New Britain herald., 1926-08-12
DEMPSEY ANXIOUS
 ID JET INTO RING
Heavyweight Champion Would
 Rather Fight Than Dicker

counter, now that flSllanla has be- come big business and he has as sumed his own management, he told a representative of the Associated l Press after he had shifted from one 1 foot to the other for three hours | while trying 10 get himself licensed l for a bout with Gene Tunney in | New York.
 The champion said that he had | honestly tried for nearly five years to get a fight with Harry Wills and all he had obtained was condemna- | tion, summonses and headaches. Jack said his only lodging had been , of process servers in recent months, and that he preferred sparring with an antagonist in the ring if he could only succeed in arranging a fight, Coming back here to the big town always reminds me of the days I first broke in here" Demp- sey said.
 ''I was flat broke and couldn't | get a fight anywhere when l first bit New York in 1916. I finally got a shot that paid me $15, then a couple more that paid me s25 and $40. all preliminaries."
 But Dempsey has passed for the ve-and-take days of ten years ago, when he was an obscure plugger, seeking fights, to a position where match with Tunney probably would mean a return to close to S500,000.
 Isn't your three-year layoff go- ing to be big handicap in meeting Tunney?" Dempsey was asked. l Tt hasn't helped me any, that's cinch, but the fact l always keep myself in good condition is going to help. You know l never smoke or drink-I don't like the stuff and l always have had habit of keeping up my exercise and getting plenty of sleep. I'm not far from my best lighting weight now and won't have any trouble getting down to about l1SS or 190 for Tunney.'
 The champion sealed 202 1-2 in his street clothes at the boxing com mission offices on Tuesday.
 "The eye and the punch are the things that suffer most from long layoff," he went on. I'm going to get plenty of boxing so that l can get the timing of my blows down pat again. Then I'll work out with lot of fast fellows to develop my footwork and judgment of dis tances."
 nIJo,r. do ,-o,, s;7a ,,p Tuprnv 9" Don't make any mistake about lhim-he's the best of the lot Look at his record. He knocked out Tom Gibbons, who stayed the limit with me, and Bartley Madden, who lasted 15 rounds with Wills, He also knock ed out Carpenter.
 What was your toughest fight"
 Since I have been champion the Firpo battle was the toughest. He clipped me on the side of the face at the start with a wallop that near ly finished me. That was the best blow he landed-not the right-hand- CT, accompanied by shove that sent me flying out of the ring later in the first round.
 "I never really got over that first crack. Although l whaled into him and put him on the floor several times ] was still dizzy. I could see three or four Firpos when he went down. When I got back into the ring after being knocked out of if I was even worse off. l never even heard the bell that ended the round. Consequently, I didn't know l had hit him after 1t sounded.
 "I was banned for that, you re- member. A newspaperman came to me afterward and asked me wheth- CT I had heard the bell. Not wish ing to admit I was too groggy 10 hear it, said. Sure I heard it. The next day a big story came out that I had admitted hearing the bell and socked Firpo afterwards, thus con- hitting a foul. which should have disqualified me.
 That was a tough fight but the toughest of all were a pair of scraps had with a fellow you probably never heard of-Joe Sudenborg, a middleweight. We fought two draws back in 1915. one at Goldfield and the other at Tonopah. Nevada. We were both on the floor at intervals from the start to finish of the first bout and they had to carry me home in wheelbarrow. In the second fight I knocked him down seven or eight times in the first few rounds but tired and came back to have him paste me all over the ring in the latter rounds.
 My new nose? Say that's a joke. It's been busted so many times there's not much left of 1t. l had it fixed for the pictures. and got a lot of publicity out of it as a re- suit, but the truth is I've had this remodeling operation done dozen times. If if gets busted again I'll have it fixed, that's all.
 "Feel it, or take sock at it if you don't think it's o. K. now"
 New York, Aug 12 Pt-Jack Dempsey. heavyweight champion, has some thing to learn about the fighting game.
 One subject that he has failed to study properly is the matter of sparring partners teeth. It appears that Jack, during a friendly ex- change of socks In training yester- day busted several teeth from an opponents mouth, thereby causing the opponent to sink to the floor,
 At night the champion was called to the phone.
 DO you intend to pay for those teeth scattered about the ring he was asked.
 Well, I suppose so," he answered "But don't get them in my way a. gain"
 JOCKEY SUSPENDED
 Chicago. Aug. 12 R-Jockey T.. Schaefer, has been suspended for Is days for the spill at Lincoln FeiIds yesterday. in which two ri-
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