The Washington herald., 1922-12-12

Dan remembers Dempsey quite
well-but not at all favorably. For
Jack surely has caused Dan to be
a prophet without honor. He
ruined Dams white hope" and
heaven alone can count up how
much Dempsey has cost Morgan in
wagers.
Some few years ago when Demp-
sey was just coming along. Dan
figured him q setup for Battling
matched up. 1t happened in Phila-
delphia where Dan told all those
within hearing of his voice that the
Battler was going to assassinate
the Westerner in cold blooded and
brutal fashion.
1t may be recalled that Dempsey
merely toyed with Levinsky for
two rounds. so as to give the
crowd some sort Of show for it's
money. In the third he let a few
loose-and there was worry for
some little time afterward as to
whether the Battler would live to
fight again.
FINISHED LEVINSKY.
Levinsl<y. once a fistic sensa-
ton, never was the same man
after Dempsey crashed home q few
in the Quaker City.
When Dempsey fought Willard
the only fear this Dan person had
was that they might hale Jess
into court afterward on a man
slaughter charge. The boys do
say that Dan bet a youthful pile
Of large sized bank notes upon
Willard.
And again Dempsed crossed"
him.
Morgan thought Carpenter q
cinch against Dempsey-and backed
his opinion with huge stacks Of
green stuff. Again Dan came a
financial cropper.
Dams getting a little revenge
now by spoofing Dempsey's ability.
But there's the idea here and
there that when Dams spoofing
goes to the extent Of attempting to
create the idea that Dempsey would
be soft stuff for men like Rubin
or Maher. he's overreaching his
little self.
Dempsey is 20 infinitely faster
than Maher was at his bes$ that
you can't speak Of the two birds
with the same voice. Dempsey could
outstep Maher two to one and, il
he possessed no other advantage
over Peter, that single one would be
enough to insure him victory.
THREW HIS PAW.
Maher was . one-punch fighter
the old "haymaker" kid. He'd pick
his right paw off the floor every so
often and throw 1t at an opponent.
II 1t landed the fight usually ended
then and there. But the quaint
thing about Peters punch 10 that,
like all haymakers, II arrived but
rarely at its destination.
Dempsey 10 q two-handed fighter
perhaps the only two-handed hit.
ter In the games history. And
into either hand he can pack as
much dynamite as Maher carried in
the best days he knew.
30. II the two met, with both in
their prime. what would be the an.
swer-when one remembers that
Dempsey Is twice as fast as Maher
was, can hit with two hands Just
a. hard-and much truer-than
Maher could hit with his right?
As far as Rubin IL concerned:
He knocked out Sharkey in 1900
and put away Maher in 1904. But
Sharkey earlier had been ''softened"
in his terrific twenty-five-round tus-
sle with Jeffries, and Maher was
about all through in 1909. Beyond
that he never whipped a formidable
man in his hfe-or Tough. one
either. beyond Bob Fitssimmons and
Jim Jeffries. And both Of them put
Gus to sleep without any excess ex-
ertion.
SHOWS HE Is COMEDIAN.
When Danny spoofs Dempsey to
q point where he insists that Rubin
could have whipped him ''easily"
Dan makes himself an involuntary
applicant for \ job As q buriesque
comedian.
It's true that Dempsey lives In
an era when good heavyweights are
scarce and great aspirants are nom
existant. But it's equally true that
no man ever has extended Dempsey
since 1918 with the exception Of
Bill Brennan. And Bill did the ex-
tending only because Dempsey