Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-06-24
DEMPSEY HAS PUNCHING
POWER ENOUGH TO WIN
Corbett Declares Those Who Believe
Challenger Lacks Strength to Drop
Willard Arc All Wrong.
FoREARMs BIG AND POWERFUL
Jacks Wrists Arc Larger Than Those
OF Champion, and He Has Dcmon-
strated That He Can Hit Hard and
Fast.
BY JAMES J. CoRBErvr.


Dempsey isn't big enough and hasn't
enough punching power to drop Jess
Willard should disabuse their minds of
that belief
pempsey weighs only 100 or so vet
ne has hands that are about as stable
rs me mighty paws of Willard. wrist
that is even thicker and forearms that
are only trine inferior in size to the
ponderous ones of the huge champion
Inc tan Yonngs;rr is something Of
MS lower arms. His measurements
there are those OF a giant His wrists
measure nine inches compared with
eight and one-half for Willard Ana
1t must be remembered that the real
punching power of every ringman
really is generated in the forearm sec
t!on. 1t matters but little how ire
nendous may lie the power in the
upper. arm or in the shoulders. The
cFFu ;hg force comes from the region
Dempsey is certainly Willard's equal.
Challenger Bcttcr ms Punchcr.
Comparative showinEs would indicate
that Dempsey Is Wizards peer as 4
Guncner. Demnsey finished the pom
polished OFF Arthur Pclkcy in about
one minute, knocked out Gunboat
smith in less than taree rounds and
cisco. almost before Charlie had a
chance to frisk around.
Willard couldn't stop any ono OF
Y
round decision from him. Miller held
nm nnii 10 ioHr.round draw and both
route In en-rounders
Or course, II must be explained that
willard met those men while he was
coming. whereas Dempsey stopped most
OF them while at the top of his form
Just the same. facts are facts, and
they show that Dempsey has out
n nSnfns ,n M' liz, IN every meeting
Dempsey is the faster puncher OF
the two. That has been demonstrated
repeatedly Md Dempsey can drop
Yard has relied almost entirely on his
right TO win for him over the Knockout
route.
Jen. May Work Both Fists.
Maybe Jess Will fash two-fisted work
against Dempsey But II he doesn't,
the fact is obvious that Dempsey will
have the advantage in that way merely
because a two-fsted fighter always has
the edge on the man who depends al
most solely on one favoritc blow.
One of the big factors that the Will
defense OF the champion. Nature has
endowed him with stomach and II
jaw that so far have been impervlous
to knockout blows. Almost every
landed hard and often upon the vulncr
able spots, but Jess never even has been
staggered.
But wait until Dempsey clouts him
and a different story will be told" in
sist the followers of Jack Dempsey
Taking puncehs from Frank Moran.
Arthur Pclkey. Jack Johnson. Carl
Morris. Dan DALEY, Tom Mcmahon,
Frank Bauer Louis Fink and Al Will
liams is one thing. Taking them from
Jack Dempsey Is an entirely different
proposition Willard never took on a
real puncher in bis whole career Nor
r!s. Moran and Johnson perhaps were
the best men he fought. Morris was
a joke as hitter, and Moran WASH
an awful lot better. Johnson could init
l7ard and true, but Johnson nit like II
middleweiGht in comparison with
Dempsey.
Hits Like Lightning Flash.
That boy IL punching marvel.
FitZs:mmons WAS wonder. but even
Fitz wasn't quite in Jacks class in
wallopinG power And FitZ was slow
and hit but seldom He's sort OF set
himself for the bacon producer Demp-
s.y. on the other Sand. th!ts with the
spec! OF q lirht..inS. Sash. and he can
put into each OF those drives power
enough to sink "A tughoat"
And b-causc OF that feeling and be-
cause OF the knowledge that nature
has given the o-pound DEMPSEY a
pair OF hands, wrists and forearms
equal in power TO the immense less
Willard. the supporters OF Jack pemp-
sey continue 10 insist:
Before n.Ghtfall of July therc"l
be new heavyweight champion OF the
Goiid.'
All of which causes Jess Willard 20
smile and declare:
We'll, Il that's The way they are
figuring. I reckon That a bad surprise
wiz come 10 many. "-Copyr.ghi, 1912.