The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-06-16
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SELF CONFIDENT
Thinks More of Himself Than Any
Man the Ring Has Ever Had
as Champion Without
Exception.
[By H. C. Hamilton, United Press
Staff CnrreSnondent

[By H. c. Hamilton, United Press
Staff Correspondent
TOLEDO, Ohio, June 16.-There is
every Indication here today that Jack
Dempsey would do no more boxing in
preparation for his bout with Jess
Willard, at least until Friday, with
strong possibility that it will be Sat
urday before Trainer DeForrest and
Manager Kearns will permit him to
expose himself to clouts from his
sparring partners.
And In the meantime Jess Willard Is
going silently, ploddingly and consist
emily ahead with his trainSW The
shimmy shivers the big champion has
been showing since he began to train,
is giving way to the frmness OF flesh
which distinguishes his superbly
trained challenger from himself.
Willard is the most self confident
man the ring ever has had for
champion, bar none.
ct know Just what is good for me
and I will train my own way" he said
to me yesterday, during tanning bee.
mo suggestion can alter my way
of doing things. They say my spar
ring partners are no good but l am
satisfied. don't believe / could get
better men. If i could 1 would go
after them There is no reason to
believe / would risk my title just on a
whim regarding a couple or three
sparring partners, is there?'
| less admitted to me that the heat
| here gave him an awful time of it
! when he first took up his training
! camp duties.
/ why, when I first started in here,
Ii thought several times | would faint
In the ring. Seemed like l was stick
ing my head in an oven when / went
under the hot sun. Now that has all
/ passed away. I feel like the sun was
my best friend. You can see that
have been doing lots more work and
that / am able to go at faster pace
1 Tex Rickard, smiling, pointed out
today that Toledo hasn't always been
! cursed by hot weather such as 1t is
now experiencing. He dug up lot
of meteorological charts TO see what
he could find out about the ramifl-
cations of the weather man.
He declared there hasn't been
.JuIv day here. since the weather bu-
reau was established, when the Their
moneter mounted higher than "a.
The heat here now is most oppres-
sive, but older Inhabitants com
bine with Richard in saying that
July is not such a fearfully uncon-
genial month in these parts.
4 The huge ampitheater where the
bout will be held is rapidly nearing
completion. Built on the lines of
that other sport edifice. the Yale
bowl. it is commended for 1t that 1t
will hold a larger crowd on lnde-
pendence day this year than did the
famous New Haven structure on the
occasion of the last Yale1Harvard
football agme, when something like
crowd of 10000 found it's way
through the Yale portals.
Richard is Withholding his antici-
nations of what will be the returZ
for his efforts, but he believes the
greatest crowd that ever witnessed
!, sporting event of any kind in this
4 country will be around
Some old, old chronicler said once
upon time that the circus maxlmus
, held a little powwow reaching some
thing near 100000 fans who wanted
to see some christian blood flow, blu,
; Tex passed this over with grin
when it was suggested, and wanted
to know who could prove 1t.
The two boxers went through their
daily stunts yesterday before the
largest crowd that has yet y1sitee
the camps. And the sun was hot
too
Dempsey went two easy rounds
with Jamaica Kid Jess took on JACK