The Connecticut labor news., 1922-01-20
DEMPSEY MIGHT
 AS WELL JUNK SELF
 NOW, FANS ASSERT
Can Join Disarmament Forces Be- cause of Lack of Suitable
 Opponents.

As far as ring activities are con cerncd, Jack Dempsey might as well be junled with all the other fighting machinery proposed in this new day of peace.
 In the absence of worthy opponents the worlds heavyweight champion may do everything but the only thing he can do-hght.
 Unless some reckless promoter is willing to throw one of his former victims back into the cage with the mankillcr and take a chance on get ting a crowd around to see what happens, Dempsey looks like he is due for an extended fling at the stage and the movies.
 Tex Rickard has a big arena over i'll Jersey City that is costing him money and bringing i'll nothing and he is just as keen to put the stadium to work next summer as Dempsey Is to get back to work, but there isn't a real opponent around who doesn't need long and expensive "building up."
 Jess Willard, the Kansas Giant, looked for a while to be the logical candidate for the role of the next vic tim, but the former champion who was maulcd away from the title in Toledo, found couple of oil wells in one of his backwards and gave up the assignment.
 Harry Wills, the big colored battl- CT, has a campaign working behind him to get chance for the crown, but he seems to be out of luck, be- cause il is very doubtful if any state would sanction a mixed bout.
 Fred Fulton might last while against Dempsey, but the tall blast crer hasn't enough color to draw much at the gate.
 Of the other lighter men there are few that would justify a promoter in taking risk involving the amount of money that would be demanded by kcarns and Dempsey
 Jimmy Johnston, knowing that a the man who brings out the successor of Dempsey, recently struck upon the novel idea of advertising for heavies who figured they had the makings of a champion
 Instead of being the joke that some thought ii would be the call was an sWered by 30 huskies of various sizes, colors, races and talents. Johnston thinks there might be one man in the lot who Is the next champion. He, however, is the only one who
 thinks that way. They say fghters like Dempsey are born and not made
 and looking over the list of all the present champions there isn't single
 one who can be advertised as a pro-
 duct of any gymnasium There Is little doubt that there is an
 unknown, some place, who is the next | champion. As a matter of course, l Dempsey must pass on and another 1 king of the class must take his place.
 The heavyweight division might de- l generate in class like the middle l weight division, but there will always be heavyweight champion, good or | bad
 Jim Corbett was an unknown bank clerk when John L. Sullivan was | thought the unbeatable champion; Bob Fitzsimmons was just a fighting middlcweight when Corbett was lord ing it over the class; Jim Jefries was helper in a gymnasium while hom~ age was being paid to Fitzsimmons; Jack Johnson was a roustabout on 1 the docks in Texas while Jefries l held sway; Jess Willard was showed in with Johnson just because he was q big man and the white race looked upon any bulk as the saviour; Jack Dempsey was a wonder as little | fighting man, but he was thought too small for the giant Kansan. There's a heavyweight some place who is waiting for his chance-but | find him.