The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-11-03

rounds, which was the distance he
must go with willard.
He first took on Terry Keller for
three rounds. Knocked One Round
Davis out toward the end of the
| second round, knocked Jack Ross
out in two minutes and fifty Sec
onds Of fighting, and then he and
the Jamaica Kid went into a whale
OF bout for three rounds, and the.
last three were with Bill Tate, the,
human replica Of Willard.
he gratified me in every way as
to speed, wind and endurance, and
from that day was confident /
was handling a coming champion.
There were q great many spies
coming around-our camp from the
Willard grand" headquarters and
instituted an hour OF secret train
ing that they never got onto until
the day before the fight.
Instead Of sending Dempsey out
on the road in the morning. I
sent dummy" out with three
OF the camp retinue, the dummy
] wearing Dempsey's sweater and
hat and being of his size and gen.
eral appearance.
Meanwhile Dempsey and I, en-
tirely by ourselves, would go into
the big tent and on the big bag I
would rehearse him in the three
blows with which / figured he
could knock Willard out. These
blows to be a right to the heart,
a high 'left-hand hook to the jaw
with right cross, short right
hook that would travel only about
four inches.
Dempsey would then take road
work after dark, and on these runs
l had him carry a dumbell in his
LETT hand, swinging it above his
head as he ran.
The purpose Of this was to teach
him to use a high left because CT
Wizards height. It is the instinct
OF man to strike at about his own
height, and for Jacks left to be eff
fective he would have to hook high.
know that Wizards spies got
nothing out Of our camp, but on the
other hand Wizards camp was only
half mile away, and he was training
on an uncovered platform. /
straddled the peak of the roof of
our cottage at o'clock every after
noon when he began his boxing and
with pair OF field glasses spotted
him.
/ saw that he and his handlers
had taken for granted the news
paper stories that Jack would
rush him the instant they got i'm
the ring, and his main effort, I
saw through my glasses, was be-
ing directed to training a straight
left, taking advantage of his
reach to hold off a Dempsey rush.
He was figuring a straight left to
be followed by a crushing right
uppercut. OF course these
observations proved of great
value In our subsequent plan Of
battle.
On June II we gave a dinner at
the camp to the newspaper men and
prominent citizens of Toledo, includ-
ing Mayor Shrieber, Safety Director
Wall, A. d. Thatcher, Major Cusi1-
man Rice and De Witt Fisher, sec.
/ cetary to the mayor. We prepared
a little surprise for them.
| One idea. of course, had been that
Dempsey was pretty light to fight
Willard. At this time his weight
was actually 189 pounds, but ten
minutes before the dinner Dempsey
drank six bottles of beer one after
the other and ate six bananas and
then drank six more bottles of
| beer.
This delicate meal, which might
sound as If it were a dangerous enc
to allow a man in training, but
really threatened no harm, caused
Dempsey to tip the scales when
stripped in the presence of the
guests-a brand new Toledo scale
presented him by the mayor-at
201 pounds.
1t may be supposed that beer and
bananas had caused Dempsey's
abdomen to swell. but this was not
the case at the time, for the diges-
tive processes had hardly set in, so
he looked fit as a fiddle about the
waistline as he did generally.
There were great expressions of
establishment and the news travelled
fast to Wizards camp, and I guess
caused considerable uneasiness there.
AS soon as the company was gone
Dempsey took a laxative and was
none the worse for the joke.
For a man with q championship
battle in sight, Dempsey sh0wGd
at no time any Of the uneasiness
or fits Of depression that come
uDOn men In Rigorous TRAINING