Arizona republican., 1919-05-28
TRepubiican A. p. Leased wirel

TOLEDO, May 27-Bhstering rays of the sun beat down fiercely on Jack Dempsey's training camp today and caused his handlers again to send him through his paces during the cool hours of the morning.
 Trainer de Forest sent Dempsey through his first vigorous workout. The challenger boxed SIX rounds, four fur ious sessions, with Big Bill Tate, and two with Terry Keller, a light heavy weight Keller boxed the second and fifth rounds to give Tate 0 rest. Demp- sey fas on top of Tate from the start and the giant negro received a punch ing that he did not anticipate. One right hand uppercut nearly lifted him off his feet. Jack kerns, manager of Demp sey, plans to gradually switch his pro tege's hours of working, so that he will become hardened to the heat of mid day. Kearns realizes that when Demp- Sey and Willard get into the ring July 1, the day may be burning hot and that Dempsey will be obliged to stand up under the heat
 The army navy and civilian board
 of boxing control, numbering among it's members several governors, army
 and naval officers, and representative citizens today answered the protest of the Federated Churches of Ohio against the match. The letter was ad-
 dressed to Edwin R. Wright, secretary of the organization at Cleveland. The 1 government made boxing an integral part of the training of soldiers for war, which resulted in great revival of the sport" the letter reads in part.
 For every single person opposed 10 l t.fNx America. We are convinced that there are 9 thousand devoted followers of l the sport, to whom the proposed match will be a source of innocent and pleas
 urable entertainment, and We cannot | see any reason why it should be denied
 them any more than we should see the | justice of interfering with any of the
 religious entertainments which you 1 frequently organized in conjunction with your church.
 If you will pardon our saying SO. | your opposition is half a century be- 1 hind the times. We consider that those | who are opposing this match are in ! curing grave responsibility, as such l opposition can only react to the detri-
 nlent of religion in the minds of mil l lions of men who can see no harm in 1 two opponents of the highest skill in ] a given sport, engaging in q contest l for supremacy. We have read the rules i of the Toledo boxing commission, gov 1 erning public contests in that city,
 and we have no hesitation in saying ] that they are a model of what such l contests should be-"
 The letter was signed by Adam Elm | pie, secretary of the board of boxing l control. and it's publication was au- 1 thoriZed tonight.
 Tex Rickard, promoter of the Will 1 lard Dempsey match, received a copy
 of the letter and turned it over to newspaper correspondents. Major 1 General Leonard Wood, commander of 1 the central department of the army, is
 one of the officials of the board l COLUMBUS, ohio, May 27.-What is considered a test vote in the Ohio
 house of representatives today. in | dicates that the bill introduced yester- i day to give Governor Cox authority | to stop the Willard Dempsey match
 at Toledo July f. will fail to pass as
 an emergency measure. It must be passed as such, or it will not become