The Washington times., 1927-04-06

increased whatever faith he migl
for . match, putting it in this v
We need money. can't get 1t,
! any other way than by fighting
YOU. Such q match would draw
big, despite all the knocking about
1t now. You've got to fight some
one some time or other. Why not
give me the chance to grab $780,
600, or so as the losers end. That
$l50sOO0 win help Billy and myself
and you certainly can use the
money you'd get for whipping me. |"
Dempsey said he'd think it over.
10 help him think along correct
Mness went down to San Diego
and saw some influential friends
Of his. asked them to please.
help me get q shot at Jack, point
ing out that all Jack would need
to do was to crack me on the jaw
lew times, and get a half or
three-quarters Of million and that
I'd be willing to take those few
cracks Tor the losers end"
I don't know whether they In
luenced Jack or not. But I
know that soon afterward Jack
agreed with Tex Richard that
ne would meet me. Up to then
ne had not been so keen about
e because he didn't think the
match would draw. But Billy
and smoked him up to the
Idea that we would draw ca
pacity anywhere we were
right on that.
The result Of our battle sur
prised about 131, 500 of the 1872 900
customersb but think the most
surprised man in Philadelphia that
night. was Dempsey himself. AS
I've said, he had no fear that I
would defeat him before the match
was made. The way Billy and /
handled him made him surer that
all I'd get out OF the battle--or
really expected to get-Was a losers
end.
And all during the training days
the reports Jack got from Strouds.
burg, perhaps did little other than
heighten his confidence In success
full defense of his title. For In
most Of my public workouts; there,
performed in listIess fashion,
showed but little either in, speed
or hitting power and seemed even
lacking in my usual defense.
Day after day the reporters
came to my camp to watch me
--and went away laughing nc
my efforts and predicting that
Dempsey would stop me In
round or two. And such an
impression was comforting to
me, because that's just what /
wanted to convey So that the
news would get back to Jack
and increase his idea that /
would be just about the .'s0ft.
est" proposition he ever faced.
But aIways--always-T felt that
] could whip Jack-and would
whip him. And day after day,
did my REAL training in secret.
When the newspaper men were
soff the Job" I practiced some de-
fensive strategy with my sparring
partners, or / punched the heavy
bag Ia private. And every day I
spent from 80 minutes to an hour
ia throwing right hand at the
then phantom chin Of Dempsey.
No attack is more certain of ulti-
mate triumph than a surprise at
tack. Because of my realization
Of that, / determined that I'd sur.
prise Dempsey. And I did. When
he climbed into the ring, he per-
haps figured 1 wast without
lpunch-that was not perfectly
trained and that felt so inferior
TO him--that as soon as the going
became a bit rough that I'd take
q few on the chin and find a nice
soft spot on the canvas.
But the bell hardly had rung
\ when / hit Jack with 3 terrific
rigIlt-hander that convinced him
had concentrated power In
I that fist and the first round
was only half over before Jack
Dempsey WIS fully aware of the
fact That I had tricked him into
& believing that had no faith in
myself and that / had tricIxed
him and all the newspaper men
Into the belief that I was doing
nj my training just to get the
losers end" "a 49,
And that knowledge, in itself,
took some Of the confidence away
from Dempsey. even to the point
Of unnerving him and made it
easier for me to punch my way
to triumph and q worlds cham
pionship.
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