Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-29
DEMPSEY GLAD
CRlNDlS OVER
The Last Workouts Will Be
Staged Today Behind
Closed Doors.

AI46llSAS lily, GNs JsS uUo G0s"xOe
day is the beginning Of the end Of
Jack Dempsey's two months training
grind, the champion Is all through
with his workouts in the open air
arena and the last work outs this aft
ernoon probably will be staged be-
hind barred gates in the old Airplaao
she'd back of the training camp. The
work. will be light and may not In
clude boxing. Il
The champion, dreading the last
three days of marking time, is glao
that the long seige Of training is
nearing an end. He does not display
any outward signs Of nervousness or
i~rritability and his handlers agree
hardly. be improved.
I'll be glad to have this thing over
! with Dempsey said. you have no
idea of the h%ardships Of a long train
ing grind. It's terrible. II Il was
offered five hundred thousand for a
fight a. month from now l would not
go through with this. again. I am
tired of training. 4 want to take a
rest Just as soon as l can get my
affairs in shape, after meeting Car
pentier, I am going home to Salt
Lake City, then on west for a vaca-
ton"
~ II - 49, rH|s. ~ AHCVs~ HftH $50
Dempsey is about three pounds over
the figure he expects to scale when he
climbs into the ring at Boyle's Thirty
Acres Saturday afternoon. but ex-
poets to los a couple pounds today
and tomorrow and another pound
when he dries out Friday. He will
abstain from eating certain foods and
will only drink water the day before
the battle. He scaled 1913 pounds yes
terday and expected to go into the
ring at the 100 pound notch.
The program mapped out for the
champion today calls for some light
exercise and perhaps a round or two
Of boxing il he feels inclined to put
on the gloves. He will perform be-
hind locked gates away from the
curious eyes of the public. The signs
in front Of the box ONCE have been
yanked down and the ticket boxes
have been turned v to the owners
Only newspapermen and perhaps
a few friends will be admitted thii
afternoon and tomorrow.
To Leave Friday. y "a
Attaches Of the camp already have
begun the task of gettings things II
shape for the champions departure
According to present plans, Dempsey
and his party will leave for Jersey
City Friday. He will spend the day
in the. s~ecluston Of AHrivate home IN
Jersey City and until the time to &C
to the arena. The day before the bat.
tie will be longest Of all and Demp.
sey's handlers are preparing to nurse
him with extreme care.
The champions workout in private
yesterday was brief. He boxed 9
round with the light bag, another with
the heavy one and a round each with
Eddie OHare and Larry Williams
He eliminated shadow boxing and wa
= On the: way to the shower within
, fifteen minutes.
Champs Car Seized.
Dempsey did not know until today
that his big o a was in. the pos.
for a half hour yesterday. Dempsey's
chauffeur drove James F. Dougherty
the Philadelphia referee nj a
friend of the champion, to the
Quaker city, where the car wal
seized to satisfy a I'VE hundred dollar
Judgment a Philadelphia surgeon had
obtained against the champion.
Dougherty, however, appealed on
behalf of Dempsey to the superior
for November. The car then was
released.
Dempsey will fight this thing to a
finish," Dougherty said. "He doesn',
object to paying the five hundred dol.
lars, but it is the principle involved
He was charged one thousand dollar.
for the removal of a small bone in his
nose and believes the fee. is unreason
able. He paid five hundred dollars
shortly after the operation was per.
formed and the specialist demanded
an additional five hundred dollars
The operation vas a very ordinary
one and did not require twenty min.
utea.n $50