Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-25
WOMEN take UP BOXING
JACK DEMPSEY DECLARES
THEY WILL MAKE GOOD
Ring Champion Believes Tomorrow's
Leading PuEiilSt VIII be Member
of Fair Sex.
BY WINFRED VANDI,si,it

| NEW YORK. July 2i.-Tomorrow'.
champion pugilist will be n woman
With clear. brown eyes lookinl
squarely into my own and hand hold
ing mine in u grip which suggcste,
vention. champion Jack Dempsey told
me this today.
He explained that the womar
| champion pugilist Will be Il develop.
mcnt OF the creature now emerging
| from the crYsalis OF acute fcmininism
| but none The less positive for that
He said:
Women arc bcEinning-as the.
should--to take up boxing seriously
as they take swimming. riding and
other athletics.
I'm getting away from the view
point OF Il generation or two ago
which SAW physical fitness AS UNI
womanly. they are recognizing boxing
as the exercise which, above all 9th.
crs. develops body and mind.
IT is through their own attitude
that the prize lighter has been given
respectable as that OF the banker or
physician"
waited In an antcroom OF the
opcn-air thcatcr where training
The adoring-cycd crowd separated
and drew together in TWO sections as
"A tall. broad -shouldcrcd hoy. clad In
trunks and> shoes. came through the
lane between.
thought OF Il tiger strolling down
jungle path. But his smile was the
greeting OF the boy that he is a
iashinr of white. even teeth and II
glowing OF clear eyes.
His hrs, word concerned the fu-
turc OF one Georges Carpenter.
sp.culaiing upon the trial OF the
frenchman crossing his own. Antici-
n n lon t.tsl III nI
place and swept his words all to-
Gether in Il regular cataract OF
caGcrness:
Just wal, till meet him. lt'd he
tomorrow II / had the say! Jus,
wait"
Attcrward he explained that he
feels he has about reached tho uI-
innate achievement in puGilism and
lie told with delight that University
OF California women now are In
struc;cd in boxing ns part OF their
curriculum.
Theory" he said. that a sound body
and !, sound mind travel together.
There isn't a normal woman in tho
world Who doesn't desire health and
what health stands for. And not
very many women. don't desire ply
steal strength Although IL is one OF
the newest OF womanly qualities. 1t
is becoming one OF the most import
under which women live thcs. days.
Il believe the time Is coming when
every American woman will 80 TO a
gymnasium two or three times each
week TO practise boxing
The home woman VIII go because
the training Will make her a better
hOmc-maker, wife and mother
through physical endurance
The business woman Will go he
cause the training viii give her
strength TO stand ;hc commercial
saN.
And both women Will go because
physical fitness means safety"
He suggested that such training
even may be expected TO create great
er domestic harmony and lower the
divorce rate. II. continued:
II should enable the housewife to
discharge her servants and do her
own work. BESIDES ii should leave
her ut 10 go about with her husband
regardless Of home duties. SO making
her a comprehensive wife.
And after you've considered well
the physical well-bc!nS OF women
which their interest in boxing IS
going TO create. consider also its CT
feet rs a nerve tonic.
What woman is going TO he afraid
20 walk along a dark street II she