Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-04
.RUNY0N NAMES DEMPSEY
DAMON COMPARES BOUT
TO MATCH WITH GOLIATH
Citizens From Jess willnrd'x Town Ar
rive and Begin Spreading
Currency.
BY DAMON nUNYON.


rived in manner of speaking at Chap
/ uel.
! You may recall the incident: "And
/ there went out champion out of camp
! of the Philistines. named Goliath, OF
! Gath. whose height was six cubitS, and
q span.
He was. we take it. the willard of
his time and we have no doubt as he
went forth, burdcned with his battle
derby and the swell buster which
weighed 5000 shekels of brass. the lob
by of the Hotel Secor of that period
boiled with excitement AS his follow
ers showed around crying: Even
, money on Goliath. even money on the
big fellow" 1t must have been a day
corresponding in that era to this day
understand from the above that we are
attempting to draw parallel between
the two occasions. Maybe this isn't
the time that the current Goliath is
stacking up against the current David.
Nor would we have YOU infer that we
are depicting Bat. Masterson. and
X. Kid" from the Volney Club, of New
York. rs Phiistines. just because they
are chunking their change in on VIII
lard.
That Was Great Day.
But it must have been n great day.
That's what were trying To set al.
1t must have been an occasion Of tre-
mtndous thrill, indeed, when the old
boy went cianking forth. oawiins at the
aStonished Israelite: Choose YOU
man tor you, and let him come down to
me"
rent Goliath, Is aiding and abettlnS our
imile to no little degree by doing
quite bit OF hoilerinS at this time.
the lsraeiites, though :hey come in on
it. and it is not exactly of the tenor
quoted but II is none the less holler.
>Mr Willard cannot understand why
ho ic mt ho he
the result of his meeting with Mr..
Dempsey. as becomes the champion.
lie has been commenting on this
matter in fretful mood. 1t would APP
pear that it is almost persona affront
10 Mr.. Willard. We can scarcely mag
inc the Goliath OF old, squawking
the critics OF the socoh Sun. and the
Elah enterprise. and the Azekah tri-
bune hadn't stood around for weeks
panning his method of getting ready,
toasting the condition of his legs ana
roasting his embon point.
10th Boxers Collect.
Mr.. Willard would be an easy TO /
had he trained in a manner TO indicate
that he was preparing himself for
real battle instead of producing me
impression, as he wallowed around
with his sparrinE pe.iners, that ne was
merely going through the motions 10
knock OFF those two-bit admissions TO
his training quarters.
/, is said that 5000 people went
have drawn Z, least that many: and
at both camps the price of admission
was often boosted to 80 cents, There
never was a sporting proposition so
thoroughly commercialized. In fact, IL
has been lifted. or lowered, as YOU
please. from the plane OF sport 10 the
level of business.
Betting quotations late this after
noon showed a stronger Willard tone.
He may yet go into the ring slight
favoritc, but ii would not be surpris-
when the men are called together to-
morrow afternoon at $3.50.
At that hour there Will be assem-
bled the biggest crowd ever gathered
in an Enclosure in America 10 see
sporting event since the day the Yale
bowl opened AT New Haven AS ! re-
call il. that crowd numbered just
few hundred less than 10000 people.
Kansas Citizens Arrive.
A delegation Of citizens from Law
renee, kans., Wizards home town, got
in today, letting off the war cry Of the
Rock Chalk-Jay Hawk"
One of them was giving away 81
bills to advertise the town. dollar
Men Behind Boxers.
Jack Kearns, Dempscy's manager:
Jimmy DcForest. his trainer. and
couple of the black men who have been
him tomorrow. With Willard will
probably be only Monohan. Hemple
ana hiii scout, ms SpdrrlnS partners.
In this, as in everything else, Will
lard will probably BE his own boss.
lie will he the sole director of his
corner. We shall know BY this time
tomorrow night just how good his
judgment Is on that point.
And by this time tomorrow night we
shall know, too, whether VIC have
new heavyweight champion 'of tho
world, full panopied in youth. or an
old one rcjuvenatcd and reha bilitatcd
Or whether we will have had just
twelve rounds of nothing in particular.
GuesseS on Dempsey.
That's mental ghost at our con-
temptation OF what's TO be tomorrow
that twelve round idea. Dempsey in
six rounds is the popular pick of the
people who favor the challenger to-
night. Willard by knockout In the
first few rounds. or Willard by decision
" II goes to the twelve is the guess of
the Pottawatomie mans boosters
My guess is Dempsey inside Of six.
Now. take guess and we're all set.
In the immortal words OF the lamentcd
Billy Jordan, Let 'cr go"
And may the hest man win