Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-04-30
BY SPARROW M'GANN
Special Correspondent Of Great Falls Tribune
Gnnyricht 1qgp by The Grnaf Falls TrihInp

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New York. April 29.-The cause OF
boxing as an international sport will
be helped by Jack Dempsey's trip to
Europe in the opinion of Harry Dime,
the western sporting man, who has
been in Europe mixing up with fistic
matters for more than a year and wit
messed Dempsey's reception in Lon
don and Paris. The English, says Dime
in q letter received, today expected to
greet a great. low-browed. heavy
Jowied cave man, who talked with q
growl and ate meat with his fingers.
Instead. they saw a clean cut. like
able. intelligent chap with laughing
eyes and pleasing manners. All the
select barroOms that were dolled up
for Jacks visit have not seen him at
all and never will. And, writes. Dime,
he has shown much more interest in
giving the two big capitals the once
over, visiting points of interest, than
he has in mingling with the sporting
crowds. Wherever Jack has gone in
England he has shed lustre on the
fighting profession.
Appears for Soldiers
Every organization in England
writes Dime. that needs funds and
! has found it not beneath them to ask
favors of a prize fighter has solicited
Jacks attendance as a spectator at
shows. or as an exhibition top liner.
| Jack is ready and willing to do all he
can. but at present it has been abso-
lutely necessary for him to confine his
premise to causes relating to sick and
incapaeitated soldiers. He will appear
in the interests of both n France and
England"
SO far as fighting goes, says Dime,
there will be little or no talk of a bat
tie with Carpenter until after the
Frenchman gets through with Ted
kid Lewis. This battle, which takes
place a week from next Thursday. is
interesting all of Europe and Dempsey
has taken a box for the show. Beating
Lewis, Georges may be expected to
show SOM signs of interest in several
propositions relating to a scrap with
Dempsey in Europe.
Merely Pleasure Trip
ut will probably take place in the
course of another trip to England, how
ever writes Dime, "for Jack seems
firm in his statement that this is mere
ly q pleasure trip, a rest, and that his
next battle will be in the United
States"
Dime says that in addition to inter
est ONtT ItlupSty, WHICH mas Uceu as
keen in England as that manifested
over Charley Chaplin, the whole coun-
try is following with absorbing inter
est the investigation of the assertion
that a prizefighter lies buried in West
minister Abbey, where lone but kings,
prelates and illustrious British sol
diers, writer's, poets and painters have
been supposed to lie.
The fighter in question is-or rather
was-John Broughton, the man who
invented the boxing gloves and always
has been regarded as the father of
British pugilism. B%roughton, who died
in 1889, did not lose a fight until he
was As years old, when Slack beat him
and he retired from the ring. His great
patron was the duke of Cumberland,
who had him made a yeoman of the
guard.
Buried In Westminster
The mix up is due to the fact that
in Lambert church is an old stone with
an inscription to the effect that John
Broughton lies beneath. But there is
a similar stone in Westminster Abbey.
Also on the register of the abbey is an
entry date of January 81, 1883. to the
effect that Broughton that day had
been entombed in the West Cloister,
aged SO.
After the name on the abbey tomb
stone is a blank space. 1t is said that