The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-01-27
TALKING
ITOvER
BY JOE WILLIAMS

NEW YORK, Jan. 27.-Admittinr
in the opening sentence that
Mr.. Jack Dempsey can change his
mind quicker than one Of Professor
Billy Minsky's dimpled dumplings
can switch from the red beads to
the purple, the gentleman assures
me by wire that there is no malar-
key about his comeback.
III light somebody IN September. maybe
sooner, p II will be q regular fight" he
says. l hope so. / wouldn't want 10 sec
re oio poy getting into any irregular ones
II interests me to note that he has
aaoptea a diherent formula for his current
COMEBACK. Instead Of going into the hills
ana getting into shape against an odd as
one night stands against anybody the local
promoters produce for him.
rms formula has the very satisfying vir-
tue OF yielding profitable box Office returns
with each performance, and because of
this there is a tendency to view the Demp-
sew comeback with skepticism. WHY come
back al all. II ne can make plenty Of
money by merely pretending tor
Don't ask me TO answer this one. Ap-
pItClatlnR the nuctuating qualities Of the
Rentleman's mind, that with him a firm
resolve on Tuesday may be something en-
llfelV dlHcrcnt tWenty-fOur hours later.
prefer to wait until I see him s~ctually
What interests me at the moment is
Dempseys Changed conditioning system.
VIII il work out better than the old2 OF
hand, you might say it couldn't work out
much Dempsey has left. It isn't c%onceiv-
had when he started to get ready for the
hrst Tunney fight.
CCHMELING was a much better
- fighter against Stribling in
Cleveland than he had ever shown
himself to be before, despite the fact
that ne had been idle for a year.
Why was that? The long schedule
OF one night stands sharpened his
speed and his timing, improved his
boxing and his hitting.
But lust because this kind of. work
neiPed Schmeling 1t doesn't follow that 1t
tent anyway. Schmeling is a youngster
coming. up. and Dempsey has long since
seen his best ring days. It just isn't in
tne DOCKS for a fighter in his 30's TO be
as good as he was In his COS.
1 happened TO be with Dempsey when he
started his come back for the Tunney
hght. The first indication that he really
intended to come back was the announce
ment that he had set up a training camp
On a mountain in the obscure town of
There was some mystery why he had
plCked HendersonVille. Up TO that time I
don't believe. Dempsey mad ever heard CT
vile had caught the %backwash of the Flor
IDA boom. The local realtors wanted a
name WITH which to bait the customers.
s sne 'Soo defc o ! tbr on Dempsey. 1t cost them
The idea was to catch the Florida tour
ISIS on the rebound. In those dizzy DAYS
1T wasn't considered fantastic to own bofh
an, oceanview mansion and a mountain5ide
lodge. Subdivisions we're staked out ali
eyer the m9qpbntain, s9me Of them daggglipg
gay spirits OF an Alpine climber.
TN the afternoons big buses from
a adjacent towns would come
numbering up the rising corkscrew
inclines stuffed with prospective
customers, being RECALLED the while
by a megaphone barker who de-
scribed in ornate detail the print
tive charm of the place and the
sound security of the investment.
When the busses disgorged their load,
Dempsey would begin his work in an out
door ring. Snorting and Slamming away
AZ such formidables as Farmer Lodge, lilly
Kid Herman and Marty Farrell. Somehow
the Dempsey show always got a bigger
play than the realtors. Maybe it was be-
cause It didn't cost anything. The boom
had already died but Hendersonville hadn't
heard about it.
Those were interesting days. The Demp-
Sey romance was still flaming. There were
no telephones on the mountain. Dempsey
had one Installed in his shack and each
night for three. weeks without a miss he
called Los Angeles to talk with Estelle.
His total phone bill was close to $4,000.
Yes, those we're interesting days. Demp-
sey was still the invincible man mauler.
blissfullv Obvious Of the fate that awaited
him at PHILADELPHIA Tex Richard vas
still the miracle man of the box office.
And a lot of critics we're writing what an
outrage n was that nobody would give
poor old Harry Wits a chance.