The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-06-21
JACK DEMPSEY is
ONLY rs YEARS OLD
WORLDS HEAVY WEIGHT CHAM
PION'S REAL NAME is WILLIAM
HARRISON DEMPSEY.

was christened, was born 26 years
ago in Manassa, Colorado. The pre-
fix Jack" was assumed by the biz
fellow when he had grown to mans
estate, and had chosen the fistic rine
for livelihood. AS fighter he hac
the idea and good one, that by as.
suming the Christian name of Jack
some of the glamor if not the won.
derful boxing science which the orig.
inal Jack Dempsey, Brooklyn's ia
nous "Nonpariel,' possessed as the
middle-weight title holder might re-
vert to him.
The champion is the sixth child OF
a family of eight. Three Of his
brother and. three sisters are alive
but the youngest Of the eight, who
was named Bruce, died about two
years ago. When Dempsey was sew
en- years old his parents, Hiram and
Celia Dempsey, with all their chill
dren moved from Manassa to Mont
rose, Colorado, where they lived for
nine years. Then the Dempsey house
hold was shifted to Salt Lake City
Utah, and that is the place which
they, including the champion, claim
as their home.
Born of rugged-parents Dempsey
claims that he has Irish, Scotch and
Indian blood in his veins and insists
that the fighting qualities for which
all three races are famous have been
bred in the bone and blood and have
come to. him in generous portions
from his antecedents.
Most of Dempsey's early life was
spent in the open on farm but later
he alternated by working in the mines
except in harvest time when he found
it more remunerative to devote his
strength to reaping wheat and other
crops in the grain belt In this way
Dempsey kept himself in fine physic-
al condition. the hard labor develop
ing the wonderful muscles which
proved to be such a useful factor in
his winning the worlds heavyweight
title.
Unlike his challenger, Carpenter,
Dempsey had very little early train
ing for career in the fighting arena,
while the French champion was a
close student of the glove game and
an actual competitor when he entered
his "teens"
According to Dempsey's own story
his first fistic encounter was in an
improvised ring at Montrose, Colora-
do, when he was about 19 years old.
His opponent was young blacksmith.
named Woods, whom he knocked out
in the third round. This initial con-
test netted the now champion $25.
His next fight also resulted in a
third round knockout. Andy Malloy,
who had previously walloped one of
Dempsey's older brothers, being the
victim.
When he was 20 years old Dempsey
began rowing around, taking on
bout whenever the opportunity offer
ed, while between times he returned
to odd farming jobs or worked as a
miner. His first Eastern experience
in the fighting arena was in New
York city where he met Andre Ander-
son, Wild Burt Kenney and Lester
Johnson, negro in ten round no de-
.cision bouts. This was in 1916.
During the following year Dempsey
knocked out AL Norton and Charley
Miller, each in one round. Later he
won from Willie Meehan, Carl Morris,
Bob McAllister and Gunboat Smith in
four round bouts in California and
was knocked out in one round by Jim
Flynn, the "Pueblo Fireman" In the
following year Dempsey reversed
this by knocking Flynn out in a
single round and following up with
series of knockouts, among his
victims being Fred Fulton, Battling
Levinsky, Porky Flynn, Arthur Pei
key and Terry Kellar.
Defnpsey's banner year was 1919
when after scoring five knockouts of
one round each in Pennsylvania and
Connecticut, he won the title by stop
ping the big Kansan Jess Willard at
Toledo, Ohio, on Independence Day
two years ago.
Carpenter Refereed Fight
Sometime after he defeated JEFF
ferries, Jack johnson was indicted on
charges Of violating the Mann Act
but he evaded arrest and finally
journeyed to Paris.
When the exchequer shriveled bit,
he accepted challenge from Frank !
Moran, of Pittsburgh, and they faced
one another in France on June 81,
1914. The negro warrior scored a
victory on points in 20 rounds.
Moran was game and stubbornly
stood up to Johnson's assaults, which
had not the steam of the champions
earlier attacks. johnson possessed
all of his old-time skill, however.
There was not single knockdown I
nor anything that smacked of a
finishing blow Johnson's superior
skill and his incessant uppercutting
kept Moran in subjection. Moran's
attack lacked the power to dispose Of
his adversary.
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