The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30
DEWPSEYSTRTP
 AIDS CAUSE OF
 BOXING ABROAD
London Surprised Champion is Really LikeabIe
 Young Fellow
By SPARROW MGANN ecIaI Correspondent of The Age-Herald L tnrn..rirhf 1ao2 hY Tha ARc- eraIdl

Special Correspondents or Ihe Age-heralu
 tCOpyright. 1929. by The Age-HeraId)
 New York, April 29.-The cause of boxing as an international sport will be helped by Jack Dehpsey'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 witnessed Dempsey's reception in I4onuon and Paris.
 The English, says Dime in letter received today expected to greet a great low -browed, heavy jowled caveman who talked with a growl and ate meat with his fingers. in- stead they saw a clean-cut, lika- ble boy, an 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 luster oh the fighting profes- sion.
 Every organization in England" " writes Dime, that needs funds and found it not beneath them to ask favors of prize fighter hEs solic- ited Jacks attendance as a specta- tor at shows. or as an exhibition topliner. Jack is ready and willing to do all he can, but at present it has been absolutely necessary for him to eonfine his promise to causes pa1 n fa sick and inpg ngpifRn gnl- diers. He will appear in the inter- ests of both in France and England"
 So far as fighting goes, says Dime, there will be little or no talk of a battle with Carpenter until after the Frenchman gets through with Ted CKfdfD Lewis. This battle, which takes place week from next Thurs day. is interesting all of Europe, and Dempsey has taken box for the show.
 Beating Lewis. Gorges may be ex- pected to show some signs of inter- est in several propositions relating to a scrap with Dempsey in Europe.
 Tt will probably take place in the course of another trip to England however" writes Dime. For Jack seems firm in his statement that this is merely pleasure trip, rest, and that his next battle will be in the United States"
 Former English PugiIist
 Dime says that in addition to in terest over Dempsey, which has been as keen in England as that mani fested over Charley Chaplin. the whole country is following with ab- sorbing interest the investigation of the assertaion that prize fighter lies buried in Westminster abbey, F. 1,fn ~r,J a illustrious British soldiers. writers poets and painters, have been SUD- posed to lie.
 The fighter in question is-or rather was-John Broughton. che man who invented the boxing glove and has always been regarded as the father of British pugilism. Brough- ton, who died in 17S9, did not lose a fight until he was 45 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.
 The mix-up is due to the fact that | in Lambeth church is an old stone with an inscription to the effect that John BroCghton lies beneath. But there is a similar stone in Westmin- ster abbey Also on the register of the abbey is an entry under date ol January 21, 17Ss. to the effect that Broughton that day had been tomb ed I in the west cloister. aged S6 After the name on the abbey tomb stone is a blank space. It is said | that 1t had been intended to carve here record of Broughton's pugil- | istic prowess, but that the dean 4 1 the abbey would not permit this. The Englishman that can beat Dempsey thus has a glorious future marked out for him along the line | of the Broughton precedent For ir copping the worlds laurels, the Brit ish champion not only could live | gloriously in this world, but lie .r | d top-hole place after he has 1 na ssad on.