The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-11-09
JACK DEMPSEY SAYS
DAY is LOST when
NO ACTION IS FILED
BY FRANK G. MENKE

JACK dempsey Is DeSlnnlng TO count
that day lost whose low defending sun
marks no new legal battle against him
begun.
Life for the Utah Mauler through
the past few years has been little more
than a succession of law suits Jocose
persons assert that he has retained
fighting condition because of the
splendid exercise gained in lodging
process servers.
Dempsey first gained real acuuaint-
| anceship with process servers, law
yers. judges, juries and the like
through the efforts of John, the Bar
| Der" Ressler TO gather Dempsey unto
himself once again
John undertook to manage Dempsey
back in 1916 when the big kid first
| appeared in Gotham. But Dempsey
didn't show an awful lot of greatness
| then. John decided it wasn't worth his
while to frivol around with him. So
| he practically cast him adrift.
| Tempus fitted Then Jack Hearne
| grabbed Dempsey and piloted him
| along to greatness and a champion.
ship. When Dempsey proceeded to
arrive, John, the Barber" figured he
| had pulled a boner and tried to get
| Dempsey back. But Dempsey would
not do any comeback for him. The
razoring person then sued Dempsey
| for breach of contract.
Jack Ran Gauntlet.
| None but manipulation of an adding
machine knows in just how many diff
ferent towns Ressler sued Dempsey.
But the records show that legal action
against the heavyweight was taken in
| Chicago, St. Louis, Minneapolis. New
ark, Toledo, New York and elsewhere
! In each place Dempsey emerged tri-
umphant But everywhere he ran the
gauntlet of process servers.
! Eventually he became champion.
| Then his legal troubles really start
ed
The government indicted him in
San Francisco-and it cost Dempsey
| 100000 to clear himself. Frank Spell
man, former business associate, lat
er filed two suits against him. One
had been tried twice, with a jury dis
agreement as the result. The other
is yet to be heard.
| Decided to Sue.
Somebody in Atlantic City decided TO
do some suing. Then an Indian out
in Oklahoma sued his wife for divorce
anu udleu dempsey II was BECAUSE
he had seen his wife gazing raptur-
ously at a picture of the champion. 1t
was quite easy for the champion to
prove that he never saw or had heard
of the woman in his life-but it cost
him certain amount for lawyer s
fees.
A woman in New York, having been
introduced to Dempsey about a year
q in m
husband that 81 am a great friend OF
Jack Dempsey's." She was so great
a friend of Dempsey's that if they
had met in the street later, the cham
pion probably wouldn't have recogniz'
ed her. Yet her feminine boast to her
husband got the latter so exercised
that he came close to suing for di
vorce and naming Dempsey as an
ralienator of affections.
Kearns and Dempsey rented an
apartment in New York. After they
gave it up the lady-like owner of the
iplace discovered that a so cent china
Tournament had been broken. She de
cided upon suit and process servers
began doing foot races with Dempsey
Meanwhile another batch of servers
were trying to shove papers into
Dempsey's hands notifying him thai
he had been sued by a doctor who
had been paid $500 for a slight opera
ton upon Dempsey's nose-and who
} demanded $1,000.
Climax Reached.
The climax was reached when the
piano-playing hubby of Bee Palmer
originator of the art of shimmy shak
ing, decided that the buster of the
prize ring had swiped the affections
of the lovely, blonde Bee. He ap
} praised the affections of Bee at 800,
} 900 and promptly sued Dempsey fol
that much.
He's nothing but love pirate" as
: serted the hubby.
"Haw, haw, amt that rich-me &
love pirate" chuckled Dempsey in re
buttal
The question as to whether or no
Dempsey is or isn't a harpooner o
the caressing affections of the cir
with the shimmiest shoulders in thu
7 world will be decided in court-soon
Meantime Dempsey, grins, and de
clares:
I I'll wager little that | know more
process servers than any other guy il
= America. Any takers?"