The New York herald., 1922-05-19
PROMOTERS FORM
ON RIGHT TO-DAY
Chelsea Piers Festooned With
Cauliflower Ears in Honor of
Champions Homecoming.
BY w. o. McGEEHAN.

The Chelsea Piers VIII be feStooned
with cauliflower ears to-day in antici-
patton of the arrival of Jack Dempsey,
the heavyweight champion. and the
docks will be sprinkled with eau de CO.
logne In honor of his manager. Jack
Kearns. According to the committee
for the reception of distinguished
guests admiring chorus girls will form
on the left, while promoters with certi-
fled and rubber checks will be formed
on the right
Chevalier Dan McKettrick will have
charge of the arrangements. He will
be assisted by Jimmy Johnston. the
boy bandit of Madison Square. Both
Will issue statements from time to time
and IL the occasion should arise will
issue a few ultimatums. The guerrillas
will pass in review as soon as the
Dempsey encourage lands Dempsey's
master of the hounds will greet the
! champion. mastering all of the dogs
purchased on the trip abroad.
Through courtesy OF the Ectoplasmic
Radio Dempsey's statement on arri-
val has been obtained before his ar
rival. (Ain't science wonderfully
1T is great to be back in the old
u. S. A." said the champion. II am
in the pink of condition and am ready
to defend my title against anybody II
the public demands it.
Anybody with a Purse.
"I like good old England and like
Paris, but the old u. S. A. for mine.
think that Carpenter is a much i'm
proved fighter and I am anxious to
meet him If somebody puts up a purse.
/ n
lard If somebody will put up purse.
] am anxious to meet Bill Brennan IL
somebody will put up purse.
1t is good to be back in the old U.
S. A."
"As soon as Dempsey has visited his
aged parents and ordered them a new
garage we will take up the offers for
matches" said Jack Kearns. ''Of course
Dempsey would sooner take on the
Brennan. Ted Lewis, Joe Beckett or
Johnny Kilbane, but II we cannot get
them we will fight anybody"
'Will you fight Harry Wills?" asked
the ectoplasmlc reporter.
I'VE will fight anybody II we get
enough money" replied the manager.
sp-inklng little lilac perfume on his
kerchief
What do you consider enough
dShtu the reporter.
"All we can get" replied the manager.
An Unusual PugiIist.
Willie Beecher, once a popular local
lightweight. was brought before Magis-
trate Mcclellan on a charge of selling
an Objectionable novelty. The former
fighter. who says that he was still suf-
fering from the effects OF poison gas re-
oelved in action at Chateau Thier-y, told
the Magistrate that he was down and
out. The real name of Beecher Is Abra-
ham Shanker.
The Magistrate recalled that he had
seen Beecher box in the old days and
dismissed the case after he advised the
ex-pugilist to write to his Congressman
for aid to secure the Government allow
ance for vocational training.
According to Beecher's story he did
an unusual thing for a pugilist. He en-
listed with the Fifth United States Ma
rines and won a Crox de Guerre and a
ID. s. O. in action. Beecher is only 2S
years old. but that is an advanced age
in the ring. and he claims that he never
will be thoroughly cured from the ef-
fects OF the gas
Beecher fought before lightweights
were getting purses running into five
fought often for moderate purses, but
now he has nothing left of his ring
earnings. He says that he Is reduced
to one Croix de Guerre. one d. S. o.
medal and the title OF ex-pugilist.