey camp doesn't think
it will be necessary to have more
than a real good accountant in thu
ring to audit the customary 10 sec
onds over Jess. The latter says the
same thing, in a general way. One
side or the other is probably in
error.