The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-19

By GEORtES CAlSiENIlEh,
twritten Expressly for the International
News Service and the London sunday
Esprcss)
Copyright, 1920. by International News
Service and London sunday ENprcss)
LONDON, Dec. ISL am glad to
know you"
This was how Jack Dempsey greet
cd men when we met to sign artiCle1
to fight fer the championship of the
world. Which was very different
from what / expected and was led
70 believe. | had pictured Dempsey
M big, roaring fellow. with little
personal charm, intolerant rather,
not nice stranger TO softness and
what passes for common courtesies.
made the pleasant discovery that,
outside the ring, at least, he is just n
human, well ordered young man,
softly spoken. extremely pleasant In
a quiet, reserved way.and altOgeth-
er opposite to what l had prepared
myself for At least on 30 occa-
sions,. when alone. r had seen him,
as represented by the film. In his
fight with willard fierce. vicious,
terrible. merciless, punching into
heiplcssness the biggest. heaviest
man ! have ever seen.
That was the only Dempsey l
knew until ! met and spoke to him
but few short days ago.
Dempsey Misunderstood.
MY opponents have been many
and OF a widely different stamp.
Bombardier Wells, almost cffemi-
nate. Billy Papkc and Frank Claus,
cruel, without Imagination, just
fighting men; jeanette, a black man,
who In his nature is white, Gunboat
smith, concei,ed. reckless OF speech;
Joe Beckett. good, honest, strong;
Levinsky, with a Jaw OF iron and i'm
mensely courageous-but never
fighting man like Dempsey There
may be a brute in him: | believe
there Is. as there surely is in all OF
US: but he Is not the monster he has
been represented to be. Rather |
would say that ne has heen mlsun-
derstood: for he has mind, n soul
and an intense liking for life that Is
not OF the ring.
When we came to attach our
signatures to the contract--the most
voluminous that has ever concerned
two pugilists ut is made up OF is
crowded folios which 7. personally,
found the utmost difficulty in dis
secting and Understandings -Demp-
sey had no questions to ask. Like
myself, he had sickcncd Of the long,
drawn out NEGOTIATIONS ana the
match was definitely made In a few
minutes Then II was that ne
gripped me heartily by the hand and
took me 10 one side TO chat about
things far removed from the ham
ocring and butchering business this
firht is expected to he. We did not
q. ft,,N, 4, -
two ordinary business men, with
many ideas In common. | do not
think, by the way. that we shall
meet In the ring before the first
week ~ next July
Dempsey Looks Bo,ish.
In appearance DEMPSEY, who Is
is months Younger 'han myself
looks like an unusually big and
strong lad. | was SURPRISED Mt his
boy.shness and he has the ways Of a
hoy. should say that he has No
liking for fuss and ceremony, and he
= not given to boastirg and Tag-
ging. There In nothing ~ the swag-
gerer about Dempsey and ! am Ger
| tain that ne has been misrepresented
by the esargeration which. all toe
often. creeps into the boxing columns
| Of his country's ncwspa Dcrs. Neither
| 40 think ho IL marty 10 the
! 'humning of the big drum which i
thought necessary 10 impress unor
! the world that no Is the greatest
pugilist over -earod by his country
M So,f-Ndycr' 'isc-
This Is what would call my per
| picture Of him. Complcvion. dark
face strorr and rugged, wi'hou' he
| ing brutal general physical mlt"'
M as nearly nerfect AZ nOssihle. w
carries hirrsclf easily there Ia nucf
sprlng in his walk, Tis face, whicf
although not firolv chiseled, IL mo-
! like that OF peckett, as Won wou''
perhans IMAGINE II 10 be from th'
| puhlisNed nhoioVranha ~ him. !
rdvertises 'enseneas and ieterr'lna
tlon, yet when he allows sm'l" =
plav about Il, II IL almost Wind
syrnna the,ic face. C"rtai"lv 1t IL aI
sr-os.irp and onr1Cln" tao
There Z. much about per' osey tha
would cause YOU 10 pick him out o.