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THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
SATURDAY MORNING
JULY 5, 1919
DEMPSEY
BECOMES WORLD CHAMPION
MATTY
AT RINGSIDE
Toledo, Ohio, July 4. - Jack Dempsey, the new
champion, will remain in Toledo until at least
Sunday night, his manager, Jack Kearns, announced
tonight.
"We have a dozen theatrical offers," Kearns said, "and
Jack will probably open in vaudeville
next week."
Dempsey's first request after winning the title, was
that a message be sent his mother, Mrs.
Cecelia Dempsey, in Salt Lake City. "Your boy made good.
Knocked the big fellow out in three
rounds," the telegram read.
"Willard is a game fellow," Dempsey declared. "I never
handed out more punishment to
anyone and have him come right back for more as Willard did
today."
Dempsey made a hurried change to his civilian clothes
after his victory and was taken in an
automobile to his headquarters in a downtown hotel. Hundreds
of admirers greeted him as he
alighted from his car at the hotel and the lobby rang with
Dempsey cheers for more than 15 min-
utes.
The crowd was so great at Dempsey's hotel the new
champion was forced to make an exit
through the back door in order to reach the union station,
where he went to greet a number of
friends who had traveled from Philadelphia on a special
train. Dempsey received another ovation
at the railway station and had to again make an escape in
order to keep the crowd from tying
up traffic.
Salt Lake City, Utah, July 4. -
WHEN GOOD NEWS CAME
Mrs. Celia Dempsey, mother of
the new champion, shouted with
joy when the flash reached her
that her son had won the cham-
pionship.
"I am overjoyed," she said.