Indiana daily times., 1920-03-20
LOVE
FOR JACK TURNS
TOBLACK HATE
Dempsey and Manager Enter
Pleas of Not Guilty to
Stacker Charge.
PHOTO DOES THE TRICK

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Maxine Dempsey, a wisp of a
woman-the governments chief wea-
pom in its attempt to brand Jack
Dempsey as a slacker-has seen her
love for Jack turn to hatred, she
said today
Dempsey. worlds heavyweight cham
pion. today pleaded not guilty in Fed
eral Judge Beams court to indictments
charging evasion of the draft and con-
spiracy to eyade the draft. Jdck kearns.
Dempsey's manager. also under indict-
ment for conspiracy in assisting Demp-
sey to evade the draft, made similar
plea.
Trial w8s set for April ? by Judge
Bean. Bonds of $1,000 on each of the
two indictments were furnished by
Dempsey and Kearns.
TOKEN FROM DEMPSEY
FIRED HER HATRED.
Strange to say, token from Demp-
sey was the match that set fire to Max
ines hatred.
Maxine had been playing a piano in
Wells. New. a freight division point of
200 inhabitants, while Jack was posing
for the camera in Los Angeles, before
the admiring gaze of movie queens.
Those who criticise me for telling the
truth about Jack should picture me sit
ting in the town of Wells, neglected,
while Jack got easy money and fame,
she said.
I had assisted Jack while he was a
ham and egg fighter. He lived off my
money Then, when be knew he was
about to whip willard. he divorced me-
STIRRED TO ACTIVITY
BY LEGION'S CHARGES.
Did I get automobiles aud pretty
clothes? MOI I was playing a piano for
the amusement of freight handlers and
miners
Maxine said she did nothing until the
American Legion osts all over the coun-
try began to attack Jacks war record.
"I knew they didn't have the goods on
Jack. and that l did, she said But
didn't do anything Then one day. about
a week after the American Legion got
busy, ! got a package from Los Angeles.
What do you suppose was in that
package? It was Jacks photograph. He
sent it with love Jack was afraid
would testify against him and he
thought he could win me back to him
that easy.
Il sat down and wrote a letter to n
newspaper saying I had the goods on
Jack and that he was a Stacker. That
started things. Jack tried 10 phone me.
Men began to arrive in Wells to see me.
I wouldn't phone Jack and the men had
no luck"
ONCE GAVE HIM
BLACK EYE.
Life as the wife Of a fighter has its
drawbacks, Maxine said. She testified
to Jacks fighting spirit and said that
for days before fight he was sullen and
savage. She explained she had once
blacked Jacks eye herself
1T was after he had a bad fight with
Willie Meehan. Meehan had cut his eye
open. Jack and I were quarreling. He
pushed me. 1 struck at that bad eye
and missed it and hit the other. oh,
what an eye l gave himl"
She paid Jack Kearus the tribute of be-
ing the only man who could handle
Dempsey, and impaired a "hot tip" to
Georges Carpenter. 1t was get" Jack
in the fourth or fifth round. Those are
his bad ones-especially the fourth.
KNOWS ALL ABOUT
THE FLYNN FIGHT"
when they get him filled up with
strychnine and past those rounds, he's
a bad man to beat" she said.
"I know all about the Flynn fight at
Murray, Utah, Feb. 49, 1917" she said.
For days before the fight Jack prac-
ticed Topping before right to the jaw.
He told me after the fight that when
Flynn hit him 1t was 50 light he nearly
forgot to lie down"
Dempsey divorced Maxine Feb. 1, 1910.
They had been married about four years.
Dempsey won the worlds championship
five months and four days after that
Maxine did not hear from him again
directly until after the American legion
attacked his record, she said.