New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Heavy Blows
Cut UpHeinen
And Joe Chip
Big Jess Sets Fast Pace
in Nine Round Work.
out With Four Men
By w. 0. Mcclellan

TOLEDO, June 20.-Jess Willard w,,
overhau!ed by disinterested Chicavo
physician to-day and found to have N.
blood pressure of boy of eivh,s.n
with the pulse beat of placid OK. tn.
figures announced are: Blood nrss'
sure. 124, and pulsation, SO.
This ought to do something toward
stopping the tales that Willard has de-
Perforated greatly physically and that
he has been filling his corrurated ~.
phantine hide with alcohol durinc ~.
long lay-off. 'A'
The blood pressure machine 10 un..
OF mystery than the typewriter ~
ME, but have heard enough blood
pressure conversation from middle.
aged gents who worry about such mat
tiers to know that 124 means that va,
have nothing to make you feel in,er-
ested in tombstones.
The only thing that stops one fror
feeling instantly that Willard ;s
physical marvel is remembering what
, happened at Reno, when Jeffries wss
Delng gone over by the experts. I re-
member one expert who hooked
the blood pressure machine to Biz
Jel1's arms and announced that a n.an
was as old as his arteries. Then he
declared that Jeff was wonderfully ont
fitted as to arteries. The result az
the battle with johnson crossed the ex.
pert's dope.
Jess Physical Freak
Th conference of experts following
the examination agreed that Willard ;s
pnysica! marvel, physical freak. in
TACT. Willard has not lived the life Of
an athlete. He has loafed as much a.
10
when he liked and he has. upon occa-
sion. taken stronger stuff his variopx
autoblographies to the contry nothwith-
standing. His life has been the average
HE OF the ordinary he-man.
with the battle just two weeks o6
wizard seemed bit more frisky than
usual when he stepped over the rones
IN ms practice ring to-day. He gaye
JACK Hempel rough time of it for
three rounds. Then he dropped lack
Heinen over the ropes with a scrap
ping right uppercut to the Jaw. Also
ne loosened a number of Heinens teeth
with the same blow. In addition. les.
cut Joe Chips lips and ruified up Waiter
Monahan quite bit.
dempsey went through little pulley
hauling and sandbag punching, but his
outdoor work was stopped by heavy
transform that blew in from Lake Erie
Dempsey will start boxing again 70.
morrow. The cut over his eve seems
completely healed
Little Joe Chip found it a lot harder
to reach the big fellow to-day and Will
lard discovered at the same time that
Chlp could be reached with straight
LETT. consequently the champion iolted
the middlewcight frequently with that
blow '" '""'
Swap Blows and Grins
Chip did land couple of lefts Ia
Wizards jaw and they were pretty
snappy lefts, too. 1t is instinctive
with Willard to exchange blow for
p!ow and grin for grin. lie has some
o1Hlcuity In restraining this desire
when toxing with the smaller men.
Inc vexed question of the referee
probably will come up again to-mor-
row. 1t IS expected that the armv.
navy and civilian board of boxing con-
troll will have a list of available ref
erees ere IN Richards hands by morning
Inc third man will be selected from
this list. According to the original
art1cles the fighters must agree on the
thlrd man by week from tomorrow
otherwise Rickard will make the selec-
ton.
Rickard admitted to-day for the first
time what the full capacity Of the
arena Will be. 1t will contain seating
room for $4,000 people and the pro-
moter IS about ready to believe that
every seat will be taken. This will
mean a gate somewhat in excess of
81 900, 00O