Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-18
DEMPSEY REALLY
CONFIDENT OF WIN
Manassa Mauler Regards
Tunney as Much More For
midabIe Than Sharkey.
BY BENNY LEONARD.

Retired Lightweight Champion of the World.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
Saratoga Lake, July 18.-Jack Demp-
sey boxed a few rounds with Dave
Shade out behind his bungalow early
yesterday morning. He also went a
couple rounds with a couple of the
other boys. It wasn't an official
workout, "just fooling around to keep
his eye and distance In tune"
thought it was funny If Dempsey was
going to let up entirely in his work
outs so far ahead of the coming battle.
Maybe it wasn't official" and may
be it was just ''fooling around" But
Martin Burke is sporting pretty
well bunged nose and to him 1t was
mo fooling'
I know that Dempsey boxed with
Johnny Saxon Saturday morning. but
then it twas for the movies" But
this didn't deter Dempsey from get
ting the workout just the same.
Dempsey showed himself on the
golf links yesterday and when Dave
Shade and the rest of them came
down to Luther's in the afternoon,
the story was that Jack had spent
the entire day on the links" Jack
certainly loves the links, and he
shoots such good game Of golf
mot"
Now, I don't blame Dempsey for
taking his boxing workouts in private.
Lots of the boys have knocked his
style, his boxing, his punching and
everything in general except his physi-
cal condition.
They can't take away the fact that
the ex-champion 'looks like million
dollars when he is stripped for action. u
SrInxy noY1tf thof 70 dnoCn't =
to be in marvellous condition.
Dempsey Really Confident.
Dempsey himself, I think, after
talking to him, really Is very confident
that he can beat Sharkey. He thinks
Tunney is much classier as a fighter
or boxer or both than Sharkey. Well
there Is this to be said in Dempsey
favor. He is not the first heavy
weight champion who tried a come
back, and if by any chance he should
be successful against Sharkey, il
wouldn't mean at all that he could de
feat Tunney.
Dempsey points out to me that other
holders Of his title before him were
not through" after they lost their
championship. Fitzsimmons. Corbett
Jack Johnson, even Jess Willard, came
Dd%h e&Al0 WIN d6uA4lot AcllA Wy
ponents after being dethroned-and
Dempsey doesn't think Sharkey Is any
more than an opponent.
Jack went into the other classes
and named Jack Britton, Freddy
Welsh, Willie Richie, Abe Attell
Johnny Dundee and Mickey Walker
He even touched on the lamented
Stanley Ketchel who. after losing his
title by knockout, came back and
knocked out his conqueror, Billy
Papke, to regain the championship.
With the exception of Walker and
Terry McGovern, whom Jack forgot
to mention, all these fellows who kept
on going were of the boxer type rather
than the fighter type. I know thai
the boxer is the fellow who can keeI
on going even after he starts to tobog
gan, for his decline is slower thar
that Of the fighter. When the fighter
goes he generally goes "all over"
I am not going to have any con
troversy with the ex-champ on thi.
| point, for it is an argument that will
get you nowhere, but I mention it tt
point out, or rather emphasize, Demp
sey's much-discussed Estate Of mind.