The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-14
Machine Cunning Good Occupation
 Beside Sparriing.
By WESTBROoK PEGLER Leased Wire to The Age-HeraId)

w HlIE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
 SARATOKA, LAKE, N Y, Sept. 1c. Speaking as one who has sampled both, Walter Lodge, holding the un happy appointment of official re- ceiver in Jack Dempsey,s camp, would say that between Dempsey's knuckles and the bullets from a ma chine gun, it's just about 8 standoff.
 Walter had the misfortune to grow to a height of six feet three and an appropriate width and was gradually crowded Into the prize fighting busi- ness in which he has prospered only slightly.
 There are two classes of heavy weight fighters-those who made plenty of money and hire sparring partners, and those who make very little money and hire out to those who make a great deal. Thus Walter finds himself along towards the end of the most prosperous fight season if all, still smearing his aches with liniment and still plugging along for very moderate fee as the chief sparring partner of Jack Dempsey.
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 WHs A Machine Gunner.
 Lodge was machine gunner in the war, taking to the boxing busi- ness after demobilization in the be- lief, which he has since abandoned, that prize fighting must be a fine line for a 200-pound machine gunner. He was clipped In both legs by shrapnel, and when he came into the fight business was much more Ia miliar with the odor of ether and antiseptics than with the training camp smell of beef brine and other applications known by the general name of rub stuff"
 He has been knocked out and the gallery customers have yelled quit ter" at him, but the lieutenant who was his immediate commander In France recently plunged into print with a fine letter to a western sport editor in which he said that Lodge was no such thing, as he was in a position to know.
 Lodge sagged against pillar or the hotel porch Saturday afternoon gazing off at the lake with smile of dreamy joy on his disarranged features. for 1t was raining and Jack Kearns had just told him of his re- prieve for the day. There would De no boxing, Kearns said, because Dempsey was about as fit as possi- ble and a workout in the rain woulo he only an Invitation to culture or influenza to move in and begin busi- ness. "Oh, that's all right, Doc, the farmer said, you needn't apologize to me-"
 Machine Cunning Good Iraae'
 He drifted back conversationaliy to France and those wounds Tn ms legs, and suddenly returned to togas lake as twinge caught him | und erf the right ribs, where Demp- sey had sunk left hook two oays ago Yes. the farmer thought ma chine gunning wasn't so pau' i1 S caught few over in France, anu they hurt, but those punches oi Dempsey's were different; a,d,,+ mean
 Of course the farmer dldn mean that a machine gun bullet would not de~~a mora decisive job than leit hook from Dempsey if you caught It iust right, But soldering, even III war. when you took 1t as oay III and day out proposition, was III ni' recollection: no to verse Ss terminated rnan teS
 Lodge and Jimmy DeForest former trainer of both Dempsey ana Luis Angel Firpo, were members ol q t1e circle that spent some time on the verandas of the Dempsey cottase reading aloud to one another rum | the-lives of the presidents 4ho 1aEorest has become one of of the rawer literati, having recently turheu fToro larrups to letters, and has Wrlt- +ao several words of his new pooh already, wild Wilr' Lyons One Eyed" Connelly and Kearns com, nieted the little study group on tns a pnrch pc1h Connolly received several se- iections from his favorite nteratone' inc Pennsylvania time taple, and and nIU,,d Willie" held forth now anu anu .asin with "reminiscences of his carry o"s SsWiid Will" claims that he is tne sacond white child born in Texas ana @ seGo"I niU b,s ohivairy has deterred him iron from claiming the highest honor: ono and li seems that the other was hean wild Will's" motto mas
 The The 500 ralnbound visitors to 'ne ne | art heean departing early, 's G tbera were rumors that 'Wlla VIII intended making speech.
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