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K1000THE LIFE OF THENEW NONPAREIL[iimiiiiiii tun mu iiiiiiiiii mi iiiiiiiiit tint WARREN JV.CHAPTER SIX.AFTER his harrowing adventure* in the wilds of New York, while pursued by Iho ferocious John the Barber, Dempseylonged for hla former stampinggrounds He began to realise that his Salt Lake training was hotter suited to Salt Lake than It was to New York City. Ills first pair ofmanagers had brought h'm nothing but trouble, and he hadn’t as yet arrived nt the point where he could consider John the Barber In the role of a comedian. There were nomatches in sight Just then, and no one to get any for him, had thera been a chance, so the young heavyweight aspirant turned hla steps in the general direction of the nearest railroad yards, ultima to destination. Salt Lake; route of travel, that depends; mariner of same—well, what would you do If you were broke In New York, and Just had lo get back homo in Salt Lake?Jack finally reached Salt Lake, Just how is nobody's business, wo take it. Jack Is rather aenaltltu about this portion of his career, anu the champion miner Is fearful lest some one might class him, using his own phraseology, ‘‘as a bum. That ho has NOT. He was simply attending a couple of extra practical lectures In the school of experience. And the main thing is, he »altLake. Incidentally, we d like to call UH such n guy as Jock Dempsei prior lo the “exposure of his business with Jim Flynn. By all the rules and regulations of sportdom. poetical Justice, etc.. Jack should have been a dead one from the dale ol that “business affair on Tfat. in hlfe case, matters worked In Just tho opposite direction makes for tln» argument, when In the course ^f hu-,, Averts It becomes neccssarj lutnko into consideration the l,resclt* dav heavywnteht performers, Jao.DEMPSEY WILL BE0Sicninc riicv Dl IP.lo your attention the! fact that this young chap seems to have tha happj faculty of getting wherever he starts, If the powers that berperrnlt thiB embroil between Dempsey and Fulton ou the Fourth, II might he Just at) won to have that above sentence, in thefiles.Dempsey dubbed around Salt Lako for a time, and then hooked up hi hla copartnership with Jim Flynn, took that now famous clout on tho chin, collected what was due him and called it, quits. Again calling you» attention to the fact that Jack was long on managers, but decidedly short on good advisers and experience. Jaci% had ILfJgurerl out or was told, that the“business*' with Flynn would go intothe record book and stay there. Hedidn't know that some .ghosts get up and jvitlk around, that some dead ones absolutely refuse to He down. Many's the time, since Jack took that punch on the chin, for a consideration. that he*d liko to ha\o it back, jack. In one sense, is vastly Uko th« chosc-n few other humans. He makes mistakes. Another was his tangling up with John tho Barber. But n one sense he was more fortunate In picking out his situations that go In tha record ns Ms pasl.Now that we've come to think or It just how many people kr.cw thereRENO RACINGriENO r.ESULTS,Flrft rtc*« four furlong*—I’ink Tcnnj\ HE(I'milcyh.WJO, tJ-W. I2». won; Ci11‘ 1W(Mlllal. ib^. rerood; Prlnte Direct, 11?(Gloss), 1?.*0 tblrd. Time, 2-P. Also ron:SliamrocV Green, Snow Qucod, Mitle Joe. Lijllo Dire; Sur Belle Sky B*U m.I tiLaiaroekGreen coupled In tfttlei?. Dlcknell entry.Second r*«P* five f'Jrkng»-J*rnl- Cr*wfoM.Ill (PauleyI, 17.tO, *f. U-«0. won; Smiling Anna.Ill (Fecnty), second; i’ervcTfre. 113(Ifirrlngtoti), third. Time. 1:01. Al«* rsmRlcli Note. Joj. LoulJeU t»*dy. J. l. bUBSfisledoTitJ. Ls llclle Uroende. Scratched, HUioeh*PTbtn?^fP. fir, furlongs—Striker 113 riUJh-cwti woo; bOTcrclffn II. IlltnkMi. JIAO, »rS^»fwn^En^r.?r;-2-Dempsey la DIFFERENT. Words to this effect were Bpread across tho puco some time ago.Dempsey's field, of activity in ana around Salt Lake became bo limited, following the Flynn episode, that ho decided to visit tho coast cities, traveling under tho guidance of Fred Wlnaor, who enacted the rolo of manager No. 3.Wlnaor was as highly successful In managing Dempsey as were PrJco and John the Barber. It's largely a matter of personal opinion which on-9f the thren deserves tho palm, At all events, Dempsey broke with Wln-Bor, and it Is barely possible that Freddie now wishes that he had retained some eort of a “scrap of paper, similar to that supposed to be held by John tho Barber, whereby much publicity might be secured.Dempsey's experiences with his first three managers had the effect ot causing him to consider the Ilfo of a professional boxer about as pleasant as n collision with a torpedo or two. To say that Jack was disgusted is not hitting tho Underwood keys in anything like tho correct fashion. And, ub usual, after thinking the tiling over, he decided to go back to work and forget all about a career with the padded rnltts.Just about this time one Jack Kearns, erstwhile manager of Billy Murray ’'Red*' Watson nr.d a few other luminaries In the boxing game, went to San Francisco, having In tow-one In2a, linguist, educated guy, matinee Idol, in fact, everything hut a wrostler. And unfortunately for Kearns, Irra Insisted on Indulging In J list that one branch of endeavor of which he knew the loet—wresting. What happened to Irza is a matter of public record, All we'ro concerned in Is the fact that Kearna Was in San Francisco, with an office, and nothing to put In It—a manager, with no one to manage.Kearns was out one evening with Eddie Kane, manager of Mika Gibbon*, when the pair bumped Into At Norton, at that time one of tho best known of the coast heavyweight colony. Norton was in company with Dempsey and Introduced him to Kearns, adding that Jack was a Uke-tv looking sort of a chap, and It might(Continued on page 4.)
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Salt Lake City Salt Lake Herald
Salt Lake City, Utah, US
Sun, Jun 30, 1918
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