The Alaska daily empire., 1921-05-21
CHAMP SHOWING MUCH SPEED IN
 TRAINING CAMP
Handles Sparring Partner Roughly Gets Nine Home
 Runs-Plans Maturing.

ATLANTIC CITY, May 21-Today was field day with Champion Jack Dempsey who handled his sparring partners with savage violence and added a baseball game to his rou- tine training
 Dempsey boxed. shadow boxed. punched the bag, almost knocked out Jack Clifford, closing one of his eyes with a terrific walop. and to wind up the festivities. made nine home runs in a baseball game be- tween newspaper representatives covering" his training and camp followers. Dempsey played with the newspaper men,
 NEW YORK, May 2a.-Arrange- ments for the Dempsey Carpenter heavyweight championship battle in Jersey City July are rapidly talk ing form.
 Although the international bout is six weeks away. Promoter Tex Rick ard is now focusing his attention on the details, so that his office oteAll iiiuy bC II tt u UdslUi6 IDe III creasing accumulation of ticket ap- plications.
 At a conference late today it was decided to send the fighters to the center of the ring at D. m., day light saving time. Under these con dltions, reports will be available in the East shortly after D. m., eastern standard time; one hour earlier in the central time section of the United States and as early as Il ]. m. on the Pacific Coast.
 The assigning of seats has proved trying to Rickard in his past titular ring offerings. In discussing the mat ter recently he stated that if every request were granted, the high priced sections would have to be eliminated To meet this problem it is probable that Rickard will request that com mittee of newspaper men be formed to take charge of the award and dis. tribution of such tickets.
 Three PreIiminaries
 In place of the numerous bouts which preceded the Dempsey Willard match at Toledo, there will be not nore than three preliminaries. While i no minor bouts have been arranged. | II is proable that one or more will nave an international aspect in keep [ ng with the main contest
 Tickets will be placed on sale aarlier than ever before in the case )f a heavyweight championship. The iekets are promised for delivery the oming week and these immediately will be distributed throughout the arger cities and placed on sale by authorized agents With the exeep- ion of few of the cheaper sections, very seat will be reserved. Prices will range from 5 to $50
 Tn Europe the news of the conflict @ill be bulletined about 2 p. m. Teenwieh time or D D, m. daylight saving time in both London and Paris.
 Press We'll Represented.
 Whether the battle is decided by knockout or continues for the twelve rounds, every movement of the pugi Lists will be recorded by what will be the largest assembly of news paper aGd press association reporters ever gathered for a ring battle.
 Rickard stated today that, large as was the number of writers at Reno n 1910 and at Toledo in 1919, there was every indication that the Jersey City bout would surpass both the Johnson Jeffries and Dempsey Will iard contests in this respect.
 So great is the early demand for press seats that tentative provision has been made to divide the report ing section into two divisions.
 Approximately 40 seats will be as. signed to the press at the ringsidc Directly back of this press section will come the arena boxes and other high priced seats for spectators while a second press section will follow.