The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-12-30
Jack kDerllpsey Is Still Hardest
 Hitting Boxer
By Jack Veiock.

New York, Dec. 3o-"If you want my opinion" remarked Leo Flynn, manager of Bill Brennan Jack Dempsey is the hardest hitting heavyweight the ring ever knew and the greatest fighter I ever saw
 When Dempsey goes out against some of the other heavyweights you'll see what a great champion he is and then mebbe for the first time you'll all give Bill Brennan the credit he deserves I think Carpenter will be soft for Dempsey. and if he ever fights Harry Wills I'll have a good sized bet on him to win.
 That's pretty good, isn't it, com ing from the manager of the man he knocked out?''
 Flynn couldn't have said anything more fattering about the worlds heavyweight champion. but he did add that in his opinion Dempsey is not going back.
 Taking it by and large Flynn might have been expected to say just what he did. for the better Dempsey looks the better Brennan looks, everything considered. But Flynn was sincere He believes in Brennan with all his heart and Dempsey, therefore, made a believer out of him.
 The question of Dempsey's condi- tion, which has been the bject of much discussion since the Brennan fight, is still being argued pro and con, butSit will not bes oIved to the satisfaction of the boxing public till thee hampton comes out and shows himself against Willard and Carpen- tier.
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 The writer has opined in previous Dempsey to knock Brennan out in 12 rounds instead oS finishing him earlier Whether or not Dempsey let Brennan stay that long purposely we do not know. Manager. Jack kearns admitted to us after the fight that the length of the bout was good in somer espects'' for Dempsey, but he added that Jack was too finely con- ditioned.
 We have known Dempsey since long before he became champion, and if he was in real condition the night he fought Brennan then our judg ment of what condition should be has been wrong all the tne. Dempsey vouS as a hyped-ua race horse. He trembled as he stood with Brennan while the camera man shot the pair, and he was cold as he sat wait ing in his corner for the battle to start. All he had on in addition to his ring costume was a turkish towel wrapped around his shoulders, and he folded it close around him and shiveTed. He looked about as con1- fortable as a house cat sitting on a Ccthe Gl ICe-
 Noticing all this the writer was not so greatly surprised when the big boy failed to spring from his corner like the tiger he has always been and pro- ceed to annihilate Bill in a few rounds Come to think it over, it took Dempsey about four rounds to get properly warmed up. He was hitting Brennan hard and often in the clinches and he sandwiched in a long shot at times, but his judgment of ct had n kept carrying the fight to him he seemed content to let it be that way. Something Lacking. Dempsey was not afraid of Bren- nan. Having disposed of him in jig time once before, he had no reason to be. But he was not the Dempsey of Maumee Bay nor the Dempsey who knocked Fred Fulton cold in a round at Newark, and there are those who will not be satisfied that he can ever reach the superb form of those , two fights again until he proves it to them.
 The coming battle with Jess Willard will be a rugged test for the cham pion. Willard, they say, will be in real condition the next time they meet, and because he believes, he can stage a comeback he will be, or should be, quite a worthy opponent for Jack. Besides Willard learned something about Dem psey's tigerish style at To- ledo that he won't soon forget and he wll make a different fight the next time.
 It goes without saying that Demp- sey will be in the best of shape for Willard. He will be at the top of his form and he will go out to prove to the world that the bear stories that have been circulating about him are the bunk. Figuring that Willard will compel the champion to extend him. self it ought to be quite a shindig- that St. Patricks day battle to come.
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