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PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE FTTFI? 11 34 jr "yc rv 3 7 5C -V. (, St K. 1 i ii A Great Staff of Experts Mow Eeportlng Tunney-Bempsey Fight For The Post-Gazette azeue The greatest fight of the age is now being covered by the POST-GAZETTE in fitting style. With the entire world awaiting the outcome of the Tunncy-Dempsey bout, THE PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE has outdone all previous efforts so that its readers will get the best. A battery of sport writers unequalled bv any paper ever printed in this section, are now sending their views and stories from the training camps so that readers of the PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE will "sec" the fight from every angle.

5v Ii'EGLS WELSH, sport in of tl.r- POST-GAZETTE, of protons championship ROBERT DOR EX, dean of firrht writers, who lias covered every since Sullivan and will, in addition to his present his mind's eye of happening in this epochal WALTER ST. DENIS, another staff representative of the POST-GAZETTE, a veteran compiler of litle fights, will depict the various ancles seldom come to the view of the ordinary scribe. WESTBROOK ETv, un- ehaUentred as a Immorous writer of serious events, will talk the lan- jruace the ti.cht world in telltnr his tale. 4- hnvf hem read avidly by local T'f adfrs, will cover this battle -is coiHpJf'tclv as lie has others. articles are all in addition to the reports of the Associated Press, United agencies regularly serving this newspaper.

it -e ac it- 3g "-t 'SC TURNING saysGene to jack' CHAMPION GREATLY IMPROVED; VEILED INSINUATIONS! IMPRESSES IN FAST WORKOUT LA 1LLA, Sept, IS. (I'nitwi News.) Gene Tunney on Sunday dictated the following open letter to Jack Detnpsy: My Dear IK-uipse Vour open lwtter to me lias been hrousht to my attention. My reaction is to ignore it and its evident trash completely. Hnfer, I cannot reftist saying that I rrwisider it a clieap appeal for public sjnipaKiy. Jo yon think this is sportsmanlike? (Signed) gem; ti 'Not Displays Unusual Savagery in Attack Against Sparring Partners; Is Confident of Retaining Title Against Man He Took It From.

These special Word Battle Preced ing Big Bout Newest Sensation. TIWNKY'S TR A I I NO CAMP, ''f'itr i 'outitry Club. Sept. person -hn have been rinrsi.le nniy he ba off after all. l-'nr from fl rf h.it i r.p.-nr-,( fo.la: it rnijy be 'hi! ft, is, of may he fnu-ht in the nrwo.

ofhrr prnat i H'ises of pro- 1 t.ihrion, pr. m.l-ntial iinl filSllt OVPT 1 CI'T'llll in i H-ires, Shnviru; Kisrn of I eu -ij Miiviotis of Tunriey'M repu- in imt.fior of thiiisrs mini a- Iiemp-ey tins afternoon I in(re, rlass of th C- fc CHALLENGER, MAKES I I empsey Is usmess tp i i meeting. News and other news Leue pquareiy" on that occasion, but th iitorao- effort not marked by any extra quantity of the milk of human I kindness and brotherly love. AcruspH Brorwon. That Dempsey was hurt more than he cared to admit at the time by 'harss made that he had not done his full duty in the war is also shown in the letter.

He charges that Jimmy r.ronson. Tunney's chief second in Philadelphia, inspired "in 1919 inspired "in 1919 the! i of picking him "out of Americans who were tx- empterj from war duty and tryinrr-to wreck and ruin me in public opinion for no other reason than that tie (P.ronson) thourht he could toss me into the discard and pet for his championship Corbett, sketches, what is By HEGIS re-Battle Atmosphere TUNNEY'S TRAINING CAMP, CEDAR CREST COUNTRY CLUB, 111., Sept. IS. The world's champion who wilt defend his title next Thursday night seemed to be at least 30 per cent a better title seeker than he was almost a year ago. Bigger, stronger, and with the confidence that goes with the possession of such -mighty a treasure as the heavyweight championship Gene Tunney.

to one taking the first look at liiia since the training days at Slroudsburg or the night of his triumph Philadelphia, gives one several reasons for this impression. The same sauve, cultured boy outside the ring, Tunney, today at least gave flashes of the savagery in attack which everyone insists must be part of a fighter reigning over the heaviest division of the light game. nnvene Dempsey Note to Tunney Causes Sensation. IS. If the fistic on Thursday ('HICAGO.

j. encounter in th nisrht has hair as much i'fe and fire i to it as the word bottle between cham- mi'ier sorce of p-r for th reni'emen who paid .0 tickots may not be in miner ol one the rnosf master- Mr. Gene Tunney in'irnatinq that Mr. fnl ever by even Tunney's sponsors fixed certain x-ehamnion. I ials in their hoxm match of last Sep.

I the mre or expert hands, jteniher so that Oempsey couldn't win. v.mp-ey cidlir-ar Tunney "Dear The material in Mr. Dcmr.sev's let. AH Worked M. WK1H.

l'ight Nature Aroused. And again, sensitive to criticism, Tunney today reflected in his work the effects of the letter which Mr. Demp- sey addresocd to him, shovrin'-t beneath is cool demeanor, that he was hurt to the quick and real fig-hting: nature aroused. Providing thT champion will nurse this arrogant contempt until Thursday, when he meets face to face with the author of the missive which tonight was sent, broadcast, Tunney give all those who have been "weeping at his shortcomings along the fight line something to ponder over a.s he wa-s in Philadelphia last year, the champion proved that ali his time the interim has not been in book learning. Tunney, having fought Dempsey, knows that Jack's chief reliance is in a left hook, the grandchild of the left hook that floored Willard and battered Carpen-ticr, so, instead of taking it "on tho lamb" 5 lie did last year and d- Title Battle I charges of 'draft dodfter' that were! at mP Dompsey alao accuses fighter, P.ob Martin (A.

K. cham- 'empsey get together to decide for all 'pion i the Fhot at Georges Car- I time their question of individual su-j pentier," Bronson, by the way, is! premacy at Soldiers Field. a disappointment after ail. There rri.iy he a let-down in training iwtivt for the next, few d.iys. h'it ttsrf1 will be no dearth of fiinJnm to talk about.

off a-- is his custom, and niltsey i unne; is eonntes his Hsual ef- tyie If they mean what they -iy, they hn a tirl' llHt xv' a quarrel- De tor more th milium doll.t rs it whr they enter the i 1 t- fj'htinir to se-f; th'-r- i no flcht like a Dempsey starts It. i It all came at'out this way Imp- sey -wxofe the cti-jrrT'in an open let- 1 er in reirard to and s'mdryj la- did not like about the -O I i Ida, a vear. jw of f.tns 'nave thiit was; not. rb.t atsut that eneotmter, i.ut Dempsey tias kept silence until new. unnev reac usual bis i i I Tuiiney" enoiiRh inestwrns for Tunnev to answer to place the former champion in Thomas Kd, son's cku-s us a question maker.

for at) explanation, not with cloves, hut )i pen or typewriter. Dempsry 'famous hat fl' nf the sesqui." 'Philly Buut Was On Square" Boyle Hftvf.v Ro.rlr, I he IVtuhnnrh rrpr- boirtR 'orn intormrfl r.f letter lH4-k lrrnTfy Huitl tr i ii Tn nne nrl -tilri inKi mm! i lire atreecl in h-ivf -n nr.i'lc aftit thtr M-rap in a uro, mimI thai a far as lie and th nmimls.iini rer conrmifl th fiic fit pal off it ahtul, bavfi I siru'rrrl brlivr thitt fictit wn.n fn tbr iiT -mi op," thr rnmmit- "c'T-r. Ye tt')U evfry pnsnjhlf precaution to pr-'iit an rrrvoK'-flnr' and I rii rtn i m'ed thai bt ti th Ipvrl. tilhi.nr vr has rom up to nirim- jnp ri hi'ru i-f and 'hfn r.rvcr wits nny doubt in my but whitt on Khoulri Ankrl nbniit a Hitt mlnule ban it" i ritre lb iludl pitt, cm-TTi'iinner llt' su'ul tbfr h-i st tViuiK. mfaninje im-Mlf antl thr nthrr two our inu4j up two wtfks b-fnre tbp bt who vran jcolrg; to Tffrcf and tbe man vr tbi tini wu thr Hamr run whi nfTirjai--', Tlif fi dc jfjrl on tb- Hbmli banrfw wifh wh offtT fV'rnt (MM-re'r be official nnti I ti-T jr to fnVr ririjr.

This 1 tid at no time atfr makin; lt ever rort1drr mak-' a rlianirp," tbe rommsinnpr ron- fighting backing away, the e- counter, had a statement for ih paper bovH todav-also dressed up as WPre to Eiv, 1Ioff CPnt of ial1 Ian open letter. It is not couched mjyour earnin-s as champion." any har.n.: terms. This is the way i re. a ds i scheduled to act for Tunney axrain in tniiS fl-hf a.s his chief hacker in the "Something Phoney." BeeeiviDS receipt hy Dempsey of "tip on the eye of the Philadelphia fSght that there was "somethiraj phone" about if. and that he was told "some sort, of deal had been made v.

hereby sorm-hody was going to steal my or en loiter a-sks ibcn entered info an al sea agreement with Hoff to borrow on the understanding that this amount would be repaid, if Tunney lost, but that if Tunney won. "Gibson would pay back to Hoff the $20,000 Bronson, after reading- toe news paper story, declared "The oniv thin? I have to say is I hope Dempsey instructed the man who wrote the story to spell my name rteht. Seriously, however, I regard I the letters as the poorest kind of propaganda. It will not perturb Gene i Tunney in the In so far a the references to Bob Martin are con-ice med. they have nothinir whatever to do with this fisrht.

Gibson, ridiculing the attempt of liH mpsey's open letter to link his son's) business dealings with lloff to events connected wat.h the F'h iladelph ia fisht. ueclared. "Dempsey merely trying to create aja certain amount of sentiment in the public rnind that will help to get away with something he or his camp Itoard of strategy have in mind- It will not help him to get away with ness or anv attempt to steal this i tm tve -ork 1 over ty Mr. Dempsey ar.fi bis adviser! tef ore tile Sharkev flght when they I talked ahout faX'ini precautions I jainst i I I I 1 arena wilt ca.st a.spers:or;s on th-- fair almost forpot'r-n name of and sully a rva their dirt by fh I uivic uplift enterpri.se for p'urpo-e of i before the fi.i-ht flnanciai gain through fjm-or "dear" Tunney fr Jjemnsey does not Here's How Fight "Pot" Is Distributed CHICAGO. Sept.

IS LVi Tlrr is how th ptirctlasei of e-ach iO tieltrt for the ilempsPv-Tnnrpy battle con-trihiitcs to tlif various ttrms makins up the expected $3,0011,000 Frderal tax $3 64 lllineis Htate tax 3 64 Tunnrys share 13 Ikmpsfj's share 6 General expenses 3 IX) Rental of Belt! 1 34 Promoter's profit 9 05 Total $40 00 These approximate fltmrrs are proportioned on Tunney parse of $1,000,000, Iempse's end of $450,000, general eipeoses of $300, 0OO, field rental of and the taxes to the amount of $540,000, leaving Tex lKckard a profit of $610,000. Windy Up City Is By ALTER Post-Gazette Stall CHICAGO, 111., Sept 1 8. Nothing" but the big- tight counts in this city from today until after Thursday, when Champion Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey and Tunney had their final public "prep" for the event yesterday afternoon. Tunney with an eye that is of some little, bother, produced first by a cut inflicted by Chuck Wiggins, and later on to have it further In jured by another partner sticking his thumb under the upper eyelid. Dempsey Shifts Routine.

Dempsey, at Lincoln Fields, made a shift in his regular routine and went through his sparring exercises for the benefit of the newspapermen and for those with pull enough to fret by the g-endarmes at the gate. The latter announcement came about noon and then there had to be a division of the scribes, some going to Lake Villa and others to Crete, the official name of the place where Dincohi Dieid is located. In the meantime, the boxing pot i.s seething to some extent, but we are not inclined to believe it is of such general interest a-s to allow for the realization of Tex flickard's early announcement that it was going to be a sell-out. In fact many tickets are yet available. And there does not ap-tear to be any reason to expect a shortage with the fight only three days off.

The merest in the fight is growing and being talked of like anything- else of importance the sport-worid. The i no.eis are niung up sure enousu ana in many cases the proprietors are jacking up prices. liich train beings in carloads, but not. in the quantities that the early days indicated. It is ex-i pected to be a last minute rush from the close-by cities such am Toledo, De-j trait.

Duluth, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, Cleveland, St. Louis imd such spots, has iieen heard of any train- loads coming from N'ew York or New- ark, ail of which begins to bear out the fWateA asseUton tYiat tn, aflatr canea tr it mis omy bit over the Shouldn't Be Failure. ins mcK or it ail may come rrom late distribution of the riot, or map TITLE CI a jnows apeea ana sg- gressiveness in Final Workout. but. victories, and impressive ones at that.

Different HclUer. "You see another Dempsey victory, anil an Impressive one, on Thursday nig-ht. We'll take this bird Tunney in about, four rounds." Ono finds it impossible to disagree with Flynn when he advises disregarding the Philadelphia fight. If Gene Tunney is to retain his title, he must heat a better Dempsey than he met that rainy night 12 months ago. Gene must have improved himself sufficiently to stop a tigerish at- tack, perhaps not the murderous on slaught of Toledo, Boyle's Thirty Acres and the Polo Grounds, but an atttack which will be relentless until the decisive blow- is struck.

Sound leprs. sound wdnd. and 197 pounds of fighting energy will carry Jack out of his corner in response to the elani-r of the starting" bell at Soldier Field. During the Sharkey fisrht it seemed for a time as thotlgh Pernpsey's legs world's heavyweight championship. Over Big 1 i i I 1 I to imoian No onder, Look At the Practice They Are Getting VILLA.

IIP. a "nitiM NfHs.) ffiuri, iliibp. tso of spa pine part ncrs, rn.v. pt 18. isKHN and i-n 'i unn' ed it hru'f, Ifrisk Hfid iniiiromjitu t-rkont (lii.V.

Thr tin i mobile in wbirh 1 Iip.v wer riding through be Brrvumdt thr rt-ist onnlry Iui i it-. rnid-d frm the road h-y a rnr ron-btinhiif two rhiinrf visitor to tbe thmpionS ruimnir quuripr. Words wrrc and when the visitors, unuware of the identity of ieedns and Vidabek, net ords Avldrb riihed for di.v-.ieal inlnre tb- pair of bxer went bito ation. Hark hit one of the unfortunate visit ops and rbilv the rhr. f'f i-j(or wnt down and out find v.re rarrh-d to nrarhy farmbonse for resust if at iori.

Hh'-n they rprovpred rtm tlif double knoekunt they hur-ned hark t. birao, jrosjdiy exhibit-ins; their s-w rdlen jaw-, to their friends. Mr. Mr. AM Mr.

Koff. i fi-h'. i.ff'T 1 1 Mr. from pav 'f an his lawyer, a Mr. at tus -rf he w'S awjditmc th ivt orodv brought siimrf tiy Mr.

1 by Mr. w.is ti. i n. Tv.ni a cl-. tviw d.

ra deal "a-; th's: Approved Terms, In i oris: deration of one dollar n'h'-r utood and valuable Mr. Gibson to Mr. a 2 per cent interest in Mr, Tunney, if and provide. th it Tunney houid win the championship that ntsrht from Af-'-or'iini: to the wording tf the rieutiaerit, Mr. Gibson was e-, turn over -i per cent ot all Mr.

Tunney's Kirnn't. as champion to Mr, Koff Mr, Hoff says he naturally tlat yx fJih'Dn owne.i tie. 1-3 per y-nf int'reM iu his fighter'-- earnings. Tunnt-y i-urM'- no ol 'it'afion to pay any mmi to Mr. ioff Je merely si-neu the- docuriiertt at tfie bottom after the sii-- of tiie contracting parties au i th wi'pf-ss, Sorody.

He said: "1 hereby approve the terms of tlu. above contract. 4 Sipned) Kuircne Joseph Tu- ley." The after he v. on the ft-tit, to sirn another, more d' taiJed con'ract prepared by and A Veil on Tun- ii' in a private railroad car in The Phiia.ieiohia Iratn yards and tit 1 away fail of "ndiimation. On the sum" d.a., 'r.

Gil soir iliscoyf-reii brm--m; a rather ne-lected prizefight- i er aion to the hea ht i of the worM. a fitie 1 valuefi at s-arof between $1,500 oof) atid he wu.i not to he iuiti'-l a tn jnpci- JACK LOOKS AS HE (t Vm Ready to Go," Dempsey Tells Friends. TVy HUNK OKTTY. LINCOLN KIKLDS RACK TRACK. 1, Kept.

18 Standing the thrs- ol i never yet crossed by an ex- champion of the world, fi I ff a bronzed, tin'-! look fighting man, today abh- i'f regaining his title. lor; Twaglii frail of training up which he has totle-i downfall at i end Siinda.y af'feriiooTi drew off has drippim-' as, wiped the perspiration ii-n at ia hiS be. -th ii- brows and ii r'cidi to fo. -ear's work lh brought of his 5T fnrm and ftome-j p'nysif-fd p-rf'-c- if in La 1 1 huh bed his ay to k. ii rt- -1 --iry yed i'h fvid atid ereise from ip on edire," jed old beo his brown nt sa'isfiic- har 1M.ks Capable.

Inokefl upon as he lis rubdosvri after the at Lincoln Fields cer-capabie feucceedmj; Hi'-' voikoc look 1 i I I UKK VII.I.A, 111., Sept. IS (I nited N'ews.) My Iear IVmpsey: Vour open letter to me has been brought to my attention. My reaction to ignore it and its evident tntsh However, I cannot resist saying that consitfrr it cheap appeal fur public sympathy. Do you think this is spnrlstnan-like? Tl'NN KY. rmp.y' letter appeared in fT? Hnr i the, Chicaeo In it the chal "Herald-Kxa miner leneer chailengr-s Tunney to do fxplninwK.

In particular bt-! the champion to reveal "all thf an-ies involved in that suit which Max (Boo Boo) Hoff of Philadelphia 1 I I I Same Old Story" Only Mere Ballyhoo. IS Hj' A HROOK tan i'r CUTCAGO. Sept. 18. -The il1 ural tone of Mr.

Tex: i-nco uplift enterprise fmtiarrafnl to.iay when -reat Senoiis! '-T-. Dempsey authorised an open letter t.i ter is not exactly newsy at this lau-flate, as the matter haw reopivotl simv slight, mention in 15 or 'JO stories reported hy the Chicacro "Trthune" Press Service May. In fu rt then is a.Imosf snTioienf to susy-err that Tr. rempsy's- communiral ion Tr. Tunney whs inspire-! hv hnsiness i motives ani not by Mr.

Impst-y's for truth sjii'i jut i br-cnus- rese ex hanirp of 1 an ro- criminations is bound to thMr m- p'n'lin? f-xemses the aspect of a irrii'l-re stimulate rh i -k--f business that N'eref StimijJanb Tt h.i3 b-en suspofpd last few -lays that the ticket tsus in ned of a imulan and I rally Mr. Iwmppy ou'-i 1 eaue: to stimulate inasmvich as jhrium for the uplift work wid easti reel in the rt-oeipts. Mr. himself -I less Is partly to blame for ny on part of th' 1 a he on his arrival in Sept'-ni hr 2, tha a frt i here to fipht, but to m---t a rival in a contest of skill and" If th-re is anythi at a ere the customers more than hd irh prices for remote sats it is an open threat of scientific and skillful box me: be-t ween two business rivals neither on of whom will con fess to a anjrtju toward tho other. It a i so i i tat71 affairs when a well to-do bus-rv-ss a who is supposed a id a hvin, fun-lovinc; knitrht of th rep hesitate, to connect the name of rival with the names of Mr.

Max I (Boo Boo) Hoft and Mr. Honest Atie Attell, both oT whom are des nhed as sinsister characters and stninc-ers to those who live rirht- Ia-rnpsey could have brought up the matter long apo. Things. The unfnrtunst nf th rat on rrn' rp i of clean sport and honevst rival v. i.s hat Mr.

Tunney, aftc: four mom hs Ktjn quoHtion involving hi n-hii is trali. Out tit I i ainut. i hat he. false name a provinsr the sale of a ZO per cent id- 'fn-st in himxt-lf to Mr. lloff, the I character, only a few hours before he entered the ring in I'hiladelpbin.

if course, Mr, Tunney stntl' numly mtinners and an admirable rec- or'1 as a citizen, but this has; f.n'i iacravated the curiosity of the i-n? tiht profession and a certain element of the customers. K'r it ts not ap- parent on the surface of things ju-f irenti.fn;an 01 sucn mri should si.m false name in approval I contnu which would bnr.K biro Into partnership with a social, pr. fes.siona! and moral inferior. Substantially the facts of the 'tiiah Mr. Iempsey nfcv revives ittl -n a sinister implications are tra se A day before tho tlrst prizefight Mr.

Will mtuiuf-r of Mr. Tunney, appeared Mr. Dernpsey's. tottaae uorld bail of 1 'a 1 9 and induced some the a ti ie' i to do Ie.i than tiieir I- I Mr. Tunney Mat: that Mr.

(bbson was grea' ly stitnu'ated at th- tinse and I nut capable of realizing how tciiiv association with Mr. AUeji mn-ht. la-interpreted by the rc, rr ow -m perwunw. Mr. Gibson and Mr.

Attell to Tunney. Mr. Atte'l a frxTid I of his, Mr. Loo Loo Hoff, of wished to purt a ZO P'T pt interest in Mr. Tunney.

the claim to tieroitif' effective, if Tunney i-ho'iH v. in th hampiomdiip. hm nn.il and he fail. Mr. Tunney said: "Loo Loo Hoff 'must have more confidence in me than my own Mr.

flibson, b-n ilon' I ca.re what Mr. Git'son do i his holdings. Mr. Tunney later a'lnni-itt-d that Mr. Gibson no Jena! hid-ing whatever, their cuntrai! las tishter and manage huvimr exoired 1 1 1 urea at ami explain "whv a lot 1 anvtmnp at all.

We. are prepared to of KamVAers made 'a htige YtetUngHrotect against any trick- ST. OBNIS, Correspondent. of the Soldiers Field layout. People refused to buy early unless they knew where they w-ere poing" to sit.

But. the. mass are out now and there may be one of those late minute rushes which may brintr back the old smile to Tex Rickard's face. Why it should be a failure is card to understand with so many varying opinions on the outcome of the fi-u-hr. This is a Dempsey country and generally its 3 to 1 in favor of the ex-cham pion when opinion is sought on the result of the fight but even at.

that, there is no pre at amount being bet. They are talking bets, all those gamb lers of this town and they are all here for the town i.s wide except for a hundred here oncn. hut i or there no great amount have been recordo-i ibs up, Tunney continues to rule between a 6 tn 5 and a 7 to 5 favorite but there are a lot. of people talking 2 to 1 that Tunney will not respond to the bell for tbe eight round, maybe the betting will perk up when all get. here and a real line arranged the day of the fight.

When this comes to pass, it is as serted by some oU the gamblers that if will beat least even money and take your pick, if Dempsey js not sent to the post favorite. Tunney's cut eye and it being hi.s right, is regarded as more serious than it is regarded among Tunney-ites. With Dempsey's left hook work ing hard and fast as it has in train- is nreriief erf fiene will the not altogether completely healed uD ouite earlv which may brine about such annoyance aa to hinder him in carrying on as he should. HARRY PERSSON GETS DECISION Ji'. Gorman Forced tO Quit Because of Injury To Knee.

STOCKHOLM, Sept. 1 8. ID Harry Persson received the decision today over bind Gorman in the fourth round of their bout. Gorman was obliged to give up because of a sprained knee. Tbe men are heavyweights.

Twenty thousand persons prattnered in the Stockholm velodrome to watch the open air bout, included among the spectators being Princes Carl, Lennart and Wilholm. I Gorman took the first two rounds, landing repeatedly with lft, a-j though I'erson, breaking- from a clinch in the sr-cond round manacid to opri ii. cut over Gorman's left eye with a hard blow. There was some hot fighting In the third round. In the fourth round prrm the offensive and landed several hard blows.

With one of these (Gorman slipped to the floor and wa.s unable to stand on his left leg. He continued jumping- on his right le- exchanging blows with his opponent. Dr. Arthur Buelow of Berlin, judge of the bout, stopped the contest and awarded the decision to Persson. The spectators were much disappointed, but remained orderly.

Gorman wept as he was assisted from the ring. Persson shortly will sail for the United States, where he has been offered several bouts. New Haven Beats Tiprers. NEW HA VEX. Cmm S'-pt.

Itaven ef the Katrm la.ip thrr-B Tirtnrj- f.vpr Arr.erl here today. ty inrctiR-: (A) rre Xew Haven fKl HO Hynian and banir.nf," -cl1! Xaw 1 five tn i Leajrrip, 3 It ii and Son Excels Dad. Dr. Roy F. Ba.rna.rd.

ef the Blue River Country C'ub in Indiana for a number of year, was reretiriy by hta son, Paui, in the semi-Rriiti nxinzi of tbe club's goi? tournament. 1 i plunge on vou to win that tight after 1 nr.tr ma.n,ager, one of those conference i tbintrs." Of couTe, Jack say.i the expected fiing about being beaten riy and hrir. rs back th'n hv those who lik "fes. 1 Ti: fa v. i make a full explanation of everything" connected with the I'hiladelphia fltrht except whv it rained so hard.

Mentioiiinu" At Attell and Jimmy as co-c-onspimtors of the fhmrs whi 'ti to undermine him r. timely, forcrettin all alout the U-sral prr eeih.nps of his former mannsrer. Kerns, nemfwey, at this late day IMS: or a in um even to mW, wouhi hotter tie-n left htiried. insinuations are cat at the i'lnrsyUunia p.oinu f'fimmission for h-T I-trt swU')una rererees at the minute, while is the tar-for at-tion rardlTiii: T'-nipst'''P Htitus ir. th- t-ar.

In all, if a Knifi'l of the things a i thtnizht i-nrrnunil'-'l the Philadelphia f.fr-iir but were never cer-lain of until the newst.apers the fi be known. Th" onus i e.J 'n Tunney to explain Abe -an nv rnimn i it- (i r. r. and other tliinns excet.t bis i -fn 1 i- in net- irur the cha i n. fi- rnpwi of '-vt-ryt hi ex 1V.V lull, SI if fai.d to fr.JJfilV 'iia t'dtirtu round that I-- ainios- a year auo, but bol.hn; thitt labii'tai, flenr- Tunney will into a l.tnf vp! tnata.ii clarify a lor.s- tboucht fully ex(luinei I 1 i.

4 3 va'tos-y. i Yellow Jackets Win Opening Grid Game I I i CAPABLE OF REGAINING of hi; champion had added to his extensive i.i.- cross propelled with the snap and vigor of comparative youth, to beat, by the slightest, fraction of a second the lumbersome left hooks which Dempsey threw at him and scored with a year ago. This puncn, the ail end of the "one-two" ox many faster and flashier fighters, is started with ail the power and momentum Tunney, with his bulk and strength can put itlto nd befut' of is that it is timed to the split second, appar ently today at least, just right to get inside and nullify some of the swings which disconcerted him in the fourth and other rounds last year. tireatly Improved. In addition, i unney has a stance.

not nw but improved, which seems to give him perfect leverage for these the left tr, i and the crushing right to the chin. Even in his close work, where he has always been regarded as a past master, Gene seemed to throw more power and strengtu than any time in h. fight-! ing career. During five rounds in his fight, two with Jack Williams, this lad who cut his eye lust week, and three with Hilly Vidabeek, Tunney chopped. uppercutted and ripped io the body with both fighting in and out ot cAiiu-hes and even on Ytts way back out of danger.

And one other thing much as "Tunnev would like everyone to look upon nirn as tbe supreme boxing champion of the universe, he has a yearning, in this fight particu'ar'y, to uphold the traditions of the prize rinc Not that he will turn to be a bulldog fighter of the Tom Jeffries-Frank "Moran type, but still, fighter enough that none can say he "is only a boxer." That was prova.d. in even titM trainirig' camp, wben after suffering a severe cut over the eye, he disdained to use a Jiead- suurd Today he finished Tip what is 11 ko1' ms workout, I asKfl Tunney why he took such a risk of injury. Sort of amazed at the query. Gene flushed for the second and re- Risks Injury Chance. "AVe'l, Til tell you, it's this way.

never liked them any wa and the wearing of a jruard to protect me from sparring partner punches to me is repulsive. Some day I must take them on the chin," and he grinned sarcastically, "From the hardest puncher in the flght game. So, why not take them now a.r;d become accustomed to them. Taking punches is part, of the traininir as well a.s every other phase. I'm just traininer myself In take them.

Whether I do or not depends mostly op, myself, but 1 want to be -in case I do pet hit." This was the Tuntif of today four days before his title test a Tunnr-y confldent in the extreme, a Tunney sfronsrer than he ever looked, a Tunney snapping his punches and flh-irig back, a Tunney who seems to hovts a burning desire not only to hold 3 title, but to prove his right to it by twice defeatir.fr the man whose name has rotten io be synonomous with all the fury that can be packed into a 24-foot ring. And it would not be surprismfr were the Tunney of today mentally and physically capable, to do all the thiriLr which course through hi.s mind as himself from an throng of 5,000 persons out here in tu cool of the country. LONG TRAINING GRIND in .1. Sept. is Th St roud.sburg", 1'a, accompanied Mr.

vet, thpir Abe Attell. Mr. Attell will be -f fr-m the the fr aa a 1 00 a'l vantage. Of the ver th.ti er low wafres prevalent in Mr. A.

get him in a few rounds "This ftarht means more to me than any I ever had. The. way people have come around to support, me has been the finest tribute I ever received. "I've pot to make pood, to justify their support "You probably can't realize bow I feel. It's the biggest thing in my Ine this busines beating Tunney." Dempsey confined his concluding workout to three rounds of and aside from the ciimac-tic knockout fif Rocky Rtrsseil he did not punish his sparring partners severely.

He tv, a round with Allentown Joe and another with Archie Till. Gar Shows I'ire Da.sh. Three rounds of rat-tat-tat on the Heht bag and Jack threw his gloves to little Jerry tdivadis with a jrrateMI sih. He had shown more Sire and dash than at any time since coming to Crete. There was a convincing" snap Dempsey's punches and a sutrtrestion of the old "Manatcsa mauler" in the ay he crowded his man and kept hitting.

It is a week since Jack showed such and aggressiveness. His workouts Ht night, under the plare of lights approx ima ing those winch will blaze WINDS UP Where Corbett failed and Kitzsimmons ffil te red and Biff Jim Jeffries collapsed. The heavy we-, cht, kingdom that once 'mi Jack's very own has never known ffo- same rider twice, Po if the r1-torn to the throne can be made by any fighter, Dempsey is the man. The over' fftrl roiirdi and a 1 1 Fltsmimons and the original "hollow shall and poisoned cream mail," James J. Jeffries, were in no such condition as this when they made their fforts to regain the championship of One last iriirnp lie i-i-i and i.i! of the tearinc, I hw-iiins, msitsling Dempsey who will make bis supreine eft rt against Gene Tunney next Thursday right, was provided at the race ra -k this bright, sanny afternoon.

K. I'artner. knoi ked Uy Ri 11, one f.f ids burly out. with one of the oM-tim- Dempsey I'-ft hooks to the jaw. Rooky was carried out of the ring, and Dave Shade wept bobbing in cautiously to finish the round.

Apparent! nt" his dd. flii.c, w-ii ai-ailist Tin" It was workout th; ppiii Dempsey wi'l fisht one "aiTiiiiar, tia ff noted, fieif. aggresMve lights icy. during the final he is better adapted to in to the mariner which he ned veiotc "I'll curry She fight to hint, surf from the bell," promiser1 Jack a.s he lay on th" ri pi'inr table. "I'li try to I ab vra- sr.

tfi. 'a, Marquis of Douglas, Amateur Champion, On His Way to Bout WMIK, Ift Thr Mnritii nf Dmiirlnt nd irf Hamilton eetiiind ami HTinfrnr elf ftn -icht etitttniiton ef thut tmrf ef Brittiut. iiitivkI hrrr on the Anehor Pint- 4 rtrnrroroti ftnif left a fv iiitf-r f'-r tlirttcn. h-rr hr "ill uttetld the rhiini)onlii flifhl Tlitirdny 'if Jiiirinjf hix vonLtr from fllatow thr toitrriuls boirrl it fi luo uilfir of tti-hr: n-riKhl In and a frtv ft-hiintiotiv with mt-roatn etdlrtrr Mr ili ttHfi ('Iff. Ilir iniirqiii-.

-Ih ifh frienrit. at l.ukr roret. 111,, mil II ftrr the hn.niplonlip buttle. Hr plans to mil for SroflaiKl Oetohrr TI. down upon him and Gene at Soldier had gone back on mi.

Hut the s'urdy have been perfunctory. In the? brown underpinnings grew stronger warm afternoon sunshine, the Denip- and springier each round. fry of old stood out. Whether or not he proves the bet- The entire camp exudes confidence. ter man of Thursday, Jack ha.s won "Throw out his Philadelphia tight," his flght to return to physical fight-said Klynn the vernacular of the i ing form in which to battle for the race track.

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