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IENO EVENING GAZETTE'.'V .•WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3,1920,, : XZ il --Ipeople.aU.of the lime.''. f ..1 Jack' DemW^a io^a^r. set. out with his protege trying to fool all ‘ the-people. J3e•.told;, them all sorts. or atoriea aboutvDempsey and his begin* ning; stories ,^hat were swallowed :.by some people h|pk, line and sinker.— • . Kearns, whose right name is -McKer-nan, figuring, that anything that‘happened cut on: the Pacific slope. was so much Greek to^iesidents of- that part of the coiin try. lying' east-or the Sierra Nevada mountains; told .strange stories about his. new .find.; 1Those stories derhe mlghvb# hibernating there yet but that one day- Redout son and others of his fighting string ran* oitt 'on' Kimand left^hinj.JUgh,andjfey on the sands of :the Pacific. : *. BY..;At SPINK .* Is Jack! or was Jack a slacken?' Is Jack Dempsey an American?.scribed how Dempsey-was honn- in'the mountalris-of West.Virginia and'of how a,right name was William; Harrison-:mpsey. •. - v -*• ' 'l\hisDempseyr: And the farther East Kearns .went with Dempsey .the-strangerttho.storiqs. Or.ia.;hc, WiUiam Harrison.Dempsey jhe told of his man. Kearns little knew of, somewhere in West Virginia?... ..\then;* nor does^he knlw tovthis day.. Or-.is .the man now known as .Jack . that wjj0n. he was* toiling rthosqOstorios ~ ‘ 1 ‘ hotelwere ...... _ „ . timeasljUhg.; andl ^He lyancy.IV that crowd: who- knew7more'about Dempsey .than which follow the fighting game.neyer he; did and;-who • ihad .seen. Dempseyseem.-to;.tlra_of..askiWI^-.. ’ . • 1 fight long .before Kearns . had^ got, hisToday Dempsey-Ms . In a peck: .otjflrst view. of him., • *; trouble,;and.‘the go.lden. harvest, -which . ,.But .having' started lt;out'on-.a - cam-oply, the other day seemed .within his Jpaign of misrepresentation;‘Koarns .had easy reach, is now in the gloaming. It to keep lt up. andiby keeping it up hoAnd high dntl dry ho. remained untilthe summer- pfagn^It .was thenithat, lackingla bpxeY '.\o ’ manage,' Kearns went to the wrestling game, but, like the boxers,-- the-wrestlers ran out on him. and left'hiro .on*hia ppperfs again, y Thatiwaa.thfc5 year that; Eddie Kane piloted-Mike Gibbons, then the champion .'middjpweight, .and Tom Gibbons, his brotherr to Srpi Francisco. Their coming - made -quite an: impression on. the fight crowd.at; Frisco, *and.all the fighters there~came.-. around to play their respects to-;* tho v Gibbonses and their little mapagor,*-- - -.V;: ’* ... , 'may. .disappear, altogo.ther,. for..Jack is just now in a critical position.. The*;. United1 States ' government’s draft; review department at Washington is gathering all sorts of evidence in relation to Dempsey in its attempt to prove that he gave different answers to different questions put in different cities to him during war-time by members of the various draft boards. _...From; New York, the army, navy.arid civilian board of boxing control has wired to the San Francisco draft board requesting a photographic copy of Jack Dempsey's questionnaire as taken from him in that city during war-time,'They have also wired to another point where Dompsey signed a questionnaire, in which he swore that he was sending, money to his wife through his father at Salt Lake.The same board has also wdred certain posts of the American Legion asking for information on . which they based charges of Dempsey’s answering falsely to questions asked of him while before the various draft boards.This brings Dempsey into a very serious predicament for the government board is.the court.of last resort in I cases of this sort and has the authority to impose even a death penalty. 'has hindcd both Dempsey and. hlmsel/ in a heap of troubled- ‘ * 4:There is an old saying that you can fool timePerhaps through- Ignorance and-a lock of understanding of the amenities of life.Kearns has so often offended no has brought down the wrath of^many on.tlie.head. of his .champion.aud him* self. ...At Salt Lake City, where Dempsoy was known as the son of a patlve son Kearns one day during war-time refused to allow. Jack to appear.at. a benefit for* the SalvationArmy, and when tlic lasses asked for an explanation Kearns bawled 'them out. and said* to them things no gentleman, would-have said to a lady.. .- Of course Kearns did not mean it; He simply did not know any better, but his act brought-down on the head of himself and his boxer the wrath of the Salvation Army the world over..It-Is uncanny incidents of this sort that'has arrayed all sorts :of \people against Kearns and Dempsey.It is not necessary, for me to cross the way to learn.fjf the true history of Dempsey, of his beginning andjiis position now. ; .• '• .- .:.. There are some , good things, ytoo. about the Dempsey family;':.despilo Jack’s war record. His father, Dempsey,, is a fairly, educated man.»Hosome of the peoplo some of the vl?*.vbut that you can't fool all. of tho ^ho littie Jpwn of Lofean,. n West Vir----—--- ginla. . About thirty-five years ago- heWINNIPEG, Man., March 3.—American.: skaters won four of the six events in the dominion skating championships -here, .last night. Mike .jGoodman, of Winnipeg won the 'title with 90 points arid, Charles Jcw.truw Lake Placid,; .who~ obtained all of his*--80 points-through finishing second or third, ,wa». second;Jqe. Mooro of Lake. Placid won the only- two events he entered; the three milie And five mile, after being kept but of the earlier events by\an injury. J, Stowell of Aurora, Ills., won the two mile final and A1 Lcitch,:of;Lake Placid, the one mile. . . 'left the mountains of West. Virginia and moved to Colorado, where, in the San Luis valley, he had a farm which waa situated near Manassn. In. this little town William Harrison Dempsey, the present* Jack Dempsey,, was born and his; birth .is registered there, i . . There was no reason in the world why the date -of Jack's birthplace should have been distorted and so fai\ as known ICearns is mainly responsible for that error. -.. : * - ' .Jack Kearns,-whose right name is Leo McKernan, started out as a bo.\er, one of those ham-and-egg fighters who. box -weekly four-round-bouts over..rin Tommy: Simpson's bD-\lng pavilion at Oakland, always protecting*themselves with • twelve-ounce ;pillo\vs* and taking, care never-to blacken an-eye or. shed, a drop of blood.' .*But oven with . the twolve.-ouncc gloves Kearns or McKernan could make no impression, and so: he started out as a manager, carrying the bucket,..the sponge and ihe towels for Red Watson and other, of the. unfamous boxers who-then hibernated between Frisco, Oakland,' Sacramento, Richmond and other live towns near the Golden-GAte; AndOne of the .ma,ny; to call was Jack Kearns, thc^ki^o^tt'as .Leo.McKernan, and to* the over-ready- r ear., or Eddie Kane he urifolded;;hls^^tale- of woe.-‘ He explained .that hd,?was us clean as a Christmas turkey uthat all’of his string of ‘ boxers ..arid: ^reatlers. had run out on him. arid.UhiiUhe^ must get a newmeal acketorrB^TW.' MMV.llva. aIt happened °that ^ tho -y day -before Ivou all pbout it latorKearria“had’called a finely built;young fellow .had pailt;i Iv;me a visit and asked for a jbb; : Kkne had been' impressed because the caller had said his name was Dempsey, a name that had conjured, up tri Kane’s mind thoughts of another Dempsey, Jack the old “Nonpareil/1 * •*And as Kearns unfolded his tale of woe xwho should appe-ar again but this l^cmpsey person.« 44T^.e^’ Kune to Kearns, pointing at'Dempsey, lucre's your new meal ticket. Gall him just plain Jack Dempsey and go out and beat the world.” : t0?k cuc* »hook hands + I0 1'ewcomcr and. thornext day air.or the San Francisco newspapers in tnelr sport columns told of the comingof another Nonpareil and like theNonpareil' of old he, too, carried the name Jack Dempsey.: But• who was he and..what was he and whore did he really come from?And when Kearns set out with Domp-sey from San Francisco why. did they sail under false names and what, was the reason for the mysterious way inwhich they went?' ;Ah, that's another stoiy and I'll tellTUCKER IS WINNERft .■ . .3• :d• • i'j-I, .. . . ;JAt these and scoresof other equally smartplaces Fatima leads.Atlantic City The Amhassador Marlborough-BtenheimBoston, Mass*Hotel TouraineCambridge, Mass* Harvard UnivcrftityChicago, IlL U Salle HotelNew Haven, Conn* Yale UniversityNew Orleans, La. St- Charles Hold*•New York City Dclmomco’s • Waldorf-Astoria-../L*Philadelphia, Pa.Ritz-Carltou Hotel . 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Reno Evening Gazette
Reno, Nevada, US
Wed, Mar 03, 1920
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