The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-05-22
7KNc C3IANTS BOLSTER INFIELD WITH CRITZ AT SECOND
TALKING
IT OVER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, May 2Z.-Ihere Is
IN something more than an out
side chance that before many weeks
have passed the racket that Is
known as the prize fight business
may witness the reunion on an ami
cable basis of the greatest combina-
ton in its history-namely, Demp-
sey and Kearns.
Both the fighter and the manager are
willing 10 strike a fraternaI attitude be-
fore booming flashlights and tear OF
few stanzas Of that roilicking tavern
song, Pals Again" All that remains is
for some interested diplomat to stage
manaEe the act.
number of circumstances have con-
tributed TO the situation. the most I'M
portant Of which. I imagine. Is that ooLh
prospered consistently as arm in me
beginning whereas neither Is doing any
100 well as individuals at present.
Il IS also true that before the break
six years ago Dempsey and Kearns we're
the closest OF friends, 50 II Is more than
probable that few honest vestiges of this
friendship have endured in spite OF the
various determinations that have passed
between the two in the public prints. That
Ole Debbel time has a strange way OF
overcoming blazing hates, and mellowinS
feuds.
Through mutual friends, KearnS
knows Dempsey would like to see the
old firm back in operation in cauli-
flower row and Dempsey knows
Kearns is eager to dust of the bal
lyhoo drums and start the headlines
dancing in boxcar type. The boys
seem to think their return in tan
dem style would create something
of a public hysteria and that aI'to-
matically all other artistic interests
in the racket would dwindle to the
obscurity of minor matters. IN
which reasoning they may be very
wrong or very right.
r-ron, a reasonably authentic source. I
rad learned of Dempsey's changed atutuoe
and that he no longer held any par
ticuIar snimus against the man VINO , 1e
veloped him and sent him out agalnSSss
the ponderous willard to become worlo
champion.
Meeting M with Kearns at the Derby l
ever coming back together. 'If he wants
to shake hands and forget it's all right
with me- he answered. 81 don't know
whether we can ever be the friends we
once we're but 1 can't forget that we
started together and at one time were
close and happy"
This was new and different Kearns
talking 1t had been years since l mao
heard him mention Dempsey except in the
most scathinE, phrases i tno nl,Ir,.,t
almost detected faint note oil sentiment
in him.
INT II he had stepped out of character
he did not stay out very long. In the next
breath he became the Kearns of old. the
scheming planning, imaginative Kearns
thinking wholly in cold terms of matches,
gates. and balIyhOO.
GAY, do you know could take
- that big guy and claim the
championship for him and overnight
we would have the heavyweight di-
vision back where it was when Rick
ard was alive"
And then he went on to show that
Sharkey and Schmeling were just a
couple of other clog dancers, and
that if Dempsey were to come back
he would have more legitimate
claim to the championship than
anybody else.
n
HE left the ring that night in Chicago
after dropping Tunney still the champion
in the ewes of the public. Nobody has
beaten him since. And 1 imagine he is
still good enough to turn in some more
good fights If he goes into training"
4
Kearns neglected to mention that Demp-
sew probably would provoke Just as big
stir If he stepped out and claimed the
championship himself and offered to night
making the claim stand. Perhaps he Just
didn't think Of 1t.