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mal-'ajid his heart ia still with his old asspclfu.es and his, own people out west. ? His fondest‘memories are of his days on the road.Ho may change if he gets to bo champion. They generally- do. I suppose it's a good even money bet right now that if Dempsey beats-Willard .he will first be hailed as the greatest fighter-the world, has ever seen, and in the same breath we willbe told-that there is no man. in. tholand of the .living fit. to even suggest meeting Our Jack.Whereat, and whereupon, Dempsey will probably go . circus-Ing or burlesque-ing around, raking in the dough and studiously avoiding the moil and turmoil of the ring until such time as.the populace begins to proclaim him a large ham and a big stiff and whatnot. ‘For such, my friends, is the way of the heavyweight pugilistic champions, and the way of the populace, and such have been both ways for quite a/‘.spell. You really can't blame the champs, but you do blame ’em. And there you nr elBut if Jack. Dempsey -should chance .to .be that unusual and wholly irregular chanip. -who doesn't change; who passes up the circus and the bulrlesque, and who continues in the occupation for which nature seems to have intended him; who gives the Meehans and the Mlalecs and the Wills, and the like, all a crack at his title, then I say ha is going to be a most popular figure, indeed.For I tell you. Jack Dempsey can fight. Shoulders shimmying, head bobbing and fists flying—biff! bang —how he can- fight! And all the world loves a fighter who can fight and who will fight!The end.Copyright. 1919,.by Damon Runyon.SULLIVAN IN BOUTHERE ON JULY 3. Frankie Sullivan, the tough. Pacific coast lightweight who fought Otto Wallace, in .one of the best fights seen hore, 'has asked for a match here with some good opponent and Promoter- Whitney will arrange a match and has- set the date for July 3.at the Auditorium. Ho will endeavor., to gel; ,Johnny. Noyn or some one of the same, calibre to go into the ring with Sullivan'. Sullivan has been, training hard ever since his fight hero and is said to be in tho best of condition. He claims that he would have stopped Wallace had he fought him later, as be had just been discharged from the army and was not in the best of shape.IX CONCLUSION.By Damon Runyon.XXVII. . '•I have been anxious to • get through with my “Tale of Two Fiats” before Jack Dempsey meets Jess Willard an Toledo on July 4th, because of the posslblity that on that occasion my hero's chin may inadvertently meet up with one of Jess' big. -bony grub-grabbers.The story of tho life of an owner of a chin which has met with such misadventure naturally ceases to be of absorbing, interest. It. is- worth not more than'a nickel a yard.So. then, I am concluding, and ir. concluding let me say that I have had to leave out of this yarn quite a few of the most thrilling hobo experiences of Jack Dempsoy. I have had to leave out to get in moro of Ids ring history, for afUr all. this 1s the story of a prizefighter, rather than of a ‘bo.Someone else can write, * 'em if Jack gets to be champion, and maybe get a good price for 'em; how ho got In jail at Milford. Utah; with twenty-seven others; of his singular arlvantu»fw with poatoffiro. robbers In West Virginia when he had gone down there to visit the old home of his people—a jaunt, I have touched upon not at all, of a series of unusual happenings in- Cincinnati,- of all this, and much moro. Cor I have confined my so if mainly lo‘ tho high spots. .. •The nlghr. Frank Moran and Jack Dillon fought m Brooklyn, which was the s.-. me night Ale ran came aboard v-dUi a waistline-.like an old washerwoman unci got a'reyai American plastering from the little ’giant Dempsey 33L on ucoal pile opposite the yard where tho men met. ...He- had tried vto ‘ crash” the gate, but was coldly turned down by the .ticket smi takers. So he sat on the coal pile and listened to the cheers of tho multitude .as Dillon smacked • tho big blond Pittsburgher.It . was .summer and ‘. Dempaoy More an ice cream ouit of ..cloLhes oj.*- of • those vei y light-colored af.’ /airs. Tho coal pile • left its-cruel marks all .ovcr Ma raiment. Somehow Dempsey seems to- keep remembering Lhat incident and-much might be mnrle of it.- -Hut 1 must on and get through.Jack went out to. Denver before his fight, with Fulton and hit -poor old Arthur Pelky one good punch,knocking. . him for. a considerablegoal. Arthur.is the fellow'who .accidentally killed: Luther McCarthy, one of the most promising heavyweights that-had rcome along in years. Maybe, the reason• every fellow who met Arthur . afterwards knocked him out so quickly was to keep him from killing them, too.Dempsey .saw Fultpn in Denver on that occasion and talked .with him. Some time later . Jack was again in Denver, on his way back east from his second meeting’, with WillieMeehan, when he ran 'into Jess Willard: Kearns was with- Dempsey at the time and Kearns had- been writing a lot. of letters to the newspapers demanding a match for Dempsey from Willard. ■This was hot Dempsey's first roest-ing .with tho champion,’ but it was th«- first - time ■ hi -had talked -withAMERICAN LEAGUEChicago ..............28New York ............25Cleveland'.........1...26St. Louis ____.......'.22Detroit ...............20Boston...............38 :Washington ..........15. :Philadelphia ______..... 9Yesterday’s Results.Detroit, 8; Washington, 5.St. Louis, 1; New York, 0.No other games scheduled Games Today.Chicago at Philadelphia.St. Louis at New York.Detroit at Washington.Cleveland at Boston.NATIONAL LEAGUENew York .........29 13 .690Cincinnati ........27 38 .600Chicago ....... 24 20 .645Pittsburgh ....Y......23 '21 .623Brooklyn .... I...21 .25 .457St. Louis .........,..20 24 .455Philadelphia...........15 24 .385Boston ............ .14 28 . ,333Yesterday’* Results.-New York, 5; Chicago, 4.Brooklyn, 3; St. Louis, 2.Boston, .1; Cincinnati. 1.. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh not scheduled. vGames Today.New' York at Chicago.Boston at Cincinnati.Brooklyn at St. Louis. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh.• i... 11« m Yesterday’s Results, AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.•Louisville, 4; JCansas City, 2. Columbus. 8; Milwaukee, 4.Other games postponed, rain.westetrn league.Wichita. 6; Oklahoma. .City, 5. 'Oklahoma City, 9; Wichita, 2.Des Moines, 21; St. Joseph, 1 (12innings).. St. Joseph, 11; Des Moines, 1. Joplin, 6; Tulsa, 0.Tulsa, 6; Joplin, €.: Omaha, 5; Sioux City, Q.Omaha, 10;- Sioux City, 9,Saturday's Results.NATIONAL LEAGUE.New.York, 1-9-2; Chicago, 0-4-0. Philadelphia, 1-6-0; Pittsburgh, 8-16-0.Boston, 6-13-0;. Cincinnati, 9-14-L Brooklyn. 1-5-0: St. 7xmls, 2-9^1.AMERICAN:LEAGUE. Cleveland, 3-15-0; Boston,- 2-9-0 (13 innings).St. Louis, 2-6-l;.New York, 7-10-0. Chicago, 6-14-0; Philadelphia, 3-14-3 (14 innings). . .. .Detroit. 5*13-0; Washington, 7-12-2.\\T5STER’N~XiEAGUE.*• Sioux City,.3: Omaha, 5.Oklahoma .City, 9: Wiohita, Q. Tulsa^- S;. Joplin, *9/ ’ • • v' Dm Moine*, 2; St Joseph. 0.
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