The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-01

-oIFDo. O.. July i. - Jess
 willard Is a careless cham u nion-careless and reckless. He ,,,,,, be A successful business man. hut aa n champion he Is lacking III ,,,n,, respects and because or ms ne elect to properly train himself ooh s.ilcve he will rulo the heavyweight nus after July Fourth. have been heFe now about three days and in ma neriod I have spent all of my time at tbe training camps of Jack Dempsey and Jess Willard. . Were Jess Willard in condition would say right here ana Wltnol.. . fear oi contradiction that there lsn n man living who would be capaole of knocI,ln9 out the human noun tain. But facts are facts ana one thing Ia certain and that Is that when inc champion hops into the ring on next Friday afternoon he will not be in the condition that he should be. This Is indeed a bad state of affairs but nevertheless have promised my young friend Roger Fcrri, a true version of what l think Of this bout and the truth IS the truth.
 IL is hard for one to get perfect line on either Willard or Dempsey for the reason that they have no one to work with capable of giving either a real test. Dempsey is merely falr second rater who would have easily been beaten by some of the old time heavyweights I have known.
 Now to be frank: In the first place Dempsey doesn't know how to box and in the second place he has no de- fencc which leaves him a mark for a man with a fast and singing punch But Willard is fin no better shape thar Dempsey. As q defensive fighter VII lard, 1 believe, is not as good as his challenger But Dempsey is younger and ambitious and if he can hit witt the force his admirers say he can, h' ought to beat Jess Willard who ap pears to mo to be a slow-thinkinl rrhn. entirely lacking in the tightinl instinct.
 have tried hard to study botf men in the short time that I hav' been here I have chummed around with folks who have been here fo considerable time and I have asked !. them about phases of thls battle tha l myself could not fathom.
 was surprised when I got here t hear the pessimistic remarks of thos who have been here watching the tw battiers in action for the past month These people havc had a grand op portunity of picking out the goo qualities and faults of the boxers. have talked to these and they seen to have gathered the same opinion i their months stay here that I hay c-~-1cd in my three-days in good ol
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 sit down and waste perfectl
 money on telegraph to say tha tLis coming championship contes promises to be the most exciting an biggest fight in the history of boXin is far from what I believe. The money and the number of people wh will attend the affair are concerned This Is going to be the biggest puGil istic venture ever attempted. Its sue cess has been already assured.
 But to say that it is going to | the biggest and best fight is not m opinion. On the contrary. I believ that this affair Is going to be just tn opposite to what the average fan e1 poets look for the fight to en inside of five or six rounds and if doesn't, the last half of the battle wi be about the worst exhibition eve phen in n ring in many years
 Jess Willard, I am forced to belieI after a brief talk with him. is to confident. He values his strengt and natural advantageous over u champion too highly. He is intox cated with optin ism-aud optimis that will be the means of his dowi fall He has done so I am re1iab told by critics and former stars the ring. no roSd work, but has col lined all his work to the ring. H sparring partners and trainers I kn0 are far from being the sort that champion should have engaged Wi lards sparring partners are youtl who know very little about the art boxing. They need money and f that reason permit themselves to made punching bags by the char pion. But while the champion mi loom up like a million dollars again these boys, against Dempsey he W be up against an entirely differe proposition.
 These trainers and sparring par ners arc in the camp to stand all t Faff that Willard hands out. Ina all. Dempsey will be in there dete mined to knock the crown off t champions cranium and I for one | lieve that he will succeed Wh good is height and reach to a m who is in the poor condition that w lard Is? As matter of fact 1t W prove n hindrance 10 him.
 What ever happens in the ring
 Friday. however. will not deprive T Rickard of the great credit to whi he is entitled. Guaranteeing the fgl CTS Tex guaranteed them is not t way the average business man wol do things but Rickard knew what was doing and the best proof there
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