The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-10-12
DEMPSEY WILL NOT
FIGHT UNTIL 1920
Lack Of Logical Opponents WIN
Keep Heavyweight Champion
Out of the Ring

out Ol mug
There is not even a fllny chance
Of Jack Dempsey engaging in bout
before mex. year Not by the widest
Streatch Of en- elastic imagination
can any ore picture tie worlds
champion slove-arn I'd. defending
- title before 1920 Is well on its
way across the calendar Talk to
the contrary notwit.ls' anSing Jack
Kearns has no intention Of turning
Dempsey loose in ring in this cohn-
try or any other before this year
has slipped down the hons streatch
and become one of r'a1her Times
also rams.
In the first place there isn't log
zeal opponent doing fstic duty in
The United States Joe Beckett. of
England Is the only mar who would
serve as a drawing card IN a bout
with Jack. and ne would draw simp-
" because there Is l. deal OF curos-
itv hereabout as TO jast how much
ability the English heavyweight
packs in h.r system. He has done
nothing of a nature to warrant the
belief that he would have more than
an OUT slider chance aralrs, the con-
queror Of Jess Willard. In the sec
ond place, Dempsey has started for
tie Southwest to join the Sells-Fio-
10 circus, He has a six weeks date
n gather ae"eral thousand glitter
rig dollars as Snowman. That
viii detaia him until the latter part
/ II November Or eari@ in Dtcsfn Der.
II a match IS in sigh after that, he
VIII need quite a Little, time to train
foi it
Beckett has been the man most
prominently mentioned - the lead
iar contender for tho heavyweight
crown. hut when his reco%c is sour
.fnized notoinc Is found to wax
over h,,ala site auout He stop
ped Eddie McGoortv, but il took
him seventeen rounds TO do II. The
chances are McGoortY wouldn't last
seventeen .ntputes in the same ring
with Dempsey Fred fulton is in
England at this tirse and is clamor-
'ne for j match with Beckett The
TnGiishnlan stolidlv declines the IS
sue Fulton lasted loss than one
round with Dempsey, but II Beckett
bad, has something and would
sreng-hen his claim to chance for
he cham Yaonship let him take on
Fulton. Tho result OF the bout
would give the fans something more
t*ngihle unon which 20 base an
opinion Of 1;eckett's ability. Il Beck
ttt Is there" Fulton should not
prove j stumbling block, If Fulton
Should defeat Beckett. ,hers would
he no loacer ary doubt ar to the
status of Beckett or his facs valsza
in the rucil'stic mart ss#
When lack Dan rsey climbed TO
the heavyweight: throne over the
PROSTATE form of Jess Willard. it
ssas widely predicted there would
be great activity In the ranks Of the
heavyweichts. II wal generally sup
rosed there would he a mad scurry-
fnr 81 managers and promoters TO
discover n me sticks" or elsewhere
Tnfr1e nl11 with o+itk enough TO give
he aewlv crowned King a real
Heht But the threatened activity
has failed TO r1aterilize Instead,
tse lack OF logical opponents has
- c';.use Il Il rem 10 sctffe nps,-essiesefy
itenty Of nix. BIT. verbal ieft iabe
I ard right hooks don't yin titles in
The ring
AZ. this ti-se there is not match
in sight and It LOOKS very much
as If Dempsey viii hibernate in his
throne room for the winter. Tex
] 9iek3rd. who promoted he bout in
Toledo on July last, has been
*yuo5@i as saying Ne IN n4es avarss To
e-~c ginr arother Terupsey Willard
sslust IL willard warts &c try to
come back There is TO demand for
ouch match. As one ma, identi-
I fled with the snort aptly put It:
IT would 70 the essence OF imper-
tinnnce III .,1t II On
1t would be a financial failure be-
4 yond the shadow of the palest
doubt A7J furt ermore, it is
doubtful whether Willard could be
, persuaded ~ risk hiz taw again
/ svc, with the binding glare of
golfa7 dollars in his ewes A DENIM
eey Villar pouf would come vithit
n sylla Bile r. two Of hcing the last
word in ~ in" To put something
, over on TIRE cullibie Public
In N,ort there is such a thing as
/ tsing TOO GOOD. Fer snn1e time
Willie Houoe found him self in that
/ nosi'ion. There was NJ logical
contender for his balk -.ine titles
| Dempsey is IN tho same position.
I He mot and dccisivuly defeated all
! az the best heavvweigh:s while
| pointing for his tight with Willard.
| He defeated them 81 dor isively. in
| fact. that none remain on tho road
| way who appears TO have even a re-
i.r1ote chance against him.
For this roason he cannot he cen
surcd for realizing OH mis- holdings
picking m some easy money-hv
rem aiming in the show business UNI
| III a match looms un.