New-York tribune., 1919-02-08
Jack Dempsey
Lost and Woe
Is SportdonI,
X earns Weeps, Boxing
scribes in Agony; Only
II i c k kard Is Calm,
By w. 0. Mcclellan

Lost, Strayed or Stoien--One heavy
weight boxer. Answ ers 10 name
cf Jack Dempsey. Fighting mug.
Knockout wallop, either fin. Hand
some reward. No questions asked.
Finder please return to Jack kearns.
Hotel Caridge, New York City,
Advt.
Button, button. button. who's. got
the button ?" is a problem as simple as
the age of Aunt Eleanor Ann compared
to the whereabouts of Jack Dempsey,
challenger and prospective combatant
for the worlds championship heavy
weight boxing crown now worn by Jess
Willard
Jack Keans doesn't know. And d.
you know who Jack Kearns is? Why,
no less than the manager of this same
demon of the knockout art. the West
ern bcareat who has usurped the fight
ing name of the Nonpareil. Tex Rick
ard doesn't know. Rickard? He's the
easy mark ready to hang up more than
an eighth of million dollars to find
out 5vho is the champion bruiser in n
world just freed from bellgerency.
Did you ever hear tell of guy run
ming away from twenty-seven and a
half thousand sleek, round, shiny dol
lars, little Horace? Neither did We.
Not till we stumbled over the trail of
one Jack Dempsey. The guy who hid
his light under bushel was William
Jennings Bryan st a Madison Square
Garden peace rally i'll comparison
Sad News Falls
We we're all lined up at the Claridge
yesterday afternoon, my son, waiting
for the modern John l.. TO blow in with
something more than merry greeting
when the sad news fell. Ike Dorgau,
the tiredest business man. had uh-
hooked the last fshhook when the un-
welcome news came. Dempsey wasn't
at Long Branch at all, as we had been
led to believe. The nearest he was was
Kansas City. which is some piece away,
cake it from baseball man who is
confronted with having X c. grated
on to the big league circuit.
And the question arises. "Who is this
1sllow kearns?" lie looks all right.
He talks all right. He acts all right.
/ But does a manager who manages a
tighter know in detail the range of his
chattel? We have but to refer you to
Jack kearns. who had Jack Dempsey in
Long Branch, \. j., while he was still
! IN Kansas City, Mo.
However, Tex Rickard is losing little
sleep. Tex never did lose a great deal
of sleeper anything else so far as
that IS concerned. lie is the original
old man of the sea in the promotion
business. If somebody happened 10
drop something into Jack Dempsey
tea 1t would not surprise us a bit if
Rickard would rescue Fred Fulton from
the slime into which he has precipi-
ftf tor -off /.
an invncible heavyweight challenger
And make the people like it, too Rics-
ard was born in the full Of the moesl
with the left hind leg of a graveyard
rabbit, IT'S gift: son. gift.
First thing this fellow Dempsey
knows he'll be ruled out of the league
Leze majesty is nothing in comparison
to making our Mastersons and Sinnots
squander half hour in idle waiting.
And Dempsey never yet has taken the
trouble to correct The Associated
Press, The United Press and the va1i-
GUS other presses (including that of
the wlne) as to the time lie would in
filct his presence on Broadway.
Good Men Inconvenienced
A whole lot of good men have been
inconvenienced. The scattered rem
nant Of the old guard of wine agents
who have escaped the ravages of pro-
hlbition and flu were itching in the
ofing of the Claridge bar. They
couldn't take chance on warm-up
before Jacks merry old nose hove IN
to sight.
They tell US now that Dempsey will
be in for surety on Saturday even
ing at o'clock Well, a fellow who
no more appreciated such a stage sef-
ting as Jack overlooked can come when
he pleases. He overlooks the slush
1,xj1 70 .ot, III lo;
= falls. An old fashioned fellow who
wears suspendcrs, he can take or give
a day or two without missing an5'-
thing. -
Dempsev's behavior has been a trifc
hard on Tex Rickard. The Goliath
of fight promoters has had to lead an
army of erring hounds of the press
around by the hand for day or two.
But be will come out in the end all
right. never fear. He has the happy
faculty. -
Still, if any of you tight bugs happen
to run across determined looking
bruiser who answers to the name Of
Jack and who appears to be lost,
strayed or stolen kindly direct him to
the Claridge Hotel There is youBg
impressario there named Jack Kearns.
He is not worried at al-not none
than if ne had just lost all his friends
; and family.
: Scotty Mcnteith, who discovered and
schooled the veteran Johnny Dundee
into the most formidable challenger
for the lightweight title, has taken
Knockout flggers under his managerial
wing. Eggers is a featherweight vet
eran OF three hundred odd fights,
hundred and more of which he has wcn
by knocking cut rivals. Monteith in7
tends shortly to send his charge after
the title held by Johnny Kilbane. Kill
bane, Joe Lynch and Jimmy Wilde. the
renowned English fyweight, will all be