Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-26
SHORT FIGHT ADVANTAGE
TO DEMPSEY, HE BELIEVES
Corbctt Declares That Willard Is
Slow Starter, While Challenger Is
Fast and Aggressive.
TWELVE ROUNDS NOT ENOUGH
To Retain His Grown Kansas Whirl-
wind Must Start ut Fast Cnp 10
Outpoint or Floor Opponent IN
Time Allotted.
-, JAMES ,. coRpETT.

ny JAMES J. CORBETr.
Twelve rounds TO decision s On
tirely TOO short Il route for hou
which involves tho hcHNywe icht cham
pionship OF the world u is 100 baG
Tor the sake OF pusilsm, that the clasl
between Jess Willard and Jack pcmp
sey could not go twenty rounds o.
more
Only once since John L. sullivan
time has a championship changed
hands in less than twelve rounds.
10 win from tho mighty Bost"nisn
Fitz took the championship from m,
in fourteen rounds. and then lost Il e
Jehries in the eleventh. Marvin iiart
Won tho technical championship IRON
JACK Root only after twenty rounds
and II took Tommy Burns that long
W 10 SSs R iar} T4Sm Jse ohnsSi
took fifteen to send Jotfries down foi
the long count. willard had to travo
tw"eniN- SIN rounds before he could
Willard, 1t would seem. has taken
decidedly the worst OF i, in asrccimg
10 risk ms crown in a twclvo-romnder
&c Is not"rloUs.y SLOW starter. while
dempsey Is AN aggressive. furious
tiehter-just the type tina, can so ten
10 twelve rounds at top speed and
session. Ana because the decision n;
a hsht Is determined largely by aggres-
landed a shor; Ugh; seems to favor
w lizard slow In Surfing
IN a or his important bouts Tho
giant kanSan never has hcon ,,da
5uI Speed until eight or ton round 6
n ng% HS vt. i@NGhl 1t was 50 in his
utNt Win McMahon. with smith Nor
rs Johnson and Moran And cer;.ipi,.
w l.ard being some Years Older nnn.
~! nt even a little slower than no
thnsa b t.t years when ne mingled in
Dempsey probably has known No
methods H., qua! IN hurricane
81 ne first gong and he never ,e s 'nIS
re hur!S himself, with both 6s,. az.
6S a * W "Sim VEL aimed lie has dr!yonn
rs ana by the sheer f,.ry ~ L;s men N
W., mas swept upon them SO "a, 49, '., Is;
b, NV suSM dynamo force tina, IN, TT.,u
defense "y zoe 10 put up an adeuuaic
harm. ""Sh or Sidestep from
WY, Wiliard has stopped MANY rys,o
he s,nn ,WSoAoertui jabbine. But ear,
= score of others have tr3nL iPso!
= dempsey appeals ss GU
~ a.. ne tears in. But he ;s',Es
is.,o vs no real guard; he seems ~
,.Um 5 ms speed and his ronst.,,,
n nrmnseE An Elusive Fighter.
VIZ ie5 Is an elusive lndividu,l
ShJ,, .teE' up and down, and with nod :.
shlhnE almost every second 'ouH
t."le' dempsey is never still Ava =.
- " rather hard thing for Am onpon.
anL :" n!t hGhter who is twisting
an, ,mrninS ccasolcssly
II willard can't knock ON, Do,,,.o,.
MINI twelve rounds. he must s,I,rn
points 10 gain the decision OF, al vo,..
~ Eei /" Graw TO mass points he
MuSt ilt Dempsey frequently in ,hos
twelve rounds. hit him far of,.i.,
hafder nan tho lightning like ANA 49,
, Wi,g pHhrh,n@ Dempsey hits MIN. If
', W I..'HN hahts aficl his usual fashion.
SOW -noviuS aud lacking in arcrne
siieness for eight rounds or ~
nndl four rounds may prove too shnr,
INC i"r him a. overcome Demnsay's
ca .esd on points.
Am"iher ih'nS that counts heavily.
"Ed'lS' " lizard N so short a nrnt Is
ms Inactivity through the Years III.
mas ioIGn; hut once since l9l5-one
." minute hn't!e in more than fou,.
Years tie has trained off i'm ,ha,
ume ana must Zone bach INA, ~ - /.
poSS iblc. "
Rig Handicap to Overcome.
',Ht we nls handicap Of inactivity
ina' an idle tighter soon loses his
OF tiWln= his punches: BAKING win
sparrinG rartnors.. -w..l holm Willard
10 recover his oue-iimc skill in those
~,iN,Sions al nuciism Eut unless
W !iidId docs The unexpected il vii
We or seven rounds at least be-
tore 10 can punch with old time pre-
lion ma then 10 may he too laic.
'emnScNs case i q dlrcc; contrast.
re h7S hcon lighting frequently 70.
lW' \'@Is Einf activity has sharpen
Cd his vision and constant punching
mas enabled him To develop WALTON
ing "a perfection Rarely doc Dcmn-
ssH lnlSs vital "alIop ], is only
necesSary for ono To look at his record
TO ilAa 'he ilntu IN this. Dempsey has
ruSn"H lu at foe. lee, loos.. "A loft
or f!Eht foi!owcd with The alter