The Alaska daily empire., 1919-07-01
JACK DILLON SAYS
 DEMPSEY'S WALLOP
 IS WONDER ALL RIGHT
Declares That Dempseys Open Style of Fighting Is Most Elusive to An Antagonist in the Ring
By JACK DILLON Famous Heavyweight PugiIist, Known as Jack, the Giant Killer"

TOLEDO, Ohio-Never in all my career as ring man have I seen a faster heavyweight than Jack Demp- sey, a harder man to hit or a more terrific puncher for his poundage and | inches.
 Dempsey is something of ring | freak-and certainly a marvel of the pugilistic world
 | took him on here this week in a four-round affair to see what he's got-and he lacks nothing. Prior to climbing into the ring with him l watched him closely, studied that seemingly wide-open style when at tacking, and I said to myself. This fellow is going to be rather easy to hit because he doesn't try to cover. | But when tried to hit Dempsey through everyone of those four
 rounds my only reward was few glancing blows. And I'll wager that those fellows who have followed my ring career will agree that my timing of punches always has been good :; that whenever I shot for target usually hit-and not with any glanc- I ing wallop.
 And yet that was the best I could do with Dempsey, the man without defense"
 Has Elusive Style. Why couldn't I hit him? Simply because Dempsey has the most elusive style I have ever seen or faced in all
 my years as a boxer. That trick Of | his of bobbjng his head from side to side, his shifting, his constant jerk
 ing of his body this way and that baffles
 If there was rhythm in Dempsey s
 shifting it would be comparatively easy to time punches to catch his head and body when they shift. But
 there isn't chance to figure out the
 whrling of that boy. He never moves | the same way twice. He's as full of
 twists as whrling dervisher. | And in these weird movements of
 his every moment of every round he | finds protection for his head and body
 that is infinitely superior to the ste
 reotvned method of covering. Sped i7
 another mighty factor in Dempsey
 favor or defense He is as fast as 2
 whirwind. I never saw Jim Corbett
 in action, the man who is ranked as
 the fastest heavyweight of all time
 but I've seen most of the good onee
 since Corbetts day, and not one of
 them is within a dozen steps of
 Dempsey in agility. He moves faster
 than an ordinary lightweight. | l used to be quite fast, in the opin
 ion of ring experts. And I still retain that speed of mine to a rather notice
 able extent pitted it against Demp
 sey in my workout. and I am frank
 to confess I showed up like a truck horse in comparison to the panther
 Dempsey stepped into me so fast
 couldn't duck his rushes. even though
 toward the end of the bout I was all
 set to do a runaway every time he
 came at me. And now as to Demp
 sey's attacking power:
 | Well, that boy appeals to be as a
 walloping wonder We used 12-ounce
 mitts in our workout and Jack prom
 ised not to put his real power into
 his pounding of me-and he didn't He worked "under wraps" so to speak. Yet those taps" of his, as he called them carried more crush | ing force than any ring man sent into me all during my career. It may be recalled that I fought some | tough boys, too Frank Moran. Charlie Weinert Tom Cowler Porky | Flynn. Billy Miske. GunbOat Smith, l Jim Savage and Al Norton were some who let me have everything they had and with all of their power behind the smashes But none of these punches carried the steam of Demp- sey's taps"
 Those who are of the opinion that Jack Jack Dempsey can't hit hard enough to drop any man if the blow lands in a vital spot are greatly mis taken. He has hands like giant, wrists even larger than Wllard's and a forearm that looks like the mast of a ship. And it is therein the wrist and forearm-that the knockout power really is generated. Powerful Lower Arm. Ntture gave to Jack Dempsey a lower arm that is freakish in it's size and strength. The crushing really explains his amazing knockout rec ord: tells why the delivery of blow | to the jaw or one to the stomach has rendered unconscious men who have never been staggered in the rtn