New Britain herald., 1924-11-22
tBy Joe Wllliamsl

Jack Dempsey is a double barreled 1 fighting machine. The heavyweight champion operates on the theory that if you can hurt a man with one hand you can hurt him twice as much with two. One of Dempsey s hands is just about as effective as | the other.
 My best punch. however the champion tells you, 'ls left hook to the chin. It Is my best punch because l can fire it quicker and from more angles, l use it to soften up my man and then l bring over the right as a finisher." You don't read or hear much about Dempsey's left hook, Always it is his MURDEROCS RIGHT that claims the headlines. pempsey's hook is like the obscure linesman in football who paves the way for a brilliant ball-carrier. It's simple enough to 80 through once the hole is opened IL IS likewise easy enough to drop a plan with a right whohas been severely wounded with a left.
 T knocked out Lovnsky. Mske and Brennan with left hooks says Dempsey. The first knockdown l scored against Willard at Toledo was a left hook. IL was the purch that took all the fight out of him, too. hit Carpenter a left hook to the body that started him for the exit gate"
 At a talker the champion is easy 10 listen to. He knows pugilstiC history and has an absorbing way of coIorng his obserl ations with in formative data.
 Champion Knows Ring History Dempsey reminds you that all the really great heavyweight champions were eXponents Of the left hand in one phase or another,
 There was Corbctt who left-jahbeI he bIoated Sullivan simple; Titz- simmons, whose left to the solar plexrs brought Corbett to he'foor; l,Jeffries who hired Tommy Ryan, i great middleTcight 10 teach him d left hook and then whipped Corbett, Fitz and Sharkey with it, and John son, who combined speed and accur. acy in his left 10 greater degree than any of the big champions. For some reason or other the right hand punch seAns to appeal to i the ina gination Of the fans more 1 han the left" says Dempsey, but the strictly right-handed fighters do i not eot very far, Willard was a 1 right-handcr and 8 good one, but he'd he much better with a left"
 Dempsey likes to shoot the hook upward 10 the chin He steps inside an opponents right-hand lead, pirots on the ball of his left foot and gets all his body weight into the blow a' the proper moment.
 "MuCk Stick" Gave Him Hook
 The champions preference for the hook to the chin probably explains his Nnvarying s,&cess against taller opponents. II may also explain his falIur" 10 drop the smaller Gibbons two summers ago.
 Agaios, the giants such as Wi. lard and Flrpo dempsey is able tc fre Iis p'f 'ol.ry upward, carrying with it a tunbultuous rush of body ponrr.
 AEains' man Of shorter stature su"h as Gibbons, who is liglr heavyweight. this same opportunity obviously does not exist,
 Say do you know where I really got my l"@, hook"" exploded Dcmp. s"y with ciara"tors'ic boyish ab rntn"ss. "W"t. I got it right or the end of MUCK STICK.
 And f YOU ion't happen to know what a muck stick is, its a coa shovel Yes sir. uscd the sami motion in handling my old muci Stlck In the mines that I do now 1T shooting over the hook"
 Dempsey wasn't spoofIng either H. seemed rather hopeful som' mention Of the incident would breal into print.
 The boys usel toswrite that I de yejopcd my left by tying my rlgh hand back of me in a, gymnasium That's lot Of cottage pudding And what's more it's taking a heal of deserving credit away from th, old mucker."