The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-25
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s.Sssye on him when lney hI' - view Park, July 4, the peiiet tinu.a to he expressed by form play ar, tbat inc challenger will enter the r,np fin SO much better condition tha" the champion that he will win lnsloe the limit. Jesa yysuard doesn't Ifke to read In l fine nexvspapers that he is fat, 1us it IS the truth that he Is carrying 90 nue weight many doubt his ability 10 get into the ring in condition to succ7 fully defend his title.
 In fact, after looking at both men atripped and going through their daily workouts a betting man would hesitate A long time before getting down on Willard as the champion looks today. Although their Is much talk of to on Willard by men reaching the city from Chicago. New Yprk and other cities, this quickly dies out after, one visit to the fra1n- ing camps.
 Only Tom Jpnes. former manager or willard, talks loud and long about willard being unbeatable. Jones eays yyillar,i.s condition is satisfactory, and ti,sst he will surely beat Dempsey. But aJpnes recently bet s1,400 on WiI- lard. so he said about ten days ago, and perhaps Tom is talking to keep tho odds up that he may lay off some of the money he has wagered.
 Willard does not look like a man who Is going to fight for a title less than two weeks from today. And his laying off yesterday means that he will add a couple of pounds to his weight. If Willard can get Into thai condition so often referred to as "on edges by July 1, some Of the wisese birds that ever prepared an athietel for a contest of brain and Drawn will be fooled.
 or course ft fs possible that c man need not be so firmly trained for a contest of twelve rounds as he would haxe to be for a twenty round bout but all the same condition Is apt to tell the story under the hot sun July 4. And if tho title battle comes down fp n ouesfion of condition Dempsey will win as sure,as the tax man comes around.
 If Willard can do as he has said he will oo, win fin a fcw rounds he will have q hearty laugh at the ex- pense of the dopsters who pick Dempsey to win on form. If he Is knocked off from a fusiIlade of punches at his lardy stomach the fol- lows who pick him to meet this end will swell up and pull the 'I told you SO" stuff.
 Willard is fin deadly earnest when he predicts an easy win He has that supreme confidence in himself that may make him hard to beat He does not look upon Dempsey with contempt for his ability but rather with tolerance. May be he likes Jack down in his heart as the man who has made it possible for him to earn a hundred thousand.
 There is one little point that every one should bear in mind before lay ing any money on the outcome of the scrap, and that is Dempsey will be fighting each day for the remainder of his training. taking punches on the body and jaw from men who know how to hit and who do hit Both Tate and the Jamaica Kid are real fighters and they do not hesitate to wal1op Dempsey at every opportunity Some of the punches they have dropped into Dempsey's jaw have been hard enough to turn him half way around, but not hard enough to prevent him boring in There is no correspond ence school boxing In this birds training as there is in the sessions at Camp Willard
 In view of the present condition of both men it would be a wonderful tribute to Willard. the so-called su- perman, if he can take Dempsey-s punches, for his 'alk that Dempsey will not lay a glove on him is pure rot.
 John J. Ryan, the man who made the amazing champa gne punch that made Jack Dempsey's dinner an ab- solute success, saw Jess box yester- day. Ryan is an owner of horses, fast motor boats, more diamonds than Jim Brady ever saw and a pretty good judge of condition in ma rhf frn Ar to one thing yesterday:
 Jess had gone along about five or six rounds and after a fast spin with Chip, Ryan up and said: I'll bet Jess goes for the water bottle.'' Sure enough the champion did and then Ryan gave some more expert advice Watch him take a swfg. That fellow isn't right I'll bet a case of cham pagne that he won't be able to expsl the water after he has rolled it around his mouth" Jess did just the things that Ryan said he would do.
 That's from lack of tip-top condi- tion- He's got a bale of cotton in his mouth as big as a. push ball." added Ryan He's clogged and fatty clear down to his collar bones. A man isn't right when he acts like that
 "Go over to the Dempsey camp; what do you find there, never a bottle of water" said John J. Ryan, with the air of a man who pretends to know
 Because of Willard's great height he has asked the ring builders to make the top ropes just 4 feet inches Jess must be counting on Dempsey's crowding a bit Jess likes to lean back on the ropes and with his length and great weight 1t is necessary for him to have all tho bracing that the ring laws allow.
 Bill Tate was the first under fire in the Dempsey camp yesterday. As Bill came into the ring, a little shaver, remembering Bfrs sudden exit at the end of Dempsey.s flying fists Mon- day, yelled:
 "Bill where were you yesterday?"
 Bill who can give and take in the Joke department, scored the laugh W4sn he answered- ~Az doan' know, sonny; dey done tole me An wUs out chere-" Tate wasn't handled = roughly yesterday. In fact all the