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Jack Kearns HasExperienceBV Ah SPINK.Jack Kearns, who is managing Jock Dempsey, has had all sorts of expert en.ee in the handling of prize fighters, good and bad. ,*It was three years ago that Kearns, a “native son’' of California, was showing Eddie Kane things aroundFrisco.Eddie had seen Jack Dempsey, who war then comparatively unknown, box Willie Meehan in the Oakland arena across the bay from San Frranciseo.iixatmgIn FightGameEddie was visiting* on the coast atlight- jsl*5Iho time, showing his two slurs, Mike and Tom Gibbons, in.boxing exhibitions, and both he and his stars thought well of Dempsey.Kearns, who had been managing wrestlers and boxers, was looking for a good man, when one day, as he and Kane were standing on Market street in San Francisco, Dempsey bnished by.“There’s a fighter if you want one,” Paul Kune to Kearns. “He the best , heavy I’ve seen in a long while.”I Kcamc, at the suggestion, got busy and he been Dempsey’smanager off apd on ever since. Kearns, ever since he took hold of Dempsey, has considered him Invincible and the latter's defeat by Mcohap aome as an awful surprise.Surprise Party.“But that wasn't the first surprise party Kearns ever indulged in,” said lied Watson the other night.“Kearns’ greatest surprise,” said lied, ‘Vamc the night Billy Murray met Eddie MeGoorty at Milwaukee. Kearns and I were in Murray’s corner, and for two rounds we came nearly laughing our heads off at the way Murray was trimming MoGoor-ty. “ 4Red/ said 1\earns to pie, ‘thisWelsh and you will be the weight champion. .“ 'Get the idea? We’H have twof world’s champions in our stable 'and well go to Australia and malce a • million dollars/ . ,.“And then, when we had just ;-started tq laugh again, zowie, Me-' Goorty let go of one and landed right ? on Murray’s mush.“I didn’t see the punch land;, it'^ went too fast for that. But I did sco?! Muncy's feet fly from :n under him/? and his shoulders hit the floor. .. ' :$■ “Just then I looked at KearnaM Honestly, he wag as white as a *4 sheet. There lay Murray on his back ii on the canvas, limp as a dead wanlii lie had taken the hardest punchf-'jjl ever saw one man land on another.'^-! But. you know Billy’s a dead gamj.fr Portuguese and at the count of threa i be started to twitch. At four he was % up on his knees and there was Kearirj fi still while as a sheet, but noi* ‘ho!-*} lerin’. like mad, 'Get up, Billy! ‘GeW up, Billy!' ” /i“Get Up. •' y!i “Pid he £c.t up?” some one askelv-°( Rsd- ;• :Vput bis hand? on the floor, Red, ^nd tried hard. Gu^k i i rrmi hav* a little dMfy myself *iabout that time* because I jetntiuber/-yelling something thru the lopes ihat’fj just then it meajii a million dollars';to him to get y.ig‘Look!* screamed Kearns, 'he’i:/ up.’ And just as Kearns said .tJialK; Murray’s elbows gave way and fell flat on his nose. I turnedT.to.I? Kearn-i. It was nil oyer I thought;/?: Bui Kearns' wasn’t there. As Muc-. V*y fell on his face Kearns/jfanw around the ring and there he....... .... ~ ...... ... —— - • * vGuy McGoorty is the middleweighti on the other $ide with his heada G lt;Wm TTa^o llirn IUa wr^noo o%\/J Va#v««{m#b •j champion of the world. He’s the bcit mg thru Iho ropes and begging i.man they’ve got in Hie East and here ray to get up.” •they’ve got in llic East and along comes Murray and makes himlook like a sucker,1” ’»“Then we both laughed some more and slapped encb other on the shoulder. .u ‘Bed,1 said Jack, ‘bj\ck horo’they think that McGopytyia £ \v$r\lt;lcr.* Bet Du lie Clark goyj.d lick hilP- T%U y°l* what I'll do. When • Murray, |^tsthru ilcktue McGoorty tonl^t • h* will bo the middleweight ehampwf.ray to get up “And did he got vip • this ? tiinl?”. an anxious listener asked.,• Yes,” said KH ’’W? time /' *'1;;* up. How he got.up I dop't khow.IS'jii at the coupt of; ten ho yfls on'hiifiij and reeling around like a;d.ruirdMPri man. JfcCioorty ’never, touched j 2C My again. ».*• («(■ %aiaaa a mm tk M 4 a at • V M J « hh* * ' K •mcision on.that ^va? 'vmiFUj .tM
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Hamilton Daily News
Hamilton, Ohio, US
Mon, Nov 17, 1919
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