Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-06-26
KT[BANE DECLARES
JACK HAS GREATEST
PUNCH IN RING TODAY
+ ormer Featherweight Cham
Plon Says Dempsey Still Has
Blow That Made Him Famous
CHAMP III GREAT SHAPE
lie is Same Old Jack Dempsey,
Greatest of Ring Maulers of
All Times
By JOHNNY KILRANE

SOAA4NlN NiLbA1NG
GREAT FALLS, Mont, June
26.-That same terrible left sock,
the blow that made Jack Dempsey
famous and heavyweight champion
III the world, is just as terrible as
ever.
" And Jack is the same awful
mauler who felled the huge Jess
Willard so many times in the first
round at Toledo. Even the eX-
perts at the ringside can't agree
just how many times it was.
l saw that left hook break the
jaw OF a seVsan-foot giant from
Oklahoma, a fellow named Wray,
the first day l was here, and l
saw 1t land time and again on
Dempsey's other sparring partners
here. | felt sorry for them.
That left has lost none of its
old-time power.
Greatest of Maulers.
Before | came here, | read what
a lot of experts on the scene had
been writing about Dempsey. l was
fully expecting to find the cham
pion had slowed up a bit.
But take it from me, he is the
same old Jack Dempsey, greatest
of ring-maluers of alb times. he
can't pull his blows any more now
than he used to.
Those reports that he is not the
Dempsey Of old are all wrong. He
is in topnotch fighting. trim right
now He's ready to step right in
and fight his best. fight any time
the gong rings.
And he is doing the wise thing by
not OVERRIDING his training, taking
it easy for a day or two and then
sailing at high speed for a good
stiff days workout, That's the
system that will keep him just on
edge up to the day he enters the
ring with Gibbons.
1t Was Nearly Murder.
Say, that left hook connected
with the chin of the giant from
Oklahoma so hard that it would
have been sure murder to let that
practice bout go on. l stopped it,
even though the big fellow was
in there putting up his fists after
Dempsey and I helped him to his
feet But | was afraid he would
be killed if Dempsey ever hit him
again, so | called a halt.
Jacks on his toes every minute,
Out there refereeing l could see
every move he made. From the
moment he first stepped up and
put up his mitts to make the first
swing, l knew all the famous
Dempsey power was there.
He was standing there loose and
shifty and ready to shoot from
any angle. It's his left that is his
3 great asset. If he could use his
Bright as well as he does his left,
it would be sheer murder to let
anybody get into the same ring
with him.
But no matter what angle ne
shoots that left from, it has the
force of a battering ram behind
it. don't see how his sparring
partners stand the gaff, for he does
not know how to hold back his
blows. Those little fellows there
to help him speed up have to take
some terrific wallops,
None More Square.
From the minute he steps into
the ring he means business. He
never says a word. He just fights.
Outside the ring he smiles and
is a great fellow to be with But
he becomes a fighting machine the
instant he sets foot in the ring
The smile leaves his face and new
err returns until he gets out through
the ropes after it's all over.
He's one of the fairest, squar-
est fighters the game ever has
known. But he's there to fight