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LAIT SAYS GAMBLERS WON THE PRILL Y BOUT r* . ; . Jack Lait, famous sport writer, sizes up the Philadelphia bonanza battle in the accompanying article written for The Producers News, a few reveal ing sentences of which are; "It took no sharpshooter to call the turn. It required no refwee or meticulously chosen judges. Before Jack Dempsey, the killer of old, had dragged his listless and lifeless carcass half way across the soggy ring at the clang of the opening gong, it was a foregone cinch. The man was unfit to fight. And of Tunney: "The first good heavyweight that me«ets Tunney will beat him. Munn. Hanson, Persson—not to say Wills —would swallow him like an oyster." "Anyway, the bookies paid off on him." • I • ; • ! • ' * By JACK LAIT. Special Ringside Correspondent. Philadelphia. Sept. 24.—The shell of what was once a great champion has paid that toll which the proverb says must be served to youth. JacR| Dempsey, who, at his worst can al- ; ways tell his children's children that he once was a champion, lost like a ! dog in the sequi-centennial stadium j Thursday to one Gene Tunney, who,, though he is the champion, will nev er be a champion. The heavyweight title, proudly owned by Sullivan. Corbett, Pltz- | simmons,' Jeffries, has indeed fallen I into a low estate in the stewardship | of the intellectual Tunney. At least j three men fought in the prelimin-1 aries who could lick him the best I day of his life, which is today. The lamb slew the butcher, yes. But it was an active, vigorous lamb and a wearv, sagging old butcher who showed upon a face that once famous for its perfect delinea- | a care- j was tion of the fighting man, worn and tortured expression. "Experts" Off. experts" who said that Dempsey was in the pink of fight ing condition should wash their mouths with soap. This veteran re porter, who has taken in every im portant boxing match of his period, and that ranges back a few year:*, has never seen a sorrier defender of a title since that pitiful afternoon in Reno, when Jim Jeffries stag gered forth to do battle with John son. The Dempsey Unfit. It took no sharpshooter to call the turn. It required no referee or meticulously chosen judges. Before Jack Dempsey, the killer of old, had his listless lifeless cass half way across the soggy ring at the clang of the opening gong, it was a foregone cinch. The man was unfit to fight. No contender in history ever got the break that Tun ney did—weighing 186 pounds, a de fensive boxer, a so-so hitter and a S-to-1 outsider, catching the cham pion of champions in such a situa tion and coming out the monarch of 'pwgilism. The whole business was off key. Fancy a heavyweight king, who drew 132,000 people and $2,000,000 never been introduced, and the al leged aspirant not even rising to take a bow when his name was called. It Was Raining. It was raining. Tex Rickard ha<f taken his pitcher to the well once too often. He had put on seeming ly endless preliminaries, meaning less combats between unimportant nobodys, until far after nine-thirty. And by the time Dempsey and Tun ney got into the ring, it was pour ing so that no one cared much about anything. Then they started taping —yards and yards of gauze they wound about the hands of the sup posedly two best gladiators in the whole world. And when it finally started, it was wetter than ever, that notorious devastating mauler, shuffled out of his corner with the look of a school boy caught playing hookey—as indeed, he had, for more than two years. Dempsey, Tunney Nervous. Tunney was as nervous as a bride, sparring, backing, boxing until it dawned on him that he was roped in with a phantom, a shadow without substance. Even then he never assumed the aggressive, except in the last two rounds, when he had the champion ship in his hand and should have taken no chances. An astoundingly stupid fighter is this Tunney. He won every round from what had been a truly miracu lous champion, and yet he came forth convicted of almost even.- mis demeanor known to smart ring gen eralship. He could have knocked Dempsey out in the first round if he had forced his way; he should have dispatched him in any of the following rounds. But when he had the world to gain he was careful, and when he was already champion before the decision that made him so, he was undecided, now forcing it, again taking to his heels. Dempsey Green. Dempsey was a pathetic spectacle. He started with his face green. Set in a silly grin. He tried to put on 1 the snarl of the murderer, but his features wouldn't respond because his heart wasn't in it. After he got : a few cracks to his jaw, he folded eleven up as he did in the first rounds of his match with the late Bill Brennan. Spitting gobs of blood, his left eye closed tight, his right cut and Weal ing from a ragged wound, he bobbed , and croused and missed and swung and puffed and tried to look fero Like a grotesque, synthetic thing, his tailor-made nose stood forth in the middle of the face like som« fantastic butterfly that had fluttered into a slaughter-house. 0008. Misses a Mile, Tunney, a second-class defensive boxer, couldn't stay away from him. Dempsey kept leading, following, plunging in and missing a mile, arm Tunney had to strike at him thru a sense of shame. It would have been a sin not to hit him under the circumstances. Dempsey scarcely laid a glove on Tunney. The few times that he did connect, always at the start of a round, those blows which of old were enough to send the crowd home were steamless, spiritless and sting- ! les». No power, no heart no soul in them. Dempsey rpÄv have enter- 1 ed the ring' Pro ah 'honest désra and in t ent ion w in. h n t rr -f a i ft ri ■ him after the first counter punch ; that nailed him on his nice new nose, casional sporadic flurry of going ; through the gestures of fighting, The whole tragedy just showed ; again that being a champion spoils a pood fighter, and keeping out of ! against a fighter that kept moving; ' and Tunney did that—he kept mov ing. mostly backward but still kept moving. Jack loves them big, chored and flat-footed. Tunney is \ none of these. He made a sucker der for the job. Bookies Won. The first good heavyweight that, meets Tunney will beat him. At best he is one of the better lighter heavy men, no matter what his weight. Munn. Hanson. Persson— mH to say Wills—would swallow him like an oyster. And he is the heavy weight champion todav. ANYWAY, the BOOKIES PAID OFF ON HIM. Dempsey Weak. After that "he stalled, with an oc the ring kills a champion. Dempsey never was much shucks out of our Jack, being made to or Walter Hill Figures in Divorce Triangle (Continued from page One) ing comparisons of the Montana and Minnesota laws to determine which action for divorce will take legal preference, being served by publication of legal summons and should the St. Paul service be made by publication there The Montana case is remains the difference in time re quirdti by the laws of the two states which case would be legally ready for trial. By completing the service in St. Paul a day ahead of that in Montana it is said by members of the legal fraternity the Minnesota suite would take preference over that started in Montana in spite of the fact that it is believed here that the Montana service of summons by the publica tion started a day earlier than no tice of suit filed in St. Paul. Owns Well Stocked Ranch Walter Hill has been in Park county for several weeks attending to business matte#ü**nd until Friday was at the Mura y hotel in this city. Efforts to reach him by phone or otherwise Friday night were una vailing and the word was given that he was not in. Other than the fil ing of his suit, nothing has been heard from the Montana side of the Hill family controversy. Mr. Hill's time here for the most part has been spent inspectng the fall operations on his extensive ranch in the upper Shields river valley where he has one of the finest stocked properties in the Treasure state. In June, 1921, the Rumley Thresher company obtained an attachment on property owned by James M. Stewart and bid in the tract at Sheriff's sale : In January of the same year the same property claiming that the affi- 1 davit of attachment made by the, thresher company was defective and * that Stewart still was owner of the Pr TÜdaim was transferred to R. E. I Patch and he brought suit to quiet ; title in his favor, with the argument that because of the faulty proceed ings in the thresher company case, ; the court did not acquire jurisdiction to make the first sale. He lost in the lower court. ROOSEVELT LAND SUIT APP EALED Supreme Court Hears the Argument Over Ownership of Tract Twice Sold Under Attachment Proceed ings. Helena—Ownership of a tract of land, twice sold under attachment proceedings, is at issue before the supreme court in an appeal filed from Roosevelt county. Trace Bribery Bonds to Daugherty s Bank of Justice testified to a list of de posit slips and day book pages miss ing. They covered accounts of Har iy M. Daugherty and Mal S. Daugh erty. The witness said that during his investigation of the Midland (Continued from page One) Bank books he found no other cus tomer's deposit slips missing. Introduced to King. Richard Merton, the German fin sneier. who said that he paid the Daugherty gang $391.000 in Liberty bonds, had testified he met the late John T. King, Connecticut politician. who introduced him to Jesse Smith, close friend of Daugherty, and that la f er he placed in touch with Miller. He testified they gave King a "retainer" of $50,000 and also tbe $391.000 in Liberty bonds. A_ _k* tJ °P CrS *** Caught by Roosevelt Cops - WOLF POINT—Ida Sobolenke, 17 a Russian girl, and Mike Barkid, 19, Assyrian, a farm hand, eloped from Bonetrail, N. D., and were picked up here by the sheriffs office. William County, North Dakota sher iff took the couple back to Williston the same day. Barkid was arrested under warrant of abduction. The couple had intended to be married hem They came by car aa far as Culbertson wefe unable .to cop tinde because of oacT roads, so ar rive d • her e by tra ft: The ■ > *7 ■■ÉÉ/'S v .• v vw-Äv . ; a . :\S > J • i j £<■ r Jack Dempsey .am a B funeral strike against the impenaj asking for a loan of i-2o0,000 * rom . Cantonese government ana got lt Chinese Nationalists - l/: O W e e p lO Victory (Continued from page One) j Marshal Chang Tso-lin is throwing up earthworks around Peking, with one eye to the advance*of (jeneral . Feng, from Kalgan and another on the southern armies. Chang is chop -1 ping off heads of mutinous soldiers and it is believed here that when either of the two national armies come within gunshot of Chang's troops they will walk out on him. I I Chang Fortifies Peking. British Government Worried. London, Sept. 24.—Nothing less than consternation prevails in gov ernment circles over the situation in China. The cotton interests have been bringing pressure to bear on the government for more vigorous action. British trade in China has been hit hard by the boycott. Tex tiles suffered particularly. The British claim to have infor mation that Japan is preparing ror war. This intelligence is however, believed to be for -American con sumption, with the object of get ting the United States into logger heads with Tokio and forcing the latter into common action with Bri tain or else inducing the United States to back up Britain agamsi China. 1 « * CANTON MAY GET BRITISH RECOGNITION London.—The British cabinet is seriously debating a reversal of British policy in China which will provide for recognition of the Can ton government and a practical ignoring of the faction of a gov ernment at Peking. The plan is to recognize as a de facto gov ernment any real independent power in the various provinces, but since Canton is the strongest, it implies a practical recognition of Canton and repudiation of Pek ing. i Die-Hards Oppose. By this means it is hoped to make « some sort of compromise with the S rising nationalist revolutionary gov- Ä ernment of Canton., This is, of j ER course, bitterly opposed by the die hard imperialist elements both in ' the London cabinet and those ruling in the British settlements in China, 1 particularly Hongkong. ; rg Hongkong has suffered, and Brit- j js£ ish trade has suffered enormous j gî losses by the boycott laid against j Hongkong by the Cantonese. The k? Canton government now offers withdraw the boycott in return for ijS certain extra taxes to be given to j m the Canton authority. ' ' * * * * re nted. ****** *• word ; to s 150,000 OF WU PFI FE'S ARMY REVOLT • Shanghai.—Two of Marshal • j Rg Wu Pei-fu's supporters. Generals • |sjs • Tien Wei Chin and Chin Yu Nao. • ! x receivde here today from Han- • , kow. The revolt was said to • ; have been precipitated by the * I JîR execution of General Tien Wei • Chin's chief brigadier general. * More than 150.000 troops are in- * volved in the revolt, it is ported. ♦ A * * • V re- • BB ♦ I COMING! Walker MINSTRAL SHOW HUMBMABW ■ TEMPLE I iÇv 1 ■ ! Wednesday, October 1 3th Awful Funny Remember theTime •and Placé - ' 1 - - - having them point their hands to wards the ceiling he ordered them to put them down while he sat beside 1 Ç raze t "Hold-Up" Man Gets iwo Y ears in Penitentiary - 1 (Continued from page One) sheep and apparently getting tired of them mumbling and watching them closely. While two diners sat at a table across the way sat glued to their seats the man sitting next to the holdup leisurely walked to the paying desk, planked down the price of his meal and strolled out the door, Kelly looked and laughed but still kept his vigil over Gross and Philips, While all this was happening Jim Popesku was standing behind the ! kitchen door with a cleaver waiting, for the appearance of the gunman at the door. His brother Posko went ! out and found Deputy Sheriff i "Shorty" Bantz who immediately pro- ■ ceeded to the cafe and putting his j arms around Kelly, told him to drop his gun and placed him under arrest, j ■nrcnrv x Bi 9 Ä! YES I » buying their footwear from us. Why? Because they get better values for theis money than by sending away to mail order houses. We expect your trade and expect to hold it so we must give you better shoes for less money... Don't forget that you can't buy shoes from pictures to fit the feet... 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That Kelly was not a reg ular holdup man but was acting un der the influence of some drug was evident when he failed to pay any at tention to the cash register or any^ef the other guests. It later developed that he had been using canned heat. as a stimulent having purchased a dozen cans in a local hardware store. Kellv is well known in the Outlook country where he comes every- year at harvest tmie. He is a good work er in the harvest fields and consid ered an expert around a threshing rig. .After a spell of work he is known to look for relaxation to moon shine and when he fails to find that to "Dehorn" as as it is commercially known "Canned heat. , . . , . terfere with the sphere of activities i of his county paper. Besides attend mg to the public and private af fairs. of the officers of Divide and Williams Counties. North Dakota and the varigated collection of edi j tors therein. he has his say on the politics of Sheridan County. Mon 1 tana. He seems to want most of IN THE LIMELIGHT (Continued from page One) the of(ieere oïer hert defelt . ed but fails to recommend any of 1 the candidates on the so-called re publican ticket here for election. Paulson does not like the K. K's. or the K. C's. and for that reason is unable to back any of the candidates running against the Farmer-Lahor ites in Sheridan County. He would Like to defeat the Farmer-Labor ticket here but then ho fears the will be worse than what he Paul is on cure considers the disease, the horns of a dilemma but wo pre diet that he will soon come to the conclusion that the "Devil you know is better than the Devil you don't know" and w|ll throw the mighty influence of the great family intra ! state Journal behind the farmer la bor candidates in Sheridan County. - ! LARRY DOBELL AND MARTIN i HUTCHINS two of the old gladia ■ tors of capitalist journalism m the j state have just landed on the scrap heap. They are to be replaced by j other men who are the expression c 4 our modo™ "efficiency" and "ser vice era. Some Ume ago Poter Snelson, another oldtime bunkshoot er on the M«"*" 13 Daily vien^spa pers was shunted out of his job on the Billmgs Gazette by some un known "efficiency expert. Dick Kd roy editor of the Anaconda Stan dard, went out the same door a short time ago. Ev^ently the own ers of the interlocking press are bent on making the editorial polic> t the majonty of the people of the , state are forced to swallow, more standardized and irtiiform. But they are making a mistake. A ou can standardize the production of cop lumber but not brains. The who occupy the editorial per , new- men . . chairs are only a poor substitute for the scribes above mentioned who chloroformed the public while the big interests picked their pockets, While the editorials of Dobell, Hu chins, Kilroy and Snelson did not carry much w eight with the Public recently it must be admitted that their system of presenting the news, in the interest of the big corpora effeefive if we are or I lions was very to judge from the present poisoned state of public opinion. But, the passing within the past few months. of the men who wrote the editorials j on such papers as the Butte Miner, Anac onda Standard, the Billings azette an d the Missoula Missouli y a arter of a cen - f rp . thin or is an exent of more than or i din ai T siS* 1 * lcan % I ' . CANDIDATE HERE i Albert Almberg of Archer was a Plentywood visitor Thursday. Next Monday he is leaving for Calgary, Canada where he goes to put in the next month threshing. Albert is the candidate for County Commis . , a- i ,a tt sioner on the democratic ticket, tie informed a representative of the Producers News that should he be elected he will return to the county in time to take the oath of office. Chinook — Utah-Idaho Sugar fac-l tory- here will handle 45,000 tons of beets this year. Beets now test up to 16.1 percent sugar, with 14.8 av erage. Forsyth — Heavy shipments of sheep and cattle begin. Large acre age of winter wheat being sown. y MONTANA WEEKLY INDUSTRIAL REVIEW • The popular mercantile , * • of Moe and Moore. Ä flr * « ceeded the W e i ss Ca ^ ch »*- • mor e than a yera ago h, ; t0f * * . purchased by on* of ,K * • ners and will henceforthL Part ' * * ducted under the sol. • s hi p of 0 A . Moore, the j*, u| ' " T ' A. * the Producers News \ * « e?iht years retireg • firm and a j return* • fcie< . ■ th nri Un ^ his d u .. . Koducers ° f »*• * tion he has followed nr 0cctt Pa- ' * all his Ufa d praft 'caily • * The Producers New* ioi many friends of the * in wishing him * his venture. • • MOE and MOORE • . solve partnejIsri, COfl, « °vn«r.. J. • an of.| Past • ■ the J°»ns th« • The e b SUCC ^>» * * mccly owned jointly by"** * Partner has grown' to fcr «1° * •one of tho leading bSf™' ' * houses in Plcntywood * enjoyed excellent * from all over this * state. The new a,, d hav« » Patronage » section of th« • , t remaining partner nounces that he will * give the public the * ty merchandise * which has been the * ing feature of its Past. The new name of the fi r ». * be the Moe Mercantile Com » * pany. an- • continu« to » same quali. • at low cost • outstami. * success in the • * • • • Havre—Heavy crop increase do. m ands 15 more freight crews to W die shipments, Ha\ r Where 700 individual p er5 h a( i shipped livestock tember 4 last tj^s up to Sep-] year, 1400 have shipped! year. The wanton destruction bv fire 4 a tree that might have grown p.td 1 a usable asset is inexcusable. It 3 an assault on the whole human r?ct| Hamilton — Growers ship three i cars strawberries to Chicago in owl , week, worth $8,052. Trident—Cement plant will October 1, with full crew of 140 Helena—State will let five kiet way contracts, Sept. 21. for near! 20 miles. Anaconda—City will pay $32,50 j for resurfacing West Park Avant Great Falls — Julian Petrolem company and California Eastern0 company, $30,000,000 corporatioi will open offices here. ope r.