New-York tribune., 1920-12-14
Jack Dempsey
Defends Title
Here Toni gght
Heavyweight Champion in
Excellent Shape for Bout
With Brennan in Garden
BY w. O. Mcclellan

For the second time since he ac-
CURED the title Of heavyweight cham
plon of the world, Jack Dempsey will
work at his trade at Madison Square
Garden tonight. He will give a dem
onstration Of the wonderful wallop,
using Bill Brennan as the subject. The
champion stopped William in six
rounds when they met before. The
chances are that Dempsey will stop
Brennan with much more alacrity this
evening
The fact that Dempsey is participant
ing IN the evenings entertainment puts
the show in the class of heavyweight
championship bout, and the indications
ere that the Garden will be jammed to
Its capacity without Mr.. Richard, the
promoter. having to distribute very
many skulls" or "Annie Oakleys."
There will be more correspondents on
hand than there were at the Battle ot
the Marne
The consensus of opinion seems to
be that the demonstration will be brief
and to the point, the Hon. Leo P. Flynn
dissenting vociferously. The Hon. Leo
is telling the world that Bill Brennan
will be on his feet at the end of fifteen
rounds waiting tor the judges to hand
him the championship. The Hon. Leo
r. Flynn has repeated this so many
times that he may believe it himself.
People get that way.
$4,000 for the Loser
If at the end of one or two rounds
Brennan should block Dempsey right
or left with the point of his chin ne
VIII recover consciousness with some
thing like $35, 900 in his hand. or as
much OF that sum as will remain aftc..
the Hon. Leo P. Flynn deducts his
ices Tor professional services. This, as
somebody has just pointed out, is the
biggest surest loer' end ever paid out,
and would indicate that there is no
slump IN the ist,c market at present.
Jack Dempsey will be paid something
like 100000 for the demonstration
which probably will consist of one
punch.
1t will be Dempsey's New York debut
as champion and the chances are that
ne would draw just as many customers
with an even surer loser than Mr.. VIII
liam Brennan. Even in Benton Harbor,
the home OF the wild whskers of the
House of David, Dempsey crowded an
open air arena for very simple dem
onstration with Billy Miske and the
customers came there from far off
places.
While there seems to be no doubt
as to the ultimate result of the bout
excepting as to the matter of the fatal
round, the Boxing Commission intro
duced the element of suspense by re-
framing to name the referee and the
judges The names of these officials
will not be announced until tonight.
There will be other entertainment
besides the dropping of Brennan. Per-
haps the livelicst bout Of the evening
will be the one between Big Bill Tate,
Dempsey's ebony colored sparring part
ner, and Kid Norfolk, who is announced
by the Hon. Leo P. Flynn as the Coal
Black Assassin and the Inky Terror of
135th Street. There will be diamond
belt in addition to the purse involved
in this bout.
Norfolk Out for Revenge
Tate, in a preliminary at Benton
Harbor, was very rough with the ven
cradle San Langford, who is highly re-
garded in Senegambia. In fact, William
nearly knocked Sam out. This unclub-
like treatment of q venerable and es-
ire of the Coal Black Assassin and he
has vowed to knock William for a row
of raspberry bushes for his inhumanity
to old age.
Charlie Weinert, once Newark's can
didate for the heavyweight champion
ship, will return to the cauliflower
circles in a bout with BARLEY Madden,
who gave Jim Coffey one Of his last
beatings on American soil. 1t is re-
ported that Weinert has taken prize
fighting seriously for the first time and
that he is trying to emulate Frank
Moran in climbing up from the depths.
These three bouts will involve
heavyweights. BY way Of variety there
will be one preliminary between mid
dleweights. Marty Farrell, selected by
Jack Kearns as middleweight cham
pion candidate, will go six rounds or
less with Frank Mcclure.
Moving pictures will be taken of the
main event if it lasts long enough for
the camera to catch it. Jack Kearns,
manager for Dempsey, declares that the
champion intends to show burst OF
speed this evening. If he does that
camera will not be able to do much
loafng.
At a late hour last night 1t vas re-
ported from the Brennan camp that
the doomed man was sleeping peace
fully and had made no efforts to get
repreve.