New-York tribune., 1921-06-15
Dempsey Puts p
ssa =
In Strenuous
Time at Chesa
Champion Gets Brain Fag
After Few Moves; Iries
Hand a, Pitching TODD
By Jack Lawrence

ATLANTIC CITY, June Lilac,
Dempsey put in another day OF rest
less resting to- aay. He appearc5tto en-
Joy yesterdays lay-oT, with IT'S nighiy
successful promenade along the Board
walk, but to-dav the continued idle
ness seemed to pail on him.. This be-
came apparent to Manager Jack Kearr 3,
so he went out and arranged a baseball
game to be played tc-morrew morning.
with the big fellow scheduled for the
role of pitcher.
The last time Dempsey essayed such
a role he WAS pasted all cyer the lot
in the first inning. and was figpratively
hanging on the ropes before swo men
had been put out. Dempsey's team vi [
be made up Of his camp attaches, while
his opponents will be newspaper cor
respondents and actors.
Dempsey said tonight that he had
been taking some subrose instruction
IN the art Of twirling from a retired
big league pitcher, who is said to be
on vacation down here.
Those batters will feel like the Attn
letics when | begin TO put my fast one
over he said "And just keep your eye
on my insbSot. 1t breaks a mile.
Villagers Are Astonissled
The champion rolled up to the Ala
mac Hotel in his SIT 900 limousine
shortly after noon to-day ard handed a
thrill to the villagers gathered there
Denpsey's plush-lined limousine, deli
cate brown, is the biggest automobile in
Jersey.
Dempsey's call at the hotel vas for
the purpose of receiving batch Of
mail that had been held there for hinl.
He looked over It in Jack Kearns's room
and then the two went for long drive
through the country. Jack did no.
wear the Mallaca walking stick that
caused such a Jurors on the Boardwalk
yesterday.
Outside of the long automobile ride
the most strenuous thing the big fel-
low did to-day was to attempt q game
Of chess with Teddy Hayes, who is said
TO swing mean pawn. After three or
four moves the champion said the game
gave him pain in the head, and he
went back to pinochle with Jack Nc
Aulife.
This was scandal day in Atlantic City.
rumor having swept up and down the
town to the effect that Mayor, Edward
Bader had ordered Dempseylso camn
closed. story that Mayor Bader had
taken this action was printed in New
I ork and Philadelphia to-day, and it
AS1N4ISA III NCElbdDke hurricane o.
kilograms swooping down or Jack
kearns and the newspaper correspond
ents here demanding to know whether
the report were true E,o
Mayor Denies Closing Camp
The story grew out of the, fact that
several persons who have been fre-
qpenting Dempsey's camp for the last
week got themselves into a raucous
row with the police authorities here
and were urged to leave town at the
earliest possible moment. They did.
and before they left they were advised
lot to come back for very long time
" hen the writer asked Mayor Bader
about the report that he had ordered
Oempsey's training quarters closed he
laughed and said:
That's all rot. / never thought OF
such thing. AS matter OF fact.
there is nobody in Atlantic City mere
popular than Jack Dempsey. However,
there have been number of unpleas-
ant incidents recently that were annoy
ing to me as they were to Kearns and
Dempsey. "~
Certain persons from New York
were attracted here by the HEAVYWEIGHT
champions presence, and when he
treated them with the cordiality with
which he greets everybody they seemed
to get the idea that they owned At
lantic City. There were some fights
and three arrests, and then talked the
matter over with Dempsey and his
manager, and when suggested that
it might be advisable for the undesir-
ables to depart from here the cham
pion agreed with me and said that If
wanted him to he would heip me
throw them out.
Neither Dempsey nor his manager
is in any way responsible for these
unfortunate events, and never for
moment considered closing the camp"