Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-06-30
JESS AND JACK WILL KILL
EACH OTHER IN 30 SECONDS
sporting Editor From Mars Pays Visit Toledo Camps and
Gets Couple of Ears Full of "Hop From, the "E.perts
BY GRANTLAND RICE

should know if anybody in the world
ever could.
When we saw him four hours later
he was pale and wan. with haunted,
detected look about the eyes and n
nervous CULVER running up and down
his frame. lis pulse was feeble, but
fast. There was an air of uncertainty
in every move he made. Then he
started in to spill his woe.
First of ALL" he said, II spent two
hours with the writer's, boxers and
trainers who are supporting Dempsey.
The opinions and the facts they gave
me are as follows:
" Dempsey will stop this big stiff
inside of six rounds. Why! We'll tell
YOU. He met Lcvinsky, who is far
cleverer than Willard, and murdered
him. He tackled Carl Morris, who was
as big and as tough as Willard is, and
killed him in a round. He then tackled
Fred Fulton. Who is Fulton? Well.
Fulton stopped Frank Moran in three
rounds after Moran had carried Will
lard for ten rounds without trouble.
This doesn't make Fulton look
much worse than Willard. What did
Dempsey do to Fulton? He ripped the
gray soul out Of him in fourteen and
three quarter seconds. just as he will
rip the soul out of Willard before this
fight is over. He is thirteen years
younger than Willard, three times as
fast, in far better condition, harder to
hit, with every bit as hard punch He
is natural fighter against an artificial
10 10 ol I'll
was when he whipped Jeffries. and
bigger man than Sullivan, Fitzsimmons
and Corbett in their prime. He is a
rushing, rip tearing son of a-gun, with
n killing punch in either paw and the
heart of a tiger to take him on.
Then" he continued. II visited the
Willard delegation, although convinced
that any further quest was n waste If
time, This is what I got from some of
the smartest people here: willard will
XII this fellow inside of five rounds
ms superman chatter is no bunk. lie
IS NIFTY pounds heavier than the ayer-
age weight of all the champions who
have gone before him, and he ;s civ
inches taller. He is in better cordi.ia,,
than he was when he fought NInran
ten pounds lighter, faster and q hattn,
boxer. ''ei
Left and Right
lie has left that will check
Dempsey at long range, and if Jock
gets by this left he will run into n
right hook that will tear his head off
No man will ever beat him down hv
tearing into that steel plated stomach
and no mere six footer is ever going to
reach that rolling, shifting jaw that is
well out of range.
| willard is more in earnest todav
than he ever was before. He NAV nor
like fighting, but he likes the cash that
goes with championship. Johnson .
hard and clever hitter, couldn't evan
check him. Moran, good, game ex :
perienced slugger, couldn't even bother
him. He knows how to block and he
can outhit any living man.
'Dempsey's rushing, open stvle was
built for him to beat. When Demnsev
tears in and lands one or two punisb :
ing blows, big brown leather covered
fist is going to catch him on the neck
or jaw, and the only work left for
the judges will be TO help lift Dempsey
back into the ring. Dempsey's good
But he never saw the day he could
spot this fellow fifty pounds in weight
and six inches in height and reach
Nothing to it, not thing"
What the Martian wirelessed bacl
was this:
after visiting both camps and hear
ing from both sides, my prediction Il
that they will kill each other inside
thirty seconds. Either that or 10
of people here are crazy or full o
coke