The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-06-28
GATE CRASHER IS) SATISFIED WITH JACKS CONDITION
Pegler Says Champ Is Bit "loggy," But Is
 Improving
By WESTBROOK PEGLER tLeased Wire To The ARe.HeraId


 GREAT FALLS, Mont. June 27.- Under the solemn scrutiny of One Eyed Connelly's solo lamp, which has seen so much for so little in 20 years of itinerant life in the fight camps, Jack Dempsey will put in four more afternoons of boxing on the broad Missourfs fickle banks.
 T told him." MT. Connolly said, as he gently chafed his schoulder blades against the corner of stucco build ing and buttered his face with an ex- pression of dreamy bliss, T told him was absolutely satisfied with his condition and I am, only the hell of 1t is, he seems to be absolutely satis fled with mine"
 MT. Connolly associated himself with the millionaire magnate's camp the day he came here, and being something of an art lover. has been selling photo studies of Dempsey and Tom Gibbons to the crowd out under the trees in the afternoon. while Dempsey cures the urge of pugilism in beefy young plainsmen by the magic method of laying on hands.
 Great pal. Jack is." MT. Connolly said. Big and gYuff, you know. but I bot he'd give me his shirt. Anyway I'm going to ask him. because I got to have a shirt. A man should always have a spare. You aren't putting out any shirts, are you?'
 Net so Good. Jack.
 R. Connolly bethought himself of his art and made an off-tackle play through the customers. Mir. Dempsey detached himself from the business cares of his Utah coal properties and the Notation of stock therein, long enough to come down under the trees and do some lick and promise train ing. At his heels came a various com pany of young men in gym jerseys with bandaged hands and bunged-up self-conscious silence down the slope to the crumbling abuttment of the old brewery beside which the ring Is pitched.
 "The champion. will now do his stuff" said MT. George Godfrey the carbon -complexioned heavyweight sparring partner. with a terseness that might commend itself to more famous orators than he.
 Perhaps tho affairs of the coal mines weigh heavily on the young business mans mind. Perhaps any thing. for a number of stories have drifted along on the cross-currents of gossip concerning Dempsey's earlier training methods. At any rate he has on some occasions boxed rather poorly and seemed to be in the condition which fighters de- scribe as "loggy." After a round or two of fighting, this lethargy some times can be shrugged off and it needn't signify scandalous neglect or serious deterioration.
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 Jack Is Sleeping.
 Whatever may have been Demp sey's conduct in the evenings a couple of weeks ago, he certainly at- tends to his sleep nowadays and ap- pears to be In excellent shape. Dempsey Is not in the wonderful condition that he reveled in at Jersey City and Toledo. nor does he glow with health. as Gibbons does under the sun on tho prairie up at Shelby. But he is strong and vital, and probably will outweigh Gibbons by 20 pounds, notwithstand- ing official statements of their re- spective poundage. for Gibbons Is only a light heavyweight.
 MT. Connolly floated back with his post cards in a mood to abandon art. He said he would go into tho gin business if he could get some gin.