New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1928-08-08
BY HENRY l.. FARRELL
(NEA Service Sports Writer)


With Gene .Tunney leaving the
fight game fiat and seeking other
milder and more gentle fields to IN
dulge his whims and fancies, the
richest and highest paid job in the
world is without an occupant.
There is vacant Job worth one
million dollars and the qualifica-
tons for the applicants are none
too exacting. A college degree or
even an aducat,on is not an essential
and even the ability to fight is not
as requisite as it was in those days
not so long ago when fighters had
to be fighters for rewards in iron
dollars.
Tunney refused to name his sue
cessor as Jim Jeffries did when he
stepped down a number OF years
aeo. The boxing COMMISSION OF
New York was too smart from eX-
perience to name new champion
and Tex Richard has too much
business sense 10 interfere ana
exercise his right as the car of the
business.
It is not hide nor hair off the
we'll known public's frame to have
an opinion and the public must have
its ordained right to give an
opinion on the now champion-eNen
if he is not crowned,
And, in this present season OF
straw vote vcgues. we have guess
that the public if asked to vote a
successor to the scholarly intellectu-
al. would by an overwhelming ma
lority declare and decree that the
new champion is-Mr. William Har-
rison Dempsey.
He has my vote right now.
There are thousands of the public
that eats its fight up by radio who
argue that Dempsey is not only the
rightful successor to the vacated
throne but that he has been rea
champion ever since that seventh
round last fall in Chicago whor
Tunney was Knocked ont.
II Tex Rickard didn't have th'
ambition to appease his shacket
board of directors above his estab
lished and recognized affection 70
Dempsey YOU could bet your dougl
that Richard would have said q
that most prcpitious moment tina
Dempsey was the new champion.
Had circumstances been NOR
favorable to him you can bet tina
Richard would have announce,
something like this-"That felle
i,- oh
am going to throw him in Their
late in September against tina
Risko Teller"
But Dempsey. not knowing tn
strange way in which Tunney wa
going TO turn the wind. tied himse
: up with a stage contract He didn
do the secret training he could hav
done and Rlckard will have to wa
until next summer to produce h
beloved Dempsey agaln-the onl
man who can guarantee millio
dollar gate any time he totes h
scowl and his swinging dukes int
the ring
Dempsey was tried three times
his declining years and twice faile
He beat Jack Sharkey He falle
T. twice against Tunney by decisio
and his last failure could have bee
his greatest triumph by the oth'
kind Of a break.
With Dempsey in there talkir
e fight again Richard wants to pr
IS mote another elimination tourn
J. ment to get back some Of tho
le couple of hundred grands that II
n Intellectual cost his corporatio
s. He could get it back with one fig
IN from Dempsey but the cards ha
g not been dealt for him.
The elimination tournamen
III proved terrific artistic busts f
g Richard last year although tn
IN we're exceedingly profitable and N
is Dempsey, = stakeholder OF the Ga
" den. will not object to some mo
III OF them But another one W
s. prove nothing other than that t
Id boys with color can't stand t
. process and that some drab fight
like Heency or a Risko will cor
through.
IS. Dempsey everyone knows "
IN through as far as his ability to he
~ Tunncy was concerned. He kn'
ht it and admitted 1t manfully.
es didn't have the speed to catch t
In fastest back pedaller. that e'
" stepped into the ring. He could
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