The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-03
BY TAD.


TOLEDO, Ohio, July 3.-The edi-
tor has asked me to pick winner
in the big fight and tell the custom
ers why / picked him.
Well, III write as though ! were
writing to my betting commissioner.
Joe Smellen. Here goes:
Dear Joe-Put the old bank roll on
Dempsey. We may be wrong, but
the dope points the other way. No
heavyweight champion that ever
lived was a fighter after he passed
tie thirty-one-year-old mark.
Oldtimers Prove 1t.
Sullivan was thirty-four when he
lost to Corbett and Corbett was
thirty-one when he lost to FitEsim-
mons. We don't know what Fits
age was. but he was quite an old
bird when he lost to Jeftries.
At Reno they dragged Jef back,
and at the age OF thirty-five he tried
to lick johnson. He lost. Mr.. John
son toured the world and at the age
OF thirty-seven he tried to beat Will
lard.
How are you going TO beat the old
father time? A fighter has his time
10 live the same as a race horse or
a hook check-just so far to go.
willard, If he wins, will break all
records. He may win. He is in good
shape. He is a home guy and has
taken good care of himself.
Dempsey is young, though. He is
full OF speed. He wants to be a cham
pion. He was never in better shape.
He is bulldog. He just loves to have
the gloves on. He can't wait for that
bell to ring right now. He will weigh
around 200 pounds when he gets into
the ring, and can hit harder than JEFF
fries, Fitzsimmons or any Of those old
birds. Don't worry about the socEing
thing. Here is a fellow who CAY hit.
Out at his camp they don't expect
him to win in one round, or two. He
may win in that time. but the wise
guys are betting for a longer bout
They think that Jack will look the big
fellow over for a round or two and
then start. He isn't daffy. He won't
tear in from the tap Of the gong. He
never saw Willard in his life, and has
70 give him the up and down.
willard Ii CONFIDENT.
Can willard, who is thirty-seven
years Of age, beat Dempsey. a young
fellow OF twenty-four? It sounds un-
reasonable. or course, Willard is con-
hdent. All champions are. He can't
see Dempsey at all. He can't under
stand why people bet on Dempsey.
like Dempsey and figure him to
win inside Of six rounds.
willard has never met q fighter who
carried the tight to him as this fellow
will
II Gunboat Smith could beat him,
why can't Dempsey? ! think he can.
Hes Not Tough Now.
A tough guy landed in town last
night. He bumped into everybody in
the secor Hotel lobby, made himself
a pest. and finally took a swing az
two or three newspapermen. Yankee
Swartz, OF Philadelphia. who hap.
pened to be in the lobby. told him 10
be a nice guy.
No. oh. no. he couldn't be that nice.
They finally landed out in the street.
Tex ORourke refereed and they went
10 il. At the end OF ten minutes the
tough guy was subdued. He had an
eye that r-ss a pip. You could throw
2 straw hat at il and hang one on X
every shot Today he was sitting
with smoked glasses over in a park.
There was no more fight in him than
there is in a dead COW.
Howard Naylor, OF Texas. stopped
of at Lawrence. Kan, the home II
Jess willard. to get a few bets. he
took everything in town, barocrs,
-rocerynen. etc. and after everything
in town was bet he had S2,sO0. He
cot about half Of what he wanted.