The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-06-19

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I have been anxious to get through
with my Tale Of Two Fists before
Jack Dempsey meets Jess willard at
Toledo on July 4, because Of the pos
sibility that on that occasion my hero's
chin may inadvertently meet up with
n Of Jess big, pony grub-graooers.
The story Of the life OF an owner
Of a chin whieh has met with such mis-
adventure naturally ceases TO be OF an
sorbing interest. II Is worth not more
han a nickel a yard.
SO, then, l am concluding, and In
concluding let me say that that ! nave
had 10 leave out OF this yarn quite q
few OF the most thrilling hobo expert
ences of Jack Dempsey. / have had
Of his n' ring 'i history, for after all, this
is the story Of a p~rizefighter rather
than OF 4 DO.
Someone else can write 'em II Jack
gets 10 be champion, and maybe get q
good price for EN-; how he got In Jan
at Milford, Utah, with ~ others; OF ms
singular adventures with postoffice 0 b
bers in West Virginia when he had gone
down there to visit the old home OF
his people-a jaunt ] have touched upon
not at all: OF a series of unusual hap.
penings in Cincinnati: OF all this, ana
much more, for I have confined my
self mainly to the high spots.
The night Frank Moran and Jack
Dillon fought In Brooklyn, which was
the same night Moran came aboard
with a waistline like an old washer
woman and got a royal American plas,
terlnE from the little giant killer
Dempsey sat on n coal pile opposite
the yard where the men met. He had
aa ~ 49, wAAA hIN was
coldly turned down by the ticket
snatchers. SO he sat on the Goa pile
and listened TO the cheers OF the mutt
tude as Dillon smacked tho big blona
IL was summer and Dempsey wore
an ice cream suit OF clothes; n OF
those very light-colored affairs, Inc
coal pile left its cruel marks all e
his raiment. Somehow Dempsey seems
10 keep remembering that incident and
much might be made OF 1t, But | must
get on and get through. =,
lack went out TO Denver before his
fight with Fulton n hit poor old ar
thur Pelky one good punch, knocking
him for a considerable goal, Arthur,
Luther Mccarthy, one OF the mos
promising heavyweights that had come
along In years. Maybe the reason every
! fellow who met Arthur afterward
Knocked him out so quickly was 10
keep him from killing them. too.
Dempsey saw Fulton in Denver on
that occasion and talked with him,
| Some time later Jack was again In
| Denver, on his way back East from
his second meeting with Willie Nee
han, when he ran into Jess willard
| Kearns was with Dempsey at the time
and Kearns had been writing a lot oil
letters to the newspapers
a match for Dempsey from Willard,
This was not Dempsey's ilrst meet
Ing with the champion, but was the
first TING he had talked with MN 70
any extent. He worked In the same
gymnasium IN Chicago with Willard
when it was thought they would meet
for a war benefit, but their converse
| ton Their was confined largely ia
Hello" !,
Jess isn't much Of a hand to talk
says Jack.
HWeli. here we are again." remarked
| Kearns when they encountered the DIS
KAnsan II Denver. How o a little
fight for MIR. Dempsey herep'
az want to meet the contender, re-
piled Willard cordially,
THE contender" repeated Kearns
who's that?'
willie Meehan,'' answered willard
Didn't he just get n decision over YOU
YES" admitted Kearns, "he did, But
you know how things are out In Cali
"uh-huh," said Jess, but Meehan''
got thst decision"
Well" said Kearns gently. ''dldn'
you fight Gunboat Smith out there