The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-03
DEMPSEY DECLARES
PEGGY JOYCE AFFAIR
FRAMED BY REPORTER
~ FRANK G. MENkE

series OF SpCGldl dTI1ClSS ny MI. 4NlChhNs
which detail visit with Jack Dempsey
in Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 3.-"What
do you think of the rig?"
1t was Jack Dempsey's opening ques-
ton when l arrived there. There was
no immediate answer. One cannot
speak when rendered speechless. /
could only look at Dempsey's rig
and gasp for some of the famous Cali
fornia air.
"Sorta spiffy, eh?" grinned the cham
pion of champions as he whlrled
around slowly, in mannikin fashion, to
afford a complete and unobstructed
view of the most remarkable suit OF
clothes ever worn around these, or any
other, parts.
The body of the cloth which made
up the suit was sort of cream grey,
as the society editors might describe
it, created into a checked effect
through the medium of soft, yet dark
er, gray stripes, which ran both ways
of the cloth.
"Nope. l didnt'e get this bird in
London or New York" hazarded Demp-
sey, anticipating question. "A friend
right here in Los Angeles made it for
nae. I'm wearing it as a sort OF ad-
vertisement for him"
rs he an awning maker? l asked.
The champions face clouded.
"Naw-a tailor, that's what he isl"
he retorted. Then he grew conf
Dental.
Great Ad for Tailor
This fellow has just started j tailor
shop and he wanted me to get some
suits made there. So l ordered FIVE.
This is the first one. l had my pic
ture taken in it and he's going to dis
play that picture in his window to-
morrow. He thinks that by telling the
people l wear his suits it'll be great
ad for him. If it helps him, it's all
o. K with me-"
What are the other five like?" l
asked.
There's the secret" answered
Dempsey. "You just stick around I'M
til l trot 'em out and then you'll see
something that will knock you sitter
than four left hooks in succession"
We trekked the boulevard with an
ever increasing crowd in our wake.
Dempsey turned around occasionally
and waved to the followers.
Always have crowds following you
like this?" l asked
"Nope-not just like this crowd, -
he replied. Most of the crowds are
fight fans. This crowd is all made up
of jealous tailors trying to copy the
style of my getup.
"Oh," l ventured, then they aren't
fellows trying to get an idea for a
| good masquerade costume
| Once more Dempsey looked sad.
! All Looked at Suit.
! Whats the matter with this suit
what's the matter with it," he de.
manded. why, she's a darby. Lookit
the cut of it-Norfolk coat and every
thing. Vest s a little loose around the
waist because I've lost about five
pounds since l was measured for it
Otherwise it's a knockout-yes sir, a
knockout"
The suit was a perfect fit fo1
| Dempsey's splendid frame-but that
cream gray check effect-wowi And
everyone else seemed to think the same
way, for everywhere the big champion
wandered the folks first looked at his
| face, then at his suit-and thereafter
at nothing but his suit.
It's a fascinating suit-a spell bin
der-a sartorial creation.
4 A pal of the champion galloped along
just then, greeted Jack, took one lool
at the suit, looked searchingly a.
Dempsey-and said:
Say, Jack, you aren't dolling up be
cause Peggy Hopkins Joyce is il
town, are you?"-and away he went.
The face of Dempsey changed it:
expression with the speed of a lightn
ing flash. He had been smiling, en-
joying the ordinary joshing about hi:
suit and taking everything in his gooC
natured, boyish fashion. But the ref
i erence to Miss Joyce brought anger
Il Claims Mistake.
81 wish you'd help me get this Peg
gy Hopkins thing Strengthened out,
he said: Its causing the girl EN-
barrassment and it isn't getting an!
chuckles out of me- The whole thin:
came about in Paris where a newspa
per man, wYlting a story, figured h,
could get one by forcing Peggy joyce
and me to dance together.
Our party was in one of the Pari
cafes one night when this newspape
man-Lincoln Eyre-pointed out Pes
gy Joyce. He said he wanted me t.
meet her. He tried to coax us togeth
, er but neither of us would do it.
Then he got UP and few minute
/, later he danced with Miss Joyce an
; stopped suddenly at our table. HOY
,, he managed it l don't know. The dane
!, was still playing. When we had bee
introduced, he said that l was a goo
dancer-said it in such way as t
!. hint to me to dance with Peggy Joyce
There wasn't anything else for m
J to do but to ask the young woman 70
J that dance. We danced. l don't imas
inc she enjoyed it any more than
, did. l guess she felt, too, that we ha
D been sort of forced into meeting eac
. other and practically forced into dane
D ing.
Says Incident Framed
= 81 thought the whole thing had bee
3 framed on both of US so we would &c
3 sort of flushed and embarrassed an
3 people that Peggy Joyce knew coul
josh her about dancing with a pugilis
and my friends could kid me abou
Y dancing with Miss Joyce. 1t WASH
until l got back to this country that
learned that the whole thing had bee
sort of frame-up by Eyre so h
could build the incident into a stor,
linking the name of Miss Joyce wit
mine.
Il just want Miss Joyce and ever,
one else to know that the affair wa
not of my own making, nor of her
: and I've been mighty sorry for Mis-
, Joyce, because of the annoyance sh
4 NAV have suffered throrch II all