The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-09-20
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OF JACK
Dempsey Confident He'll Es-
cape Upset When He
Meets Gene Thursday.
BY Frank Getty,
Unfted Press Staff Corresnoudent

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2O.-The
rising tide Of revolution in the world
OF sport, which already in this fate
ful year has toppled half a dozen
champions from their thrones. is
sweeping relentlessly upon the
threshold of the once impregnable
fortress where Jack Dempsey, mon
arch OF fisticuffs, holds sway
Before 100000 paying customers in
the big concrete elipse at the Sesoui.
centennial Exposition next Thurs.
day night, King Jack will command
the tide to recede.
Not bein gthe literary party TO
this coming entertainment, Jack has
not read about an ancient monarch.
one King Canute, who tried some
thing of the same sort with the tide
OF his day, and got his feet wet.
SCOTS at Danger
The heavyweight king SCOTS at
the idea of this general cataclysm
of crowned heads involving his own.
His sceptre is his royal fist, with
which he is confident of disposing
of the pretensions Of Gene Tunney.
who represents the proletariat in
this revolution, but who secretly has
aspirations to become king himself.
Dempsey's confidence that he is
one champion who will not go down
to defeat in this year which has
seen such supposedly invincible mon
archs as William T. Tilden and Rob.
ert Jones, Jr., dethroned, is based
upon the condition to which he has
brought himself after three years of
idleness.
Jack Appears Strong
Jack believes he is as good as
ever. Certainly he gives the impress.
sion of being able to batter Gene
Tunney into submission or uncon-
seriousness before the end of ten
rounds. Sizing the two men up
after studying them at their prepa-
rations for this all-important half
hour or less, one can only say that
the champion appears the better
man.
But who would have given George
Won Elm, the fair haired boy from
the Pacific coast, a look-in- with that
stanch master of golf, Bobby Jones?
Certainly the Albanian was a greater
favorite than Jack Dempsey is for
the coming fight. One of his fellow
townsmen was observed sorrowfully
paying a bet of $1,000, which he had
laid against $1,000, that Bobby would
beat George.
1t so happens that this Tunney
person is a thinker, and Gene has
firm conviction that destiny is
working in his corner. When Bill
Tilden. went down to defeat at Forest
Hills. the challenger remarked:
well, what do you know about
that! 1t just goes to show that they
can be beaten, no matter now good
they think they are"
Genes Confidence Grows
And when Bobby Jones succumbed
to the brilliant golf of Won Elm and
lost his amateur title at Baltusrol,
Genes smile broke from ear to ear.
We'll, WE'LL" he chortled, well
just make that three in a week after
I get to Philadelphia"
The experts, the trained seals"
who have visited the camps and
sod their signatures for thousands
of dollars, declare that Tunney is
TALKING through his new fall Fedora,
and that all the tokens favor Demp-
Gey's chances.
There is unanimity Of opinion, out
side Of Stroudsburg, where the chal-
lenger has begun his eleventh-hour
preparations for battle, that Jack ex.
cells Gene in all departments except
defensive boxing.
Tiggerish Attack
They recall the tigerish attack
which Dempsey was wont to unleash
upon his opponents in the days when
he was fighting, and after observing
that the champion is outwardly in
splendid condition. they look for that
same attack to beat Tunney in
few rounds. The three years Of COM
parative idleness have taken some
toll, but not enough to make Gene
Ia match for Jack-so the experts
say.
But the challenger smiles his slow,
confident smile and says
mo champion ever stayed out of
the ring three years and came back
to anything but defeat. I'll win"