The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-05
BiU Brennan
 Is No Set Up
 For Dempsey
By JAMES J. CoRBETr

No fighter is whipped until the referee has ruled against him. Jack Dempsey will un- doubtedly keep this truth in mind when he clashes with Bill Brennan in New York on De- cember IA.
 From most angles it looks like rather easy fight for the champion. Brennan was mighty tough citizen a few years ago, and certainly gave Dempsey a hard tussle back In lSlS. Just the same, he was more or ieSs O. a mark for Dempsey in that contest and the 'Utah Mauler" found no difficulty in hitting him. But sending him down for the count was another thing. Dempsey never did accomplish hat. The best he could get out of the light was a victory via the technical knock out rule.
 PUNISHED BRENNAN BADLY
 Dempsey punished Brennan so badly through the fourth and fifth rounds that in the next session of fighting the referee concluded that Brennan night come to injury if the battle was con-
 
 awarded the fight to the terrible punch ing youngster from the west.
 Dempsey has improved consider lbly since that time. He hits straighter, truer and harder He has extra pound age to help him along, and Brennan. according to competent judges, Is not as good a man now as he was then. Just the same. as long, as Brennan holds to his feet he will continue to be
 l Iii. aI,s,r pionship.
 MANY ONE-PUNCH Kos <
 History is replete with incidents where a single punch of dying fighter has turned the tide of battle and won the clash for him. The rec ords are full of one-punch knockouts; of victories achieved at time when it seemed that the ultimate winner was the certain loser Dempsey has shown through three years of warfare that he is nearly impervious to a knockout wallop. But no man is absolutely so. And the fact cannot be denied tfat Brennan carries dynamite" in his right hand. He has knocked over more than 50 opponents in few years-and his right does not seem to have lost any of its power.
 IF BRENNAN LANDS RIGHT
 If Brennan should happen to swing a right with all the drive that he can put into it and land 1t flush upon the chin of the champion. something dire is likely to happen to Dempsey. But single punch of that sort. is about the only danger to the champion. If Bren- nan cannot slip it over. his chance of victory is slight indeed. For sooner or later Dempsey is going to get in close enough to shoot out one of his terrible body punches. And when he does,s it means the beginning of the end for Brennan.
 DEMPSEY SHOULD WIN
 Barring any ring accidents, it should be Dempsey's fight long before half of the scheduled rounds have been rrav- eled. Dempsey has the advantage in speed and hitting power, as well as in boxing ability. He protects himself better than does Brennan. He IS one of the fastest big men that ever lived, and whenever he hits solidly he crushes. Therefore, if Dempsey elects to use his speed from the start he can heave in and out until he gets an open- ing-and then let loose. When his drive goes. whether it is to the chin or to the body. it means disaster for Bren- nan-unless Brennan goes into the ring wearing iron slabs of armo- rIate.
 The fight with Brennan should serve as splendid tuning up" for Dempsey in preparation for his battle with Georges Carpenter. And it should give the New York public its chance see in action the man whom it saw in 1916 and acclaimed "dub"-and who since then has taken rank with the grea .ost fighters that ever lived. n.. BOXING GETTING RAW DEAL IN N. Y. STATE N Is boxing in New York state to be Asnade the plaything of politicians-or is \ to be permitted to stand or fall on its Rn merits? M was the thought of every sport dew 4N in America that boxing was to ..Aat least a fair chance in New York
 when the Walker bill recently