The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-24

not by way Of William Harrison direct"
ly,, but through his brother Bernard
Bernard Dempsey became q fighter
long before William Harrison. He took
the name Of Jack because the shade OF
the "Nonpareil" would have been
mighty uneasy had a Dempsey orawled
through the ropes and been introduced
as Bernard.
Still Another Jack.
There was another Jack Dempsey
around Colorado in those days. He IL
still there, for that matter, being the
night fireman of one Of the most i'm
posing buildings in the city OF Pueblo.
He vas tough old lightweight, con-
temporaneous more or less with MS
fellow townsman, the redoubtable Jim
Flynn, and plenty old, even then. He
two rounds, whsn Corbett was q COM
ing youngster. and he outboxed Abe
Attell, then fresh from the preliminary
ranks, in a 20-round bout.
1t figures in AttelPs record as. q
draw. The referee was Q tall, ganghnk
fellow, known rs Hi Henry" and at
the close Of what had been a slashinR
battle-this was In Pueblo-he gave the
decision to Dempsey. Which was fair
enough.
Into the ring rushed Jack McRenna-
who had just picked UP Attell n was
getting Abraham started on the career
that was to make him featherweight
champion Of the world, Jacks been
dead some years now, and he wasn't
any too hale and hearty then, hui all
of the older set of fistio followers Will
recall what a rude and ruthless Eentls~
He was OF New York's east side,
and had gone West for his health. The
White Death had marked him for its
own. But weakened and worn to a
sinister choking shadow, and hawking
sind splitting, and gaspinB for every
other breath, McKenna remained Q
formidable character all the days OF
his life.
oious clutch, and burhled angry words
in the startled Puebloan's ear, Hi
reversed his decision, scarcely, realixing
what he was doing, but probably figur-
ing this furious New Yorker knew more
about 1t than he, so Abraham got q
draw,
THAT Reminds Me-"
All this Is depression from William
Harrison Dempsey, Of course, but
cannot resist telling you another yarn
about Jack Mekenna, which was told
to mo by Abe Attell himself not. 80
very long age, 1t shows you what
mention OF a name will do to a racon-
teur, "The REMINDS me- elc,
Jack ruled his fighters with what
you might call an iron hand, and Ahra-
ham doesn't mind saying that the fear
of the hereafter was In his heart as
long as he was under Jacks manage.
ment. McKenna did not believe that
any match was too tough for Abe,
and ho had the spidery a Francisco
boy fighting some mighty rough parties
In his early days,
and after a fight" says Abe, Jack
would get our money and bring 1t up
to the room and divide It into w piles
OH the bed. There would be one prettX
good-siEed pile and one not so big. Then
he would say to me: Abe, which pile
do you want7'
well, something always told me to
take the little pile, but ore night when
there was more money than usual and
he says to me! Abe, which pile do
you want2' l reached out toward the
big pile and says, kind O. offhand like
Why, I guess I'll take this pile here;
you remember that old cane JACK
used to earry7 That loaded thing with
the steel rod run through It? Well
Jack swings this cane around my head
sort O. careless as ] reached and he
says to me; Jew, WHICH pile do you
want?'
$50 Of course / took tho little pils,"
says Abraham Attell.
Copyright, 1919, by Damon Runyon.)
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