Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-14


told me that Jack was hard hit. did
Betty Palmer. Blanche Savoy, Bessie
Miller, Jane Green, Barbara La Mari.
Helen Mcclellan. Blonde Madge.
Tijuana Red, Ruth Roland. Babe
Sedgewick, Bebe Daniels. May San
ders. Bee Palmer. Vida Tisdale.
Gladys Hayne. Sylvia Joslyn. Mae
DevereauX. Doris Deane, Martha
Wilson, Jean Acker Ann Pennington.
Grace Dormond. Peggy joyce, Mae
West. Rita Turnbolt, Rose Saro.
Margaret HoXworth and Ruth
Dawson We're some of the startling
beauties that scintillated before his
eyes.
We decided on a trip to Europe
after while, and we made great
preparations for the journey.
The day the ship sailed you would
have thought that Ziegfeld had sent
his combined beauty chorus down to
see the champion go to sea.
OF course. It might have been that
6hefk Dempsey was not the only at
traction. There were Sheiks Damon
Runyon. Teddy Hayes. Joe Ben
iamin. Tommy Lyman and Bill Hal
ligan leading the parade. Plenty Of
heart busters turned loose on that
trip.
AL Woods and the Dolly sisters
we're on board. Jack and Rosita
Dolly got a crush on each other
though I'll admit that competition
was stirring all the time. 1t was
a merry-go-round trip, and when the
boat landed at Southampton every
body got a brass ring.
Visits Finest Homes.
While in London Dempsey proved
that he could move into any social
whirl and make good. He looked the
part, and he was as much at ease in
a drawing room as if he had been in
the ring. He wore clothes we'll, the
surest test. and it took a hardened
old social barnacle to outsalve
Dempsey. With the blue bloods he
was a lion, a pet. He visited the
finest homes in London, some titled
ones and some without titles, but
no matter where he went he was
we'll received and carried himself
accordingly.
He met royalty with the same boy
iSh enthusiasm and easy manner that
he met ordinaries. He was the guest
at the big EPSON Downs race track
the day following our arrival. He met
this lord and that, that duke and this,
and they liked him. He shook hands
with the King, who sat in the box
next to u.s. 1t was the Kings day,
hut l must say that Dempsey got a
greater ovation than the first man of
England. A nice tribute.
Jack responded and made snappy
little speech. We moved out to the
paddock, the lawn and the betting
ring, until the crowd that followed US
must have reached 100,0 900 persons,
They couldn't start the big race until
Dempsey had been uShered back in
his box. Even the King blew the
race. He couldn't keep his peppers off
the champion. 7 think at that that
old George would rather have sat in
with us for a little chin music than
remain where he was.
It's been long time since they
allowed him to be boy.
We were the guests OF Harry Pres
ton at Brighton. place somewhat
o nthe order of Atlantic City. Lunch
cons, dinners and breakfasts with
The big bugs came so fast that Jack
was threatened with being foundered.
England Gets Excited.
Fanny Ward gave us a blowout. as
did Charles Cochran. the Duke of
York and his tutor being present
AZ Cochran's racket. Dempsey was
The first American heavyweight
hampton to visit England since John
l.. Sullivans day and England was
quite excited about it.
Strangely enough. he was idolized
moro by grownups in that country
Than nv the kids. Quite the reverse
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