Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-05-31
SLOWS
UP IN WORKOUT.
JESS FAVORITE?
Challenger Looks Small Compared
With Huge BIZ Tate, Color
ed Boxer.
WILLARD PLANS SWITCHED
Scat Sale to Big Fight Totals $780,
OOO-FOur PreIiminaries to
be Staged.


success against Jess Willard July
that he is starting rather rapidly
and that his manager, Jack Kearns
will be wise in laying him up for
spell as soon as the tall Kansan ar
rives. Kearns intends to do thai
very thing, he says.
Unless he goes along carefully
Dempsey is liable to feel like the
race horse they killed off by run
ming him fifteen miles in the dead fC
night before a stake event the nexI
day. It's easy to leave your fight II
the training camp ring, you know.
Dempsey looked pretty small
while smuggling with Tate today, and
the big colored fellow seemed tC
have little difficulty laying on JACK
and making him do a lot of I'M
necessary and futile work in the
embraces. Willard is bigger than
Tate, taller, broader and heavier
and the comparison is certain to be
distinctly noticeable when they get
into the ring and stand up for in
structions from the referee.
Tate Ideal Helper.
Tate surely is an ideal sparr1ng
partner for Dempsey. 1t would De
impossible to search the country
and find a man who comes as close
to duplicating Willard in dimen-
sions as does big Bill. This means
that Jack will not feel like little
boy gazing at his first mountain
when he tits his chin to look Jess
in the eye. He will not feel strange
1 in the clinches, either, though the
Willard grasp may be somewhat
ruder than that ia sparring part
rner who is being paid by the man
he is boxing.
Somehow or other the talk here
IS switching to Willard. The closer
Jess get to the scene the more Will
lard supporters bob up with more
talk about Jack being too small to
do anything with the biggest sbox-
ing champion the glove sport even
saw or probably ever will see. By
the time Willard unlimbers from
the pullman here he will have all
Ohio by the ears and everybody will
be plying poor little Dempsey
Jess to be FaVOrite.
IT. a funny old game and the'pub-
lie is just as tickle as ever. With
Dempsey first on the ground, look
ing fit to fight right then, and Jess
in California posing for the pic
lures, it was simply a question OF
enticing Willard to come to Toledo
so that Jack could paste him a
couple and switch the crown This
dark brow. In a few days matters
have changed entirely. This sudden
upset in opinion has convinced US
that Willard positively will be the
betting favorite in a week or so,
and that those who have been
wagering on Dempsey will regret
their haste.
Ray Archer, Willard's manager,
was about town today decorated
with a broad smile. He radiated
happiness and contentment, all be-
cause Walter Monahan of the Unit
ed States army, who boxed with
Jess for the Johnson fight and on
his circus tours, has secured a fur
Tough and will be here Monday to
help the champion in his workouts
at the Casino club. With Monahan
and Jack HempIe on the job, Arch
er is not worrying about sparring
partners for Jess and really does
not care whether he gets any more
or not Willard probably will insist
on some extras however, in order
not to use his two favorites too
harshly.
Willard Plans Switched.
Archer crossed US all, including
Tex Richard, by deciding that Will
lard should not live on one side of
the Dempsey training camp and
train on the other side. He intended
to do that yesterday, but conclud-
cd that it would be an embarrass-
ing situation all around. Now we
won't have any of those meetings
on the road--whiCh knocks US out of
ii. least one yarn before the scrap.
Jack Kearns had his tent fence
up around the Dempsey camp yes
terday and charged visitors two
bits to see the challenger tug at the
pulleys, batter the bag until he tore
It from its mOoTings and box four
rounds with Tate and Kellar. The
show was worth while, particularly
the two rounds with Tate. Several
hundred people paid their way into
the performance.
Kearns is elated instead of
alarmed at the tale of Wizards low
poundage. Most sharps seem TO
think that the lighter Jess gets the
better he will be. Not so with the
Dempsey pilot. He contends that
the way the weight is falling of
Jess proves that he is an old man
and that the champion would be
much tougher and more formidable
were he high in flesh and with
something of a paunch.
Seat Sale 100000.
Inside, but no official, informa-
ton is that the seat sale has reach
ed the astonishing total of 100000
this early in the game. Richard and
Frank Flournoy were busy all day
sorting out orders for tickets and
scanning demands for press reser-
vations, which are plentiful. To-
ledoans are delighted with the
hea-y advance sale, because the
city is to get Z per cent of the gross.
This means that something like
$4,000 already is assured for the
city's charity fund.
Kearns is still on the hunt for
more sparring partners for Demp-
sey. He would give much to land
Harry willis, but that colored gent
is too proud, claiming he wants to
SIGHT the winner some day-Ke3EHH