Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-24
ny Westbrook PeEIer.

NEW YORK. April os.-Ir Jack
dempsey really does want work at
mis- trade. and Is willing to take
anything like a reasonable wage. no
VIII hnd opportunities awaiting him
on his return from Europe which
would buy himself and tho expensive
MI Rearns quite a number OF new
yellow caps. pale purple overcoats.
fhhrk-skin dancing slippers and as
sorted suits with that fashionable
quicker about the waistline.
Little Harry Greb. OF Pittsburgh.
is talking right up to Dempsey with
view to the $4,000 losers end OF
an cisht-round no-deciskon bout in
Philadelphia about the Fourth OF
July. Greb couldn't Aoor the cham
pion with nd-srenade. and
Dempsey probably would hit him ono
sincere rap on the chin for a knock
out inside OF three rounds. but Harry
wiling TO try. Dempsey needs
'hn money and the promotion IL re-
rorted 10 be under way In tho mild.
ieiiminary manner in which these
big undertakings begin.
Hrennnn Might Mike 1t n scrop.
olo Blll Brennan Is one OF DENIM
scJs most reliable customers. Jack
once hit him so hard on the ,aw
'hat nc broke Bits ankle. but the
next time they met Brennan was civ
NE Dempsey merry smashing until
NC champion suddenly perceived that
nc nidht so on; and commit his
massacre n" was goinG TO lose the
f-N ).
new YORK. hut IL Is one Of the best
heavywe'sht championship matches
n sight. Just the same. and wound
DC provocative OF much action.
furthermore. considering what
brennan was doing TO Jack until
ne got slapred in that last nght
mere would he more OF the element
or con;cs. abou: II than there
could be found in the inconCruous
faIrins OF Dempsey and Greb. There
must be several places that would
htaho tor the nfht II the boys VIII
ne content with couple OF hundred
thousand and not insist on ,aIl,,nr g.,
terms Of the Russian debit.
Doubt ra TO wills.
About Harry Wills there &c RON,
for considerable doubt His record
isn't much, esnecially in this lac,
year. and old Brother RNl was tust a
person TO play around with whom n.
helped train Dempsey for the last
brennan fight. Dempsey could R,ock
out Tate whenever no uleascd ara
this same Tate gave Wills all sorts
OF annoyance
Also. II might be very hard to
handle tho promotion Of DEMPSEY.
wills night ir 4 big way. Boxinr
commissions are tcuchy about ,nixea
nights, although the Jersey commits
sion. under new chairman Is now
understood 10 he willing TO stand
for this one. and some REPORTS have
II all wrapped UP 10 be called for
at Boyle's Thirty Acres on Labor Dav
Managers have been heating tho
bushes for months now 10 bring on,
"a new heavyweight OF ability. and
some pretty terrible persons hay.
been lured away from tho lumber
camps and burglar schools TO be tr,e6
out against parsons scarcely lcss fer.
rible in local rings
Jim Tracey, the Australian. claim
Ing the Australasian heavywejrh.
mpionship, came here TO rlrt win
death at Dempsey's hands, bu, some
one discovered that Mr.. Tracey had
IN his time. been squashcd by George
Cook, that other Australian who mas
recently been corked on the conk nv
Georges Carpenter ard Joe Beckett;
So Tracey's ticket Is punched out.
Ftrpo Wants Chanoe.
Iutd, Angelo Birpo. tho South Amer