New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-07-06
Off
For. His Home
To See Mother
Other Angles Enter Into
Hurried Departure, In
Guiding Suit for$ 100000

More than 9oooo persons sat in Tex
Rickard's giant Jersey City arena last
Saturday and imagined they were
watching Jack dempsey indulging in
one OF the most important battles of his
pugilistic career. They were all wrong,
brother; they were wofully mistaken
Jacks real fight hrs-not even started
yet. What's all tae shooting about :?
Ask the main potentate in the Sheriff's
office. Ask Frank Spellman. Ask the
Rev. Wilbur F. Crafts, the star per-
former of the International Reform
Bureau-and TRY and ask Jack Demp-
sey himself.
While the legal clouds were fast
gathering over the worlds champion
heavyweight yesterday, the man who
had knocked out Georges Carpenter
on Saturday was making strictly de-
fenslve fight against the crafty DIR.
Crafts. The duly elected reformer of
the universe is still bent upon landing
Jack behind the cold steel bars of the
hoosegow because of the champions
part in the recent battle in Jersey
, City, and DR.. Crafts, believe HIM
swings mean influence.
Immediately after Dempsey had laid
Carpenter low on Saturday, the crafty
Crafts sought to have William Harri-
son Dempsey, Of Salt Lake City, Utah,
arrested on charge af assault and
battery, naming Carpenter as the limo
cent. victim. Governor Edward I. Ed
wards. OF New Jersey; Mayor Frank B
| Hague, of Jersey City, and Chief of
Police Battersby all seemed to be af-
flicted with defective hearing when the
question of clapping Jack in the
booby-hatch was mentioned in their
presence.
Leaves to Visit Mother
| But the Rev. "Crafty" Crafts was no,
to be so easily foiled, and, through his
counsel, persisted yesterday in keep
ing on the trail of the big champion
The legal bloodhounds got so uncom.
fortably close to Jacks heels that he
suddenly made up his mind, on the
qul-Vive, so to speak, that he would
like to visit his mother in Salt Lake
City. - '''''' -'''Ns
It was but step from his hotel tc
the Grand Central station and there
dempsey hoped the Twentieth Centur,
Limited for the West, with Teddy
Hayes, his trainer, and Detective Mike
Trant, his personal bodyguard, in close
attendance. By the time Mr.. Crafts anc
his minions could say "Jack Robinson
ack Dempsey was skiddjng westward
hour. The international reformer was
barely in time to dash madly up to the
closed train gates in the Grand Contra
as Dempsey's train pulled out
Course you, Jack Dempsey! Foilec
again!"
That's that!
Requests Only 100000
Now, as to Mr.. Spellman's part ir
the legal hullabaloo. The latter
gentleman is the crepe hanger who tiec
up Dempsey's end Of the purse in The
Jersey City bout the day before the
men entered the ring. Spellman claims
that Jack and his manager, Jack
kearns, owe him the little sum of $100,
600 in connection with motion picture
contract.
Yesterday, just to keep in practice
Mr.. Spellman was successful in hav
ing Dempseys imported limousine at
tached, confiscated and put in duranct
vile by deputy sheriff, acting on s
writ issued last Friday in Batavia, N
Y.
And some folks imagine that Car
pentier gave Dempsey hard fgh
until the Knockout Wait unit
Messrs Spellman and Crafts ge
through swinging Blackstonian right:
and lefts at Jack!