New-York tribune., 1921-06-18
Severe I.acir1es
Handed Out
BY Dempsey
Champion Gives 5 Sparring
Partners Good Poundings;
Battling Cllee Down Twice
BY Jack Lawrence

KY JACK Lawrence
ATLANTIC CITY, N. r., June ia
severe lacing was handed out by jack
dempsey this afternoon to three of his
heavyweight sparring partners at about
as vicious training session AS the
champion has indulged in so far.
Jack didn't take the trouble to pull
any of his punches to any noticeable
extent and when his partners left the
ring after their two rounds of three
minutes each they were reeiing and
battle-scarred.
Battling Ghee, the shifty coiored lad
from New Orleans, gave the title holder
the best workout of the afternoon and
dempsey treated him to some man
handling that the Battler will be able
to feel long after frost sets in. When
Ghee stumbled out of the ring when
time was called in the second round
ne was bleeding from the mouth and
nose and was decidedly groggy.
Negro Hits Canvas Twice
Twice the colored heavy hit the can
vas with Willardesque look in his
eyes when his cave man jaw stopped
plle-driving lefts. Dempsey and Ghee
went at it this afternoon and it was
thought they were lifelong enemies.
The chocolate person showed no fear
Whatever of the champion and piled
idea to finish him off with as much
dispatch as possible The two had not
been mixing it thirty seconds before
the audience that filled the Airport
arena was in an uproar.
Dempsey worked his port hand over-
time and frequently sent the New Or
leans scrapper reeling against the
ropes But Ghee himself has a left
that is no pleasant implement to tride
with and Jack Dempsey became aware
of this fact to-day.
Before the champion discovered that
Ghee was out TO work and not to play
the colored boy had landed two jolting
lefts on Jacks jaw. The second of
these sent him back on his classic heels
and curled his upper lip into a for
bidding snarl. From that moment on
the training bout had all the aspects
of an honest-to-swat encounter.
Dempsey went after the New Orleans
battler and jolted him groggy with a
wkirlwind series of left jabs and hooks
that operated with such speed that it
was impossib ible TO follow them with the
eye.
Toward the end OF the trSC round
Ghee went down on his face and laid
there until Referee Teddy Hayes as
sisted him TO his feet. Time was called
while the blood was washed from the
nerro's mouth.
When hosdllities were resumed the
battler still appeared to have acquired
nc respect fdF the champions left and
returned to Nhe fray with rush that
probably syWprised Dempsey as much
~ it did w spectators The two had
! not ha@sz> mixing it more than forty
.=s~Sonds before Ghee again got in the
way of one of those piston-rod lefts
and sank to his knees. Dempsey caught
him in his arms and they stalled about
the ring in clinch until the colored
boy got his bearings.
Dempsey Gets Busy
Just before the finish of the second
round Dempsey swung q terrific right
irto Ghee's midsection and followed 1t
up with a stabbing left to the jaw
The Battler simply grunted and took
to his launches. The bell rang and
Teddy Hayes helped him out Of the
ring. It is possible that Dempsey was
glad to see him go.
Jack Renault engaged the champion
in the first bout and stopped so many
lefts and rights to the body that he
was glad to hurry away to the showers
when the affair was over. There was
lot of serious infighting in this scrap
and at times the mauling became SO
severe that @eddy Hayes could hardly
separate them. 1t was apparent that
Dempsey was pursuing the idea Of per-
fecting his left, for he used it con-
tinually. 1t lacked some of the deadly
accuracy displayed yesterday against
the lightweights, but toward the end
of the session it was finding the mark
with great frequency.
Dempsey's shadow boxing is about as
exhausting an exercise as could be
conceived He hits up fierce pace
from start to finish and at times shows
a savage aggressiveness that is almost
uncanny. Any material being who
stopped one of the devastating wallops
that he swishes through the air would
probably be out for a week.