Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-03
BY JACK CURLEY.

the uppermost subject on his mind:
IF l weren't champion of the world,
they wouldn't notice me-" versus
Jack Dempsey, anxious to shine as
a fstic star and going along un-
noticed and always the uppermost
subject on his mind: "I'll show
them yet and then they will have
to recognize me as the champion.
Men Direct Opposites.
| Jess Willard, who makes training
work torture and Jack Dempsey,
who makes it his pleasure.
| Jess Willard, who loves just one
thing in the wide world, versus Jack
Dempsey, who loves every stray
hound he meets.
There never lived a fighter who
after several years lay-off retained
Judge of distance. And in boxing,
Judge of distance is the all-essential
lasset.
The jockey must be judge of pace,
the wrestler leverage and the boxer
absolutely judge of distance.
If Jess Willard can defeat Jack
Dempsey on July 4th, then every
known rule of How to Live" and
How to Train" must be thrown
into the discard and the dope of the
past must be wrong and new
standard established, or better yet,
the future copied after the mode of
Jess Willard.
Trained at Havana.
Such is the real picture that won
comforts, the sport world and which
helps to figure in the result of the
Willard-Dempsey struggle July 4.
Now you have the picture of the
men entering the ring. Willard will
scowl Dempsey will be all smiles.
| The same picture prevails at train
ing quarters.
Willard fired by future money
making to remove poverty stricken
conditions trained for. the Havana
fight. There he did road work and
reached prime condition. AT Toledo
Willard finds road work wholly un-
necessary. Two of the same part
ners boxed with him at Havana.
Walter Monahan and Jack Hemple.
At Havana neither could give him
a decent workout. Neither could hit
with the proverbial hand full of shot.
1T Toledo Monahan lands quite
loften, and Hemple has dropped the
champion. Is it because the four
additional years here improved
Monahan and Hemple? Not on your
life.
| Against Wizards idleness and
consequent gathering of avoirdu-
|pois we have Jack Dempsey, meet
ing all corners and with one excep-
ton, knocking all of them for a
goal.
Size Only Asset.
Dempsey's knockout list includes
Carl Morris and Fred Fulton. The
first named always was name of
terror to Willard-against Willard,
Morris stuck 10 rounds of uninter-
esting fighting. Against Dempsey,
the locomotive giant from Okla
homa proved joke. In their last
meeting at New Orleans, Morris
feared Dempsey to such an extent,
that he looked for soft spot almost
as soon as he entered the ring. At
Buffalo, the time before, Morris pre-
dicted an easy K. o. victory for
| himself, but Dempsey cleverly and
easily beat that out of him in less
than five rounds.
There is absolutely nothing in
favor of Willard except his size. To
Emy mind this counts as much
against as for him.
Condition will tell. The public
mind that II rounds is not enough
for condition to assert itself is
wrong. A heavyweight not in per-
feet condition will suffer in less than
two rounds and his distress in
creases as the battle continues.
A boxer who can make a fairly
good showing with his partners in
training quarters for 20 rounds, will,
if not in condition show signs of
distress in three rounds of a real
contest.
Willard is Confident.
AS for Wizards training. He
should have worked at least three
months preliminary to two months
of real training.
l mentioned to Willard that he
should have undergone few
months of preliminary training. He
answered, Il did. was doing road
work seven times in Lawrence"
Just think of it! Willard went out
seven times and he called it pre-
liminary training.
Willard boxed Fulton at Roches-
ter, MINI. Willard was the circus,
and not particularly ht But it was
two months after the Havana fight
and Jess was still in fairly good con-
dition. Fulton, soon as the circus
was billed for his home town, start
ed to train with view of possible
meeting with Willard. Therefore,
Fulton was in shape while Willard
knew nothing of the meeting until
the crowd howled to take on the To-
cal man.
The result: Fulton dropped Will
lard, who looked surprised. Tom
Jones called time and Fulton was
placed on the Dugi &C map.
This same Fulton met Dempsey
at" Harrison, N. J.. The result;
dempsey, j. I'd
under Fulton's "g left, let drive
hard left to body, right to jaw,
and Fulton was counted out. Time