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PHELAN OPPOSITION
MENACES BIG BOUT

NEW YORK, August 9.-COl. John
j. Phelan and his 165th Infantry Regi-
ment, the famous old "Fighting Sixty
NINTH" rumbIed into town yesterday,
after two weeks of training at Camp
Smith, and with him came rumblings
unfavOrable to the Jack Dempsey
Gene Tunney worlds heavyweight
title battle. proposed by Promoter
Tex Richard for the Yankee Stadium
rn September l6.
Col. Phelan, who is chairman Of the
license committee. disappeared with
out exposing himself to Interrogation
on the subject.
However, the prospect of the fight
being banned here doomed more
strongly than at any time since the
action OF the State Athletic Commits.
sion I'm voting to In approval Of
no official information could he OBJ
tanned. 1t was reported from n source
close to the authorities charged with
administration of the boxing law here
that the license committee, consisting
Of Col. PheIan and ID. Walker Wear
Of BinghalntOll, will refuse to sane
tiOn the match by the simple expe-
dient Of vetOing Dempsey's applica-
tion for licenSe.
Tunney, 1t was reported. will OBJ
tain his license, the challenger having
adjusted what differences existed be-
tween himself and the committee, but
IL was said that Col. Phelan and Wear
would decline to license Dempsey as
u boxer in this State OH the ground
that in ignoring the challenge Of
Harry Wills, the commissions ac-
cepted challenger for the title, Demp-
sey violated cardinal rule Of the
State Athletic Commission and ex-
posed himself to disciplinary action.
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famous boxing expert. since dead was
so impressed with Fulton that be bet
on Fred to stop my battler. Fulton
was a 2-to-1 favorite. lie was sure to
knock out Dempsey in a round or two.
1t was g. hot afternoon. The ball
park was packed. They were still com
ing in when the bell rang for the first
round. Many had rushed down from
the Empire race meeting at Yonkers.
n. Y. after the fourth race to he at
the ringside. the fight being set for
$50. MANY OF these race goers had
made record trips from the track in
New York to the ring. I'm sorry to
say, I met many Of my best friends
coming in as I was rushing Dempsey
back through the crowd, to his dress.
ing room.
He whipped Fulton in just four
punches and he wanted to apologize
for having missed my orders by three
socks. He put Fulton down on his
back where he wriGgled like a stuck
pig. unable to get up. 1t was a. cork
ing win. But it had its knockers.
rfr
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MISS EDERLE'S FEAT
DISCOURAGES OTHERS

Bv the Associate Press.
CAPE GRIS-NEZ, France. August
9.-The new Channel swimming cham
pion. Gertrude Ederle of New York.
by her recOrd-breaking crawl" voy-
aye across the waterway, has dis
couraged further attempts by other
aspirants to try the swim.
1t IL looked on as almost hopeless
TO attempt blower the time she ma de
on Friday IN swimming from the
French to the English coast in 1412
hours.
Lillian Cannon, the Baltimore girl,
who Is among those in training. now
Is undecided whet her to essay an at
tempt to cross the Channel.
Messa ges Of congratulation con-
tinue to flow in from all parts Of the
world. At least 20 offers have been
received from music halls. but Ger
trude announced that she would de-
cline them all. saying: Il have some
thing better in view"
Miss Ederle will leave today for
Stuttgart. Germany. spending few
day with her grandmother. She will
return to Paris for a day or two. go
to Boulogne to say farewell to the
friends she made while training. and
then embark for home at Cherboung
on the Berengaria, August II.
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CAPITAL SWIMMERS
SCORE IN BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE. Md. August p
Washington swimmers took three
frst places as well as accounting Tor
- points on seconds and third here
vesterday IN the Bay Shore Swimming
Clnhs open meet
Florence Skaddinc OF Capitol Atm
letic Club and Raphael Edmonston OF
George Washington University re-
pcated their feats Of Saturday by nm
ishing ahead of the fields in the 100
ward breast stroke events.
Clifford Sanford of Central High
beat out AL LYMAN OF the host club
and c. Ii. Hunter. an unattached en-
trv from the Capital. in the fancy dive
for men.
Miss Skadding placed second in the
fancy dive for women: lone Whaler
finished runner.up in the SO and 200
ward free style events; Alma Whaier
got third in the 100-yard breast stroke
and Belmar Shepley was third In the
bh-yard free style.
protest registered by Maryland
Swimming Club over the decision
given in the mems relay event leaves
the winner of the meet undecided.
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against q nEnter DeCOnllHE u HcdNN
weight hampton, vet the hunch that
stuck with me.
kept plugging along. learning this
trick Of the game and that trick. and.
to my own surprise, I began to whip
men whom / supposed might prove
too tough or experienced for me.
Hands Cause Him Trouble.
The gap closed little az I con
tinued to win one fight and then
another, but it continued to he 1oo,-
600 to l against me for quite a while
because my hands were giving me-
lots of trouble and 1t looked for
while as If l might have to quit the
ring.
But finally I changed managers
Billy Gibson took over my affairs.
The first thing he did was to send
me to the country to chop wood and
develope my wrists and hand muscles.
Then he brought me back TO town
and said:
YOU'RE having trouble with your
hands because you don't know how TO
hit a true blow. This is how"
Billy gave me a lesson. lie gave me
q few more. / did as he told me about
hitting From that city to this my
hands have never bothered me. IL
wasn't brittle bones that had been
causing the trouble; 1t was improper
hitting.
Gibson taught me some tricks I'm
defense. lie made me change my
style somewhat. Patiently, carefully.
he gave me helpful hints. He made
a rinGman out of me.
After which Billy turned me loose.
7 met the third-raters for brief spell
SO as to get myself tuned up. Ther
I took the second -raters-and polished
them off. After which Billy issued
an open challenge to ANY Of Demp-
sey's challengers" Tom Gibbons &C.
cepted, so did Barley Madden.
knocked them out.
Climb on the scales now" ordered
Gibson. did. The dial swung to 1872
and the measuring machine recorded
my height as feet |.
"Great" said Rlly. Taller than
Dempsey few pounds lighter-but
you'll bo heavier than the champion
before the year is out. You're ready.
Now Wen go after Dempsey"
The match has been made. I am
to fight Il battle with hte heavyweight
championship of the world at stake.
The old hunch that told me I'd some
day fight the champion was right.
And the same hunch that has lived
through five years tells me again
and again:
You'll beat Dempsey; you'll be
| champion"
I'll tell you why and how In later
articles.
tCopyright 1929
Evening star., 1926-08-09
TENNIS TEAM TESTS
TO BE BEGUN TODAY

BY the Associated Prees.
NEW YORK. August e.--The coun
tryis foremost tennis players, includ
ing William r. Tilden. Cd, the ma
tional champion, were gathered at
Forest Hills today for the United
States Davis Cup trials.
The tests will continue through to-
morrow and Wednesday. following
which the national team will be
named for the challenge round to be
played in Philadelphia, September
9, 10 and II.
Along with Tilden in the competi-
ton are William Nj. Johnston, twice
national champion and veteran Davis
Cup player: Vincent Richards inter
national and Davis Cup player; Ed
ward G.. Cha ndler, PAcin2 CoaSt sen
satiOn: Cranston Holman. California
star; George NJ. Lott, Chicago entrant;
Alfred H. Chaplin. jr.. Of Springfield,
Mass: II. Norris Williams. twice
American champion. captain and vet
eran of Americas Davis Cup team.
and Lewis y. White of Texas.
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When the war was over had won
the heavyweight championship or the
Marine Corps. Also l had to my credlt
A. victory over Bob Martin, who later
won the interallied championship.
sailed for home determined to go back
to my old Job in the merca ntile game.
I didn't think being a good fighter In
the ARMY. meant an awful lot. so far
az q. lob in the professional fight game
was concerned.
Rut INV friends thought otherwise.
They told me that l was good enough
to whip a lot of the dub light heavles
and heavies. They said l was good
They got me a manager, ana ne got
me a fight To my surprise, Won II
"a silv. got a few more fights. ana
I won. BY which time | decided that
I'd stick to the fight racket Tor a Wnl'e
anywav, because it was better payi
than. clerking around. and fnaly l
was given a spot. as one OF tho pre-
liminary fighters to the Dempsey
Dentier battle in Jersey city. back In
1921.
No one did any great cheering over
NV showing against Soldier Jones
that day. True enough, l stopped hlrn'
In seven rounds; but il L had been
any great shucks, 1 would nave
stopped him in one round. not seven
Well. they put on the big fght. L
watched 1t. saw Dempsey take the
hest that Carpenter had to give, and
then go on and beat the Frenchman TO
a crushed pulp. ! saw this great
champion. not vet at the peak of his
career. merely toy with the greatest
lighter that Europe ever produced.
saw all that-and then the wild hunch
me.
II was nothing more nor less than
that some day Id he standing up and
Dempsey would be down and 10
would finally sound and I'd be the
| champion Of the world.
Novice Watches the Master.
Dempsey was terrific hitter. a
| super.man at taking It; he was a
clever boxer: fast as flash of light
ming: a smooth, frictionless worker.
possessed then Of about everything
| that fighter could have, including
| Youth And well, was novice.
I could hit and I could take it-but
| that was about all. And the worst
of it was that when l did hit l didn't
know the knack of doing 1t without
| hurting my hands.
And. on top of that. I was then
| far too small for Dempsey. l was
| about feet 10 or 50 at that time
and bulked no more than 10. ! had
| no great reputation beyond that as Il
marine champion and Il fairish sort
| Of preliminary performer. Between
| Dempsey and myself then was a
mighty, mighty gap. It's said that
| the chances are about 100000 to- l
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| had been pounding Willard so
hard in an effort to smoke him out
that he began to make threats
That was the temper | wanted IN
him. When you get the champion
cat scratching you've got him on
the run every time and Willard was
no different than all those who had
gone before him. He was bitter in
his denunciations OF me.
Dempsey was all OK" but that
fellow kearns-well he was mo
good" That was the way less sum
med it up ! had got on Wizards
nerves SO much that he announced
that he was coming ont TO fight the
real contender, Fred Fulton. Oh ho !
So that was it. Going TO side track
my man. eh2 Well there's one way
TO break up idetracking and that
is to whip the man the champion
names as his next opponent.
must beat Willard TO it. ! got
on the Job with a hundred different
angles working. We must get Fulton
and knock him off. If Willard had
honored him by naming him as the
official cballenper then 1t was enough
Evening star., 1926-08-09

hands That's only one of the tricks
of the game l taught Dempsey.
Weber and Curley put the bout on
at the ball park in Harrison, n. j.,
and 1t couldn't have been staged in
a better setting SO far as Dempsey
and his tanned body was concerned.
His arms were almost black, and
where his little bathing suit upper had
covered his body. the skin was more
or less white.
Fulton Is Scared Stiff.
The optical illusion of those big sun
burned arms ard shoulders attached
to his white torso almost made Fulton
faint when he saw Dempsey robe
fall carelessly from his body. We had
Fulton licked before he started. He
actually walked around Dempsey get
ting an eyeful from every angle. He
was frightened stiff. The contrasts be-
tween the Drowned shoulders and
arms as against the white body that
had been protected by his bathing
suit was too much for Fred. One thing
more remained TO be done. must
make Dempsey fight harder and fast
er than he had ever done in all his
life. / had drummed that into him at
the Camp. When ! saw Fulton's tail
curling | told Jack to have look for
himself.
He's cooked now. He's washed up
and ready to go. You just give him
what YOU gave Morris at Buffalo only
faster and harder. A feint and a hook
To the jaw with the left 1t will he
over in a punch" Dempsey didn't
have to he told twice. He was A bird
at following the cue. Give it TO him
and you could sit tight on his going
through with II.
On the day of the hght every writer
picked Fulton to win. Bat Masterson,
Evening star., 1926-08-09

Ring I.ardner. who has recently &C
cepted the chairman nship Of the pub
lieitv committee OF the thrlsty Ma
thewson Memorial Foundation. an
nounces from New York headquarters
that the managers Of teams. who are
being asked 10 cooperate in building
memorials to the great pitcher. are
reepcndinr with enthusiasm.
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LINCOLN FIELDS TRACK
STARTS 3O-DAY MEET

CHICAGO, August 9 P.-Trek of
Fields race track, near Crete, 80 miles
south of here, for the inaugural of a
30-day turf season began today.
The racing plant was built at a
cost of 81 900 900 by a group of Chi
cago and Kentucky sportsmen.
The feature Of today's opening pro
gram of seven races was the S. 900
Joliet stakes for two-year-old fillies.
Hartfortis nOsed out the Coca Colas !.
-
Evening star., 1926-08-09

] felt that | was wasting time and
Willard might get hep to our plot
to beat him to Fulton. He had made
his choice and that was the big thing.
II was Fulton and I was more de-
termined than ever that Fulton would
be our meat.
What was the best thing to do.
didn't ponder long. / took the next
train 10 New York We landed and
the ballvhoo started all over again.
went 10 Lawrence Weber and Jack
Clrlev @ nd thev We're interested right
off the reel They'd get 1he match.
they said. If Fulton WAS agreeable.
Fred fell like "A ton of brick. He didn't
know what he had picked up in his
travels had my MAY. of whipping
that bird. l knew Dempsey would
knock him off.
Another Of Kearn's Tricks.
Weber and Curley got Fulton sign.
ed. We went to Long Branch. n. J..
and established training quarters.
Any place by the water. Another Sc
cret Of making the other fellows see
things. | had made 1t Il plan always
to send Dempsey into the ring as
sun.burned and brown as it is possi-
BILE for man TO get. 1t has strange
effect on the other fellow when he
sees his man all Drowned up.
| don't know what it is but there is
mental and physical fear of man
who is tanned and sun-tinted. III
leave that to any one who has seen
Dempsey stripped for action. You'd
hesitate about tacklins man of the
sea or cowboy. wouldn't you? You
know vou would. Don't know what
i, jS h,,t knou II sra red Willard
Carpenter. Brennan, Firpo and
Miske. The tanned champion had
them bufYaloed before he put up his
Evening star., 1926-08-09
IN SHAPE TOF|GHT
NOW, HE ASSERTS
Declares That He Will Never
Lose His Title for Lack
of Fitness.
BY JACK DEMPSEY.

A FTER three years of being
n labeled a physical wreck"
~ "fstic has been and few
"A things OF the same sort. the
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ees Tales Condition 7uney Has Hnch He VIII Win Title
GENE HAS CHERISHED FOND
AMBITION FOR FIVE YEARS
CHALLENGER NowsHas Filled Out So That He Matches
Dempseyin Size-Learning to Hit Properly. =
Corrected Irouble<with S'Brittle'' Hands.
BY GENE TUNNEY.

~ I'VE wears ago that day would stand
near PROSTATE of Jack Dempsey and hear myself
The wnner-and the champion-Gene Tunney OF New
York" IT,. .so.rsL ,..;o,s"
chance of coming into reality 1t h5s
September
that ambition that to me back on the
j of 1921. =. .u,;..
foreign the thought now OF becoming Dictator
,,l the We used TO have itt
loose Some OF the boys did some boxing
somehow and because
I Iooku nhoXiuR
Evening star., 1926-08-09
BY JACK kEARNS.
FROM THE INSIDE

the Southwest knocking number
Of the shouting the Willard
wv match the people seemed be with
| bayhooed Dempsey It's
the It's been that the
! always the
him the
that Dempsey has learned
what mean to be bounded by cfalengers
devoted keeping Dempsey
PUBLIC and keeping the bayhoo 1t took work 1t all
work and play
travels brought back Chicago and while there draft
We heard nothing that subject for
Evening star., 1926-08-09

smack him down That would be duck soup made my plans plans
loco Chuck Dempsey with that big must be mad Fulton had
OF good Why chance Dempsey
there ready Wizards
had whipping Fulton III that later
match
of Ranch tried promote the match i'll several
States. but time he BY
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"cREScENT LIMITED"
SETS ON-TIME RECORD

The Crescent Limited, the South
ern Railways aIl-Pullman, de luxe
train, running between New York
washington. Atlanta and New Or
leans, made an average on-time rec
ord during the first year Of its
operation of more than So per cent
according to figures just compiled.
The records show that the train
was on time 355 times out OF its
365 south-bound trips and 348 times
out of its 365 north bound trips. In
only four instances each way was
the train more than an hour late,
the delay being due to track OBJ
structions or waiting on connec-
tions. The other delays ranged
from Ii to SIS minutes, and were
occasioned by minor difficulties on
Southern or connecting lines.
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FONCK CERTAIN
Of SUCCESS

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N. r. April
Ser feel absolutely confident OF
the success of the flight" declared
Can't, Rene Fonck, the French ace,
today after an inspection of the tri-
motored Sikorsky biplane In which
he will attempt a transatlantic
flight, from New York to Paris,
during the latter part Of June. The
machine is now about 80 per cent
completed.
Captain Fonck said he had not
vet decided who the two members
of the crew will be--he has said
only three men, including himself,
are to go on the flight-but at
Roosevelt Field the feeling pre-.
walls that either Capt. Homer Berry
or Roscoe Turner, test pilots, win
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FORUM STARTS WIDE
SETTER MUSIC CAMP lcIl

NEW YORK. April e. nation
wide movement Tor better music Il
the purpose 81 the ''Music Forum. "
ORGANIZED today ct ! meeting 81
members Of the American League
az professional Women, o. which
Mrs. william Vaughn Moody, Of
Chicago, Il president.
T.rfi,es. BALE. o. New York. was
alarfed chairman Of the forum end
Mrs Nina s. Adams, Of New
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FLETCHER ASKS ITALIANS
TO FREE YOUNG ABBOTT

ROME, April 29.-American Am
bassador Fletcher has requested the
Italian government to release John
Adams Abbott, of Boston, who Is
held awaiting trial on charges Of
uttering insulting remarks against
Fascism and the Premier.
Meanwhile the mother and uncle
Of Abbott are using all Of their in
fluenco to defend the youth against
the charges, when his case comes
to trial, charging that the allega-
tions against him were the result Of
personal quarrel and are un-
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IsHlP BURNS WOODWORK
TO MAKE WAY TO PORT

NORFOLK, Va, April 20. = The
Norwegian steamer Kamfpord, from
Brake, Germany, with . cargo Of
nitrate, arrived here yesterday
minus booms, wood furnishings and
part OF the masts which were used
as fuel when the vessel was caught
in q hurricane and ran out Of coal.
The ship was driven 200 miles
off of its course. When 800 miles
Off Bermuda, the Kamfpord sent
wireless calls for help, and was
towed to Hamilton where enough
coal was obtained to take her 10
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VETERAN. 80, Is SUED
az WIFE, Sc, For DIVORCE

AUBURN, n. r, April gs.The
separation action brought by Mrs.
Lydia sloan shurger, So, Of Union
Springs, against the Rev. Charles
i. shurger, 50, former national
chaplain Of the @. A. r.. will be
tried 1t the May term Of supreme
court, which convenes next Mon
The parties to the action were
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convention. The wife contends that
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port By her husband, who Is now
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:. w. ALLEN TO SPEAK
ON CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

Gavin w. Allen, g. s. B., Of
Toronto. Canada. win lecture on
christian Science: The Science Of
Healing" at the First Christian
Science Church, Columbia Rnad and
Euclid Street Northwest, tomorrow
afternoon and evening at Bio and
8:15 o'clock.
Elmer /. Baldwin, first leader Of
the church, win introduce Mr..
Allen, who ii q member 14 the
board OF lectureship Of the Mother
Church, First Church of Christ,
SCIENTIST, in Boston. The public Is
invited.
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