El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-17
I ONDON. Eng Dec. 17.-"And I am
IL glad 10 know you"

I ONDON, Eng Dec 17.-"And am
l. glad 20 know you"
This was how Jack Dempsey
greeted me when we met TO sign
articles TO fight for the championship
Of the world. Which was very differ
ent from what had expected and was
led to believe I had pictured pemp-
sey as a big. roaring fellow with 1T
tel personal charm. intolerant rather
not nice, a stranger TO sottness and
what passes for common courtesies-
made the pleasant discovery that. out
side the ring at least, he is just
human. well ordered young man,
softly spoken. extremely pleasant IN
a quiet. reserved way, and altogether
opposite TO what had prepared my
self FOR. At least on fifty occasions,
when alone. had seen him, as repre-
scented by the film, in his fight with
willard. fierce, vicious, terrible,
merciless. punching into helplessness
the biggest heaviest man have ever
Has Just Net Champ.
That was the only Dempsey I knew
until met and spoke 10 him but q
few short days ago
Ny opponents have been many and
OF a widely different stamp
Bombnrdier Wells, almost e.
femlnufe. Billy Pnpze and Frank
Klaus, cruel, without imagination.
just fighting meuf Jeanette
black man. who in his nature Is
whites Gunboaf Smith, cOnceited,
reckless Of speeehf Joe Beckett,
good, honest. strOnEf Levinslzy.
with Jaw OF iron and Immensely
couraEeous-buf never a fighting
man like Dempsey There may be
the brute in himg believe there
e., NJ there surely f. in all OF uEi
but he a. not the monster he has
been represented to be- Rather
would 7 say that be has been mis-
undersfoOdf for he has mind
soul and IN intense liking for He
that Is not OF the ring
When we came TO attach our sig
natures TO the contract-the most
volumnious that has ever concerned
two pugilists lit is made up Of eigh-
teen crowded folios which I. person
ally, found the utmost difficulty IN
dissecting and Understandings Demp-
sey had no questions to ask Like
myself ne had sickened because OF
the long drawn out negotiations. and
the match was definitely made IN
few minutes. Then IL was that he
gripped me heartily by the hand and
took me on one side 20 chat about
things far removed from the ham
mering and butchering business this
fight is expected 10 be- We did not
talk one word OF fight; We were just
two ordinary business men with many
the way. that we shall meet in the
ring before the first week OF next
Dempsey Looks Boyish.
In appearance Dempsey who is
eighteen months younger than my
self. looks like an unusually Die ana
strong lad. ] was surprised at his
boyishness, and he has the ways Of a
boy. I should say that he has no
liking for fuss and ceremony, and he
is not given to boasting and brag-
ging. There IS nothing OF the swag-
gerer about Dempsey, and I am GER
tain that he has been misrepresented
by the eLagEeration which, all too
OFTEN. creeps into the boxing columns
OF his cOuntry's newspapers Neither
do I think he IS a party to the
humping OF the big drum which Is
the world that he Is the greatest
pugillst ever reared By his country.
No seIf-Advertisr.
This Is what I would call my pen
picture Of him: Complexion, dark
face, strong and rugged. without be-
ing brutal; general physical. makeup Up
as nearly perfect as possible he
carries himself easily; there is much
spring in his walk. His face which
although not finely chiseueds Is not
like that OF Beckett, as you would
Derhaps imagine il TO be from the
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vertfses tenseness and determination,
yet when ne allows q smile to play
about &c Il Is almost a kind. sympa-
thetic face. Certainly It is an arrest
ing and engaging face.
There f. much about Dempsey
that would cause you to pick him
out OF n crowds he n 30 obviously
powerful and serious and fit-he
Is not Of the Broadway. So far
he f. unEponed. a healthy, natural
man. who By ready assimilation
Of what he has seen and heard and
read, has more than average In
reIllEence. He does not talk a
Erent deals when he does talk
he reveals the practical, the com
mon sense mind. HiE belief in
himself IS supreme. but the sue
cess he has won in the hardest
school a man can pass through