New-York tribune., 1921-05-08
Ends
Days Of Rest
I'm Fine rim
Champion Will Continue
to Keep Secondary Camp
ait Welsh Health Farm
By c. F. Fitzgerald

JACK dempsey, world s heavyweight
champion, is prepared to tell the
world that there is no place on earth
to equal Freddie Welsh's health farm
in the hills near Summit, NJ j., as a
place for recuperation. OF course,
Jack doesn't profess to say that he
was an invalid when he went to Sum-
nit two weeks ago for "a complete
rest" but he emerged from the hills
Thursday fit as fiddle and right on
edge for bout with any man living.
Welsh was the champions doctor
in chief" while Jack was soiourning
at the farm, and if Freddie ever finds
himself in need Of recommendation
as health promoter he need go no
further than Dempsey himself, and
Jack kearns will De ready to attach
his o. K. to anything his protege may
say.
Incidentally when the former light
weight champion begins to harvest his
crop of carly vegetables about July
he VIII have none other than Jack
Dempsey to thank for the success or
failure OF the yield Jack literally
spaded up and raked over every patcn
Of open ground on the Englishman's s
hilltop farm In fact, an hour or
two of farm work was part of the
daily routine of each day of rest the
adversary of Georges Carpenter put
in under Welsh's tutelage.
Dempscy's Day of Rest
A day of rest for the champion be-
gan at a. m. with a jog Of Ave miles
or more over the hills and through the
dales in the region of Summit. Jack
was generally accompanied on these
jaunts by Welsh and three or four
other patients at the health farm, and
the runners returned to Fredde's
homestead about a. m. for break
fast.
Mrs. Welsh, wife of the former
terer, although Dempseys wishes
were strictly observed in every dish
placed before him and the same bill
of fare was served t. all other pa
tients. The period of farm work gem
orally broke the monotony between
breakfast and II a. m,, when the
American principal in the big affair at
Boyle,s Thirty Acres" spent two
hours in the gymnasium.
Shadow boxing was the chief fea-
ture of the indoor work, although the
medicine ball was used by Jack as a
plaything whenever there was nothing
else in the way of exercise on the pro-
gram. Occasionally Jack would pat
on the gloves with some youngstcr So
journing at the farm, but as far as
boxing is concerned there really was
none of it for the champion during
his days at Summit
Plays Golf OF Tennis
His period of gymnasium work com
pleted. Jack continued each day of
rest with a splash at tennis or golf
There was not racqueter among the
patients who could afford the cham
pion amusement at the nets, and as for
golf, he so FAR surpassed all rivals
that none of them would dare face
him. He played frequently alone, al
ways with big gallery trailing his
footsteps.
Returning from the tennis courts or
golf links, Dempsey would fill in the
few minutes before supper time play
ing with Welsh's two pretty children,
and after the evening meal the cham
pion would hop in his big automobile
and drive around the countryside un-
til nightfall.
Even if his engagements should keep
him UP until midnight or thereafter,
he refused to let anything interfere
with his early rising, and there was not
one day but found him in running togs
and actually on the read by 6. a. m.
Will Return to the Farm
When Jack departed Thursday from
the Welsh farm he left word that he
would continue to regard the hilltop
as his secondary quarters and would
visit there frequently before July 2,
the date he is engaged to box Car
pentier. His personal gymnasium eff
fects were left in care of Welsh along
with most of his clothing, and whenever
he tires of performing for crowds at
the seashore he expects to beat it to
the health farm. thus interspersing
dsys of rest with strenuous exhibitions
with sparring partners at the seaside.
Take it from "Doctor" Welsh, no
boxer ever started preliminary train
ing with mo1e earnestness than Demp
sey displayed while at the Summit
farm. Welsh says, moreover, that the
American title-helder has no notion of
doffing his crow on July and that
if the "frame O. mind" counts for any
thing the big fFscas is as good as de-
cided in jacks favor, and within the
space OF ix rounds at that.
Welsh doubtless will be one of the
men ia Dempsey's corner in the title
battle, and meanwhile he expects to
put in many days with the champion
in the airdrome at Atlantic City