Grand Forks herald., 1922-06-12
/ .'ons Abse'nee n ! From Ring
And Change Id Attitude or
J Mind viii Be Main
! Causes; Looks As Though
| He Is Dodsing I Fight
With ' Harry viii. Right
{ New; Willard Bout a Joke.
By @. b. Locklfn.

81 4 Jack Dempsey ID due Tor fail
/; when he meets his next tough oppon-
.5ent utiless he begins to take his chatl1i- :
4 pion,sliip seriously again. The two
& main reasons aside from the tough 6p-
) poneht viii be his long absence from
Z the ring and his change in attitude Of
mind, Or, az the professor would put it,
& the psychological ASPECT. :
I. !. On the fourth Of next month it Will
M@be M@be year since DEMPSEY has been in
" ring. During that time. no has been
living an easy 1ife, and by the, way
sstninss line UP he will not have fight
s$Defore he meets Carpenter. That IL
~ long time for q fighter. especially d
s3heaYyweight, to be idle and it will
saccunt seriously against him when he
~ meets his next opponent. It has been
sssproved tame after time that fighter
#Sl0ees speed and punch by taking too
4 long vacations. and 4 heavyweight de-
{ generates faster than any other.
Many Months OF Id1cness.
!%Sss It has been months since Dempsey
hAs even done aEy trainig. HIS Eur
Ssopean jaunt was anything but product
1.-Two of stamina and after an athlete
6 quits training for any length of time
SIT is hard work to get into the grind
v again. The longer he puts it of the
Ss{ni6fc he hates to start.
Jacks wonderful speed and hitting
sp0Wer are his main assets. If he
sSs loses either to any degree he will be
L, an easy victim for. some young fellow,
ard there is a big possibility that: he
will find that already he has dropped
xon in both.
K. 55 Then there is the psychological as
iS pect. and that is not to be scoffed al
II by any means. No man can bet q
champion long unless his mind ID ser
TSiously on his business. Jacks has
d inE for the past year. He has become
Z socially inclined to q marked degree
4 Few men, least OF al prize fighter
sscan keep their head when everyone is
making a fuss over them. Dempsey
returned from Europe more like a
kittenish prima dona than the serious
minded fighter OF i year ago. Every
where he went on the other side he
was wined and dined. They all petted
men. officials and he il showing the
sse6ects of it.
Ss@ Dodging Bout.
ts When Dempsey first became cham.
ss1ioh he absolutely drew the color line
SsN Opponents became scarce, how.
sever. and Jack wanted action
Fitted bars and said ne would fsh
EE.anyone the public wanted him to meet
s1f there was enough money in it. He
$|sseems to have changed his mind again
Though. and there is no. question but
S:t:wl,at heas running away from a 1f1atcf
with Harry Willis. the colored heavy
weight. When he landed, Richard of
Tered him an immense purse to fiEh'
willis on Labor Day in Montreal, but
1T was turned down. It wasn't tht
4: money. either. Even Jack could moi
Ss2give that as an EXCUSE. He simply
Il said that he would. not be ready tt
shsht by then, and 1t was over foul
M months away.
NE Willard Propaganda.
WI There has been considerable propa'
: kat1da spread about match betweef
dempsey and Jess willard, but in tht
S;Ittind Of most experts it will never
Ncon1e of. Jess would simply be fol
5sloxinE in the wake Of Jim Jeffrie.
when the great JEFF came out Of OBJ
f::liv4on and stood UP as punching bat
u for Jack johnson. ~
SO SO Willard had passed his prime wher
he met Dempsey He had fought onl,
3 three times in five years when HI
II tackled Jack. Now, over a span o.
eight years, he has had four fights. HI
Hasn't entered the ring since July 4
sa1s1s, when he lost the title. He Il
M4orty He found 1t hard to pull of
Msuperfluous fat then. How rhucl
Mharder would the task be now.
@ II Willard is sincere in his rernarl
Mthat he would like another fight will
s3bempsey it is merely for the none!
Sshe could pull down even as the chal
fsnrer. willard never , did like TT