The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-22


/ didn't have any cold / Just
naturally lost my lungs and every
thing roofing for him 70 win that
fight Couldn't you hear mel
asked Jack.
40. Babe . be rays. s.I couldn't
hear you but saw you down
there ana waved To you twice
remembered the waving all
right When the big bull pushed
him through the ropes 1 ti1ouaht
he was coming out "a shake hands
with me nearly died or frir1ff.
4 just shut my eyes ana tried 10
pray. When 4 opened nv eyes tie
champ was back III the ring and
my foot was clear through Joe
ks1al1's new winter fedora
Jack asks me- g IL down ana
have bre lkfask never
breakfast but lust filen the d.5n1
pens and IA comes the cham
pl0n.D morning bite K0u on&1ik
tCsye seen i And tsIIg nbS.Tf
giving that boy aertIces Eirs{
swell looking fellow calIie Is
ma nom his nee 4 stffD1I ne
ne owned the hotel Is xSSs tIie
eAlAe1 steward Behind him "a GEI
t1y0 walters wing the Cliall
Don = sk0yat 1Ket lkkast allle.
There was enough cIass fcr Il
Eeyen-cpurse feed. but when 1 tooir
g LOOK at what he'd ordered / near.
~ GEO laughing. Imagine II:
sIle slice oK cagaba melon.
3 One dish Of bran.
One cup Of Coffee
EirpO eating haIf heef 4 y s Ts,.,~
and judging by the resiIIta 3. & 49, 80
Polo Grounds, Rliesa 5000 l,es - -
right dope on eating
Some one sends ont ,f0r : ea,,,e...
man and Jack and / sat t1lere' fssII<.
Ing on all kinds of slIh1ecfs F7ss@
2 great baseball fan. Ar1d hrII1e..e
me, ne pulled for me when 8 ~
.of other fellows were Rettfnr lsissa
oI cold. AT the last world ee1rIee
Jack was right behind home rIare
roofing like q Yankee sfockhoIder.
tired to show my appreciation ~
putting down my dough two mon Frs
ago Tor ringside seat. And -
the big night I got up there holIrs
before the champ arrived.
AZ the hotel he kant taIldnr
baseball. Tho only tI1ines Ile aoi6
a0Out the fight Were booefa fop
lsiIpO. He calls him tI1e pnnneSf
fellow he ever met, including Car-
pentier.
Look at the sinner JaeI,. sal,g.
Babe. that's the first black eve
anvf1nf9v axna,s 6,,..-. - -. y ~ -
sol II from Firp0, the hoy thnt
some Of the wise ones said n. = !. I
set-up."
Dempsey admits, without a,,v.
cheap alibis, that F.irpo HIT him
and hurt him. He Is sorry anyone
would think he Intentionally III
Eirpo after the bell. ne Rrabbed8
me by the arm and saws. ssfIala.
inaan my life I never did anvthiIlg
unfair to q man intentionally.
Either In the ring or out. !"
And he didn't that Friday niellt.
Say that boy doesn't have to7 hit
after the bell. Between bella II
plenty. Perhaps Ii the excitennent
and noise, he did alp q coupI0s az
jabs. But OF several hundred pres
emit not one single sport writer ms
said those blows had the slightest
bearing on the big finish.
Why, I've often spiked opposing
baseball players In excitinR uitua.
lions when I certainly never IN
tended to.
You know. after seelng that
fight and then talking to lack i i
got lot Of ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, II
sure proves fellow Is never
really licked tin he admits e Nm
self. il ever q champ kissed HIS
title gOOdby, Dempsey did when
he landed out there on those tyne
writer's. No one an the WOEld
could help him out 81 his tPOu.
bles but himself. Won know. some.
how, wllen everything IN the
world seems 10 be AGAINST 8 Eel.
low, he generally gets one final
burst Of strength and hope.
I've been through 1t. Last world
series I was Just az near knocked
out as Jack Dempsey was laying
In the laps Of the newspapers men.
The only reason redeemed myself
and the only reason Jack turned
defeat into victory was because
both OF us. when things locked
than We appeared to the world.
/ don't mean to compare my
baseball comeback to Jacks rally
and victory against FirpO. Nv
present work on the ball hel0 is
the result Of q long uphill climb.
whereas Jacks greatest victory
took place in less than Z minute.
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