The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-09-19
WALL0P
STILL POTENT,
SCRIBE FINDS
Williams Notes Change in Tao.
tics-Dempsey's Last Fight
Brought Them
is USING BODY PUNCH
Champion Learns to ADOPT
Weaving Style-Has No
Doubt of His Victory
is USING BODY PUNCH
BY JOE WILLIAMS

BY JOE WILLIAMS
Chicago. Sept. 19.-Your friend
Mr.. Gene Tunney, l learn, plans to
fight somewhat different style of
fight against the celebrated hollow
she'll in the Battle of the Big Dough
here the night Of Sept. 90.
This in spite of the fact that the
style he employed year ago.
against the same man was effective
enough to win ten rounds out of
ten.
Why change? you ask, ana we'll
you may.
Your friend Mr.. Tunney is keen,
observing dude. To the extent that
he relies largely on a tack-hammer
left hand and a singing right fol-
low-up, he is pretty much set in
his style. But lie ca change around
a bit and when he changes he US
ually knows what he is doing and
why.
Dempsey Shot for Belt
Your friend Mr.. Tunney was at
the ringside the night Dempsey
dumped an odd assortment of right
and left hands into Jack Sharkey's
midriff. He made mental note Of the
fact that Dempsey was shooting for
the belt throughout the fight, and
that he seldom swung for the head.
Dempsey has always liked to
shoot for the belt, but in days gone
by he varied his attack more; where
he shot two to the belt, he shot one
to the head. Against Sharkey the
ratio was as 5 is to in favor Of the
belt.
Watching your friend Mr.. Tunney
in training amid the pastoral splen-
doris Of his country club surround
ings here, I note that he is holding
his left guard lower than is habitual-
ly his style.
.Sparring with Jackie Williams
and Billy Vidabeck and Chuck Wig
gins the champion almost invariably
carries the left glove at his waist
line and the obvious deduction is
that he means to use this as I. con-
slant defense against Dempsey's
body onslaughts.
Using Right Jolt More
That is one marked difference in
his present style. Another is that
he himself is shooting more for the
body than ever before. The cham
pion's best punch is a right jolt to
the liver. 1t was with this punch
that he started Carpenter and Glib
hons on the road to ruin. Naturally
he has always thought pretty we'll
of it. But where his custom in the
past was to hold it in reserve for
an emergency today he is using it
continually.
Last year at Philadelphia your
friend Mr.. Tunney was content to
stand off and pepper Dempsey's
bugle with straight lefts, followed,
at daring intervals, with q re ,onant
right-hand smack on the whiskers
or in the vicinity thereof. He didn't
do much body punching, chiefly be-
cause that meant getting in close
where the going was not only tough
er but more dangerous.
If he is to use his right jolt to
the body with the frequency that
his training seems to indicate, it
seems that he is prepared to take
more chances agains.. Dempsey this
time than he die. a year ago-and
if he doc {, you will see one hell of
fight, as they say in Oh mos+ adj
vanced dramatic circles.
Personally find t hard to be-
lieve th..t ,ur friend Mr.. Tunney
plans to step out and trade body
punches with Dempsey in a serious
way, but, from what his associates
say and the way he is pu .cling these
days, there is 'alenty Of evidence in
the affirmative.
Disturbed Because of Kayo Failure
hear that he is privately
disturbed at criticism for his
failure to knock Dempsey
out year ago after hit
ting him 1859 times and that he is
determined to prove that he can
knock him out-his statement that
he came here ito box, not to fight"
to the contrar. Notwithstanding.
He Lit empsey with all his power
with right-hander to the face and
it didn't drop him.
He saw Sha- KEY, harder hitter,
hit Derar sew with the anne kind Of
punch in much t same way, with
out creating a-v erio, damage.
lie is about convinced that you
can't hurt Dempsey by hitting him
in the head. Hence the decision to
go after the DO which passing
time and luxurior, living supposedly
have weakened no end.
Your friend Mr.. Tunney will not
admit that he plans to fight q diff
ferent fight or that he has any fixed
scheme in mind. All he will say is:
II will win again and I will win
decisively. I have never been
afraid of any man and I am less
afraid Of a man ! have once
whipped"