The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-09-22
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which does not reconcile Itself with
the truth is that Dempsey doesn t
have to be anything like in his
Toledo from in order to attend to
the chore laid out for him next
Thursday evening.
Then, along comes Manager Billy
Gibson out of a legal conference
and he says Tunney has reached his
peak of perfection in preparing for
Dempsey and that his challenger
will be the surprise of the pugilistic
world when he finds himself in the
same acre with Dempsey tomorrow
night.
Now, Of course, one of these gen.
tlemen is wrong. One of the
fighters is going to make a liar
out Of his manager when the action
begins, so it is best to discount
these managerial statements and do
ones own thinking.
Our only interest in speculative
at all on tomorrow nights wicked
business is to give the readers who
haven't had an opportunity to be
on the ground to study conditions
some framework on which to base
their conclusions, now that the
fight is at the threshold of maturity.
1t seems to us to be a fair state
ment of facts to both parties and 10
the aforementioned dear, dear pub
lie to say that there are only about
two ways in which Jack Dempscy
can be beaten. One of them is to
block his heavy punches until Me is
completely tired out and the other
is to stop him cold by hitting him
harder than Carpenter, Gibbons or
Firpo ever dreamed Of doing.
Either of these efforts is a job in
ntself, for Dempsey can stand more
punishment than any fighter on
whom the present record books re-
port, and he is the type who crowds
and advances, and stays UP close
on his opponent in an effort to get
in his deadly "one-two" tattoo which
of his antagonists.
Tunney's One Chance
The only way that Dempsey can
be tied up and outblocked is the
way his sparring partner, Tommy
Loughran, much smaller man
than Dempsey, does, and that is by
sliding in close, inside Jacks
punches, and Tunney is too big a,
man to get away with that, be-
cause Dempsey would be pounding
his back, just below the kidneys and
up around his neck. A smaller
man can get under these punches
with bigger oponent, but large
mans back is just a target for his
rival.
Tunney might be able to block
Jacks blows. but we don't think he
can get inside Jacks punches. Tun-
ney's best chance, according to our
meager viewpoint is to keep his
right arm going straight into Jacks
jaw, beating him to the punch and
then tie him u. A repetition OF this
might, in due time, undo the cham.
pion. 1t is just one of those chances
and one of the ver~ few left open
to the challenger. A right to the
jaw, a tie up by slipping inside to
avoid the body.ripping hooks-and
the trick might be turned in time.
FirpO Recalled
Tunney won't be in the ring
five minutes il he tries to back.
away; for after the second back
ward guide right, as they say in
the Marines, he will be in the
ropes ana the next instant ne VIII
be through them.
Backing away from Dempsey
when the sparring starts at the
going would be pugilistic suicide.
1t is just his meat. He'd spring
on Tunney like a jungle cat and
have him out in the audience
Firpo had Dempsey for an In
slant.
In this fight which has the
world gripped intently in its palm,
Dempsey will be no disappoint-
ment. He will be the Dempsey of
old. He is known quantity,
whereas Tunney is the experiment.
Dempsey will not give his chal-
lenger an instant to study or to
ponder-he will step in to kill"
and he wouldn't be Dempsey If
he didn't.
Carpenters ducking and spar
ring couldn't sustain him. In fact
the Frenchman ducked and bobbed
so much he exposed the back of
his head and neck to huge welts
off the Dempsey gloves. Firpo, a
creature of the wilderness, the
Pampas, Firpo. the gorilla man
with enough might in one of his
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