The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-26
JACK Confident
HE Will BEAT
WILLARD
Dempsey Says Champion Is
Already Probably Figuring
on Losing July A.
BY JACK DEMPSEY.

TOLEDO, O., June 26.-My evenings
in the Overland club and about the
grounds constitute a most pleasant part
Of my training At the end of a hot
day, when a fellow wants to sit down
and look at the water and enjoy him
self 1t certainly Is pleasant for me to
get out on the ~screened-in porch here
and walt until bedtime.
Immediately after the crowd leaves
in the afternoon | go to my room ana
cool off. Then ! take a bath and a
brisk rundown, with Jimmy De For
est and one Of my sparring partners
doing the rubbing. Then it's dinner
time. Immediately after l have eaten
| go out for a long walk, and on re-
turning my greatest relaxation OF the
day comes --.
We either play cards, listen to the
piano and sing with 1t, ! don't play
the piano myself, but several friends Of
mine who are here do and they help
while away the evenings in most pleas
ant ann
| am always In bed by Q o'clock and
always out Of 1t by 6 or ~thereabouts
The days do not pass slowly for me,
because there is nothing to make them
pass slowly. As for worrying over the
approaching bout, | don't believe there
is anything that really can worry me.
| honestly believe there is no man in
the world right now who can reach
my chin with sufficient force to knock
me out, and ! am Just as confident
that | can stop any other man, l
don't mean by this that l am going
into battle with my chin exposed to a
punch, for | believe the knockout spot
Is there all right If hit with sufficient
force, There's a knack In keeping these
things covered as well as there's a
knack in hitting them. | believe ]
have mastered both.
My sparring partners know whether
or not | a take a punch. They go
into the ring with ms every day under
instructions to let me have what they've
got and hold nothing back I'm II
there to do a days workout and II
would be foolish of me to expect not t.
get hit a time or two. So far not 9
punch that has landed on me has hur
me i'll the least, And when | say they
have not hurt me | mean Just that.
When / first went back into s~parrinf
after my eye vas cut there was {
report that | had instructed my spar
ring partners not to use a LETT hand
inasmuch as II was the right brow tina
was gashed. There was nothing TO II
That eye will not be torn open by
punch any soone than any other par
OF my face. 1t is absolutely healed.
Willard Strong, He Admits.
Willard Is a big, strong fellow, Blu
am pretty tough myself and big Jes
will find that he has his hands flu
trying to stop me-, | can't remembe
that he ever did SO much knocking on
In his battles and II took him rs round
to stop poor, sick, aged Jack Johnson
What Is he going to do to a man WI
Is Is years younger than himself, an
strong and activeY
am a lot faster than Jess, Anyon
will grant me that. I'll hit him man
a time while he is making up his min
where to hit me. And ! may hit hir
hard enough to stop the fight befor
Jess expects 1t,
Some time in every champions Hf'
| y he begins wondering whethe
or not he isn't just about ready I
be licked. am wndering II big Jes
Willard isn't thinking about this rigf
now,
MY training work Is speeding UP a
have promised, | am getting a lt
Of action out OF my sparring partner
To-day went six rounds, or rather ftN
and a half, for Bin Tate went dow
from a left to the hin In the secon
round OF our go. Jock Malone, a sma
fast fellow who win help me lots,
here and | expect Billy Miske almo'
any day now.
| Miske wired that he is holding Q
| his arrival because of hotls on his nee
but | certainly wish he would get her
for need the kind Of work he W
. give me. | still have n week OF woi
10 do, though, and Miske will be he
to finish off the details,