New-York tribune., 1919-06-30

Was he right? Well, in chorus with
Won Hindenburg, Ludendorff, Won Mar
witz, the Kaiser and the crown prince.
iii say he was" to use an old Sanskrit
phrase.
The Martian visitor dropped off at
the Sccor Hotel. There, up and down
the long, smoke-flled lobby he saw the
procession file by. Boxing writer's
from the days of Sullivan and Cor
bett on down the winding aisle of
time to Willard and Dempsey, men
who had made an Otto Floto, others
who had come on in later years, Ed
gren, Tad, Goldberg, Runyon, McGee-
nan and others whose judgment was
worthy of respect
An Imposing Array
Mingled with these he saw such vet
eran trainers as William Muldoon.
Pooch Donovan, etc, who have spent
their long careers in conditioning men
1or 10 the various competitions of life.
Then he saw boxers who should know
something of their own game drift by.
Bat Nelson, Frank Moran, Bonnie
Leonard. Jack McAuliffe, young and
old, hghtweghts and heavywcights.
he saw Tom Flanagan, who helped to
look after Johnson's destinies in his
battles with Jeffries and Willard, and
lex O'Rourke. who had helped to train
willard fo~ his johnson fight.
SO our Marian neighbor went forth
to get an earful from this clan who
should know II anybody in the world
ever could.
When we saw him four hours later
ne was pale and wan, with haunted
detected look about the eyes and a
nervous qulver running up and down
ms frame. His pulse was feeble, but
last There was an air of uncertainty
in every move he made. Then he
started in 70 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? Wen tell
you. He met Levinsky, who is far
ctleverer than Willard, and murdered
hlm. He tackled Carl Morris, who was
as b:g and as tough as Willard is. and
killed him in round He then tackled
Fred Fulton. Who is Fulton? Well,
Fulton stopped Frank Moran in three
rounds after Moran had carried Will
lard Tor ten rounds without trouble.
Dempsey-Fulton "Mill'
much worse than Willard What did
Dempsey do to Fulton? He ripped the
gray soul out of him in 11% seconds,
Just as he will rip the soul out of
Willard before this fight is over. He
is thirteen years younger than Will
ara, three times as fast, in far better
condition, harder to hit, with every
bit as hard punch. He is natural
fighter against an artificial one. He
is almost as big as Johnson was when
he whipped Jetfries, and bigger man
than Sullivan, Fits mmons and Cor
bett in their prime. He is a rushing,
rip-tearing son-of-a- gun, with killing
punch in either paw and the heart OF
a tiger to take him on.
willard never met man who
could hit as hard, and Willard is older
than Sullivan or Jeffrics were when
their CORY features struck the resin
as old Doc Time stood by and whis-
pered, "This way out" He has youth.
strength, speed, stamina, courage, con-
fdence, experience and the impetus
OF victorious career. And he is
meeting a man nearly forty years old,
who has loafed through his training
and who never beat young, fast,
hard hitting fighter in his life Who'll
WIN Here's SlOO,OOO left, you bet on
Dempsey at even money Know any
takers p" Here the Martian paused for
breath
"Then,' he continued. T visited the
Willard delegation, although convinced
that any further quest was a waste of
time. This is what | got from some of
the smartest people here: willard will
kill this fellow inside of five rounds.
This superman chatter is no bunk. He
is fifty pounds heavier than the aver
age weight Of all the champions who
have gone before him. and he is six
inches taller. He is in better condition
than he was when he fought Moran,
ten pounds lighter, faster and a better
boxer.
He has n left that will check bemp-
scy at long range, and if Jack gets by
this left he will run into right hook
that will tear his head off. No man
will ever beat him down by tearing into
that steel plated stomach, and no mere
six footer is ever going to reach that
rolling, shifting jaw that is we'll out
of range.
willard is more in earnest TODAY
than he ever was before He may not
like fighting, but he likes the cash that
goes with a championship. Johnson. q
hard and clever hitter, couldn't even