Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1920-12-21
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lsbNbpsHs NV -W.-- Ana ! am glIi
! Ia know YOU"
This WAS how Jack Dempsey gree
cd me when We met Ia sign articles I,
I fight fur the championship OF IA,
/ world Which was very different from
what | had expected ana was led I,
believe. ] had pictured Dempsey as .
hlg, roaring fellow. with little persona
charm, iniulorant rather not nice, 9
stranger to softncss and what passe.
Tor common courtcrics. | made IN,
pleasant discovery that. outside IA,
ring at least. he IL Just q human. well
ordered. young man. softly spoken. oX
ircmcly pleasant In quiet. reserved
Say, ana altogether opposite Ia what !
had prepared myself Tor At least on
atty occasions. when alone. had seen
him, as represented by the film, IN hi .
'ight with willard. fierce. vicious. ter
rihle. mcrc!lcss, punching into helpless
ic's the b.gg ~ heaviest man | have
Yer seen
That waf the only Dempsey I knew
NTH | met and spoke 10 him but
Few shor, days ago
Ny opponents have been many ani
of a widely different stamp. Bombar.
Her Wells. almost cffeminatc Eil,y
'apkc and Frank Klaus. cruel. with
jeanette, black man. who In his ~
.ure ~ white; Gunhuat Smith. con
cited. reckless ~ speech: joe Beck
H. good, honest. strong, LcVinsl,y
'ith jaw - iron and Immensely cour
igcous-hut never a fighting man lik.
Dempsey. There may1 De the brute IT,
nm | believe there Ii. as there surcl,
IN all 81 MS: hut h. H. not the mon
ter he has been represented tu he
i,nthcr would | say that he has been
misunderstood; fui he has a mind. {,
'uul ana an intense liking for life thai
y not 1T the ring
When We cam" To- attach our sigma
IrHs o. th' cugtra't-thc most Vulnm'
lurs that Las ever concerned two pug,
SITS ut ir made Up of eighteen cruwlrd
l1lius which I, personally. found the NJ
lrst officially IN disgccting aud under.
iaudinel Dempsey had no question,
20 ask. Like myself hc had sickcned
c'luSc ~ the long drawn out ncgotln
Ions. and the match was dcfiniieii
mad" In u few minutes Then Il war
hat hc gripcd mo heartily by the hans
and took me on unc side to chat ahoiu
things far removed from IA, hammer
ng and hutchcring business this figh'
' expected o. tc We did ne; talk On,
word II fight; We were just two ordi
nary business mon with many ideas T.
'wnmon. | do not think. by the wav.
hat We shah meet In the ring bcfor,
he FIRST week oi ucN; July.
Dempsey Looks Boyish.
In appearance Dempsey. who I
eighteen months Younger thar myself
uoks like an unusually big ana strnr
nd was surprised nt his boyishnes, Z. i
nd he has the ways II a boy. SHOULD
NY that hc has NO liking for fuss am
'crcmuny, aud he Il not given Co bolst
NIX and Dragging. There Is nothing nj
he swagTcrcr about Dempsey. and !
Im certain that Ne has been miircpre
ontcd hy the cNaggoratlon which. al
ou often, ,rccps into the baking col
INNS uf his couniry's newspapers
Neither do ! think he Is party 10 tn
humping Uf the hig drum which
bought necessary o. impress upon ilr
World that hc Is the greatest puglis
yer reared hy hts country.
M Srlf.tdycrtiser.
This IL what | would call my per |
icturc uf him. Complexion. dark: face
irrng aud rugged. without heinz
ruial. general physical make up. n
'nsolf easily. there II much spring g.. /
ne walk His face. which although no
Incly chiscllcd. h not like that o.
as YOU would perhaps inmglhy
o. l." from the published photographs
{ him. u ldyrrtisrs trrs.ness and ie
yet when he allows
nile to play about II II IL almost
ind. sympathetic face. Certainly
an arrcsiing and engaging face.
There IL much about Dempsey thai
.ould cause you e. pick him out OF
crowd. H. is ~ obviously powerful |
nj serious and fii-hc II not ~ th,
roadway. So Ear BE- II unspoilcd. y
ealthy. natural man. who. by ready
~ what h. has seen AM
card and Rad, has more than aver
~ Intelligence. lie does not talk =
rcat dial. when d. dues talk h. re
rails the practical. the common sens
ind H. belief ~ himself H. supreme
VI thu sucCrsa he has won IN the hard !
4 schunl q man can pass through JUS
fi"s that belief Any man who cat
IN first place IN the American schoo
fighting must De- conscious ~ his
rentness. and he must he a believer T.
Imn,lf But Dempsey h NO sdver
sor " himrclf. aud when ! left hin
2 swore that We were pals.
\ Noung Man ln . Hurry.
II would never hc dreamed that
cmpscy was highly strung. that he
81 nerves. hut ~ this 7 nm certain
= docs not i'cat himrclf into fldeiti
'ss ~ does Domlariier Wells. neither
be- . man who fumilrs az does Beck
O. but he has that rcstlessncss II
amer this; denotes the highly strung
lie u a young man in
hurry: he must rush and tear: that
hich he einharks upon he must DO
iicklv. and u u this weakness fof
rlicr skciirring ihai has hcighicnoj
~ srnf.icnr' t'a' when W meet