, 1923-07-01
BOTH MEN KNOCK
OFF HEAVY WORK
AS Time NEARs
Champion Confident and
So Is Challenger.
BY R NEWMAN.

pherralia n the stage is all set for
the big fuss Wednesday afternoon for
the heavyweight championship OF the
world And what a scramble those
two battlers r expected to put upl
Probably not since the day that Jim
Corbett and old Ruby Bob Fitzsim-
mons staged their memorable scrap at
Carson City. more than twenty-five
years age, have two fighters been
o evenly matched for the heavy.
weight title.
} OF course. Dempsey viii enjoy many
advantages W. Tommy. and on the
SsPs should boat the St Paul entry.
bat Gibbons must be reckoned with
every ztep of the way.
, Chanpson the Heaviest
Tie fact that Gibbons will have to
spot the champion several pounds in
weight and quite an advantage in
youth and strength isn't disturbing the
challenger to any extent. Gibbons
ays he will beat Dempsey and is just
aching to get started against the maui
Ing fsllov from Salt Lake.
&c thscs you are for a starter. Demp-
~ L. the champion. with nearly every
thing In his favor. and, of course,
E&Oulo AiAen IN lTOHl OIL 1lDDOnb. buI
Is Dempsey the great fighter that he
was when he was a challenger for the
tils? Is Dempsey half the fighter thai
he WIS h day that he knocked over
thsg giant Jess Willard at Toledo?
We don't think he Is within 20 per
cant of the man that sent the Kansas
farmer crashing down to defeat under
a tsrribls avalanche Of blows. What
q great fighting machine was Dempsey
that dayi
Terror IS Challenger.
Dempsey as the challenger was 4 ter
ror. He probably could have beat any
man In the world the day that willard
was toppled over. He was after a goal
that day and didn't care what hap
psned Just a ripping, tearing fool.
there wasn't anything that could stop
him. Now, he Is probably a different
kin Of a fighter.
AZ q champion Jack In a more eau
tioos worker - for that matter he
NIGHT be called timid as against the
rushiHs boy he wal at Toledo In this
ncrap with Gibbons Dempsey will not
tear In to sweep his challenger out of
the ring right OF the bat. On the con-
trary. we rather expect that Dempsey
win along In most careful. eau
tous manner. figuring that II he
makes one miscue 1t will cost him his
title, Inc it is that championship
Dempsey will have in mind at every
step.
He knows that one mistake against
q bo1ar and hitter lie Tom Gibbons
will cost him that coveted crown and
Dempsey also knows that the day he
fakcr thu Hnn and has - x1nf1 chat
crovn he In through for good with the
boxing racket So 1t is that Dempsey
viii scarcely be the same fighting ma
chine against Gibbons that he was
against Willard
Dempsey Favorits.
While the dope figures Dempsey as
the probable winner. this man Glib
boos must be given more than an put
s&6e chance The boosters for Gibbons
hgurs hat Dempsey has never knocked
over a real good man but by the same
tekea the shouters for the champion
will tell o that Gibbons never beat
q good man In his life and that as he
es~kn't beat men like Harry Greb
~ other little fellows he will have
a. awful time trying to lick a fighter
Lbs Jack Dempsey.
Getting away from all that we think
the boy who gets over the nrst good
azAck in this coming row win carry OF
The pennant For the most part the
championship fights are invariably set
tied when the first good crack goes
over. Gibbons and Jack r good hard
httters and you can go and bet that
do with settling the issue than any
thing elise
Gibbons Cleverest Boxer.
II cieverness is to play an important
part IN this quarrel. 1 look 10 Gibbons
TO win; although Dempsey is far from
being a sucker when 1t comes to de-
Tending himself. However. It Is the old
vaIiop hat plays the big part in
battles of this kind We have watched
both make ready. It looks like a great
fighter against a great boxer. Demp-
sey is the fighter. while Gibbons is
the boxer. Although Gibbons combines
both ekill and a hard wallop in either
hand. he is not the puncher that Demp-
sey iE-
Gibbons might not have the terrible
sting in his shots that the champion
has. but he socks hard enough TO top
ple over the biggest Of them any time
he gets 1t over right.
We know that Gibbons has mapped
out a campaign with which he hopes
to lick Dempsey. We know he has
been waiting for years to get this bang
at Dempsey. and we know he believes
that there is nothing to It. Tom Glib
bons really believes that the fight
won't even be close. lie has often re-
marked that Dempsey Is 4 e'nch to hit.
and he has often said that when no
hits Dempsey the hhew VIII come to
a close.
Dempsey Camp Confident.
That Is what We all having some
confidence in yourself on the eve OF
the most important battle OF his ca
rear. At the Dempsey. camp in Great
Falls where the big champion did most
OF hik preliminary work for this jam
with The Minnesota boy. they think
that the whole thing is a Joke. They
can't Z this fellow Gibbons with a
telescoJa.
The champion has never been given
much 10 braFFndocio, but this time he
thinss that he dropped into a soft