TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE.
Jack and (earns Bury Hatchet
By OSCAR FRALEY
-United Press International
- New York - MPD - Jack
Dempsey and his old man
ager, Jack (Doc) Kearns, ap
peared today to have ended
boxing's most famous feud.
- They have been playing the
ring's version of the Hatfield
and the Coys for 35 years.
Kearns "made" Dempsey,
earned an estimated $19 mil
lion with him over almost a
decade and then walked out
because Dempsey's wife,
movie actress Estelle Taylor,
"was trying to advise him."0
But they have been brought
together recently, with a pos
sible motion picture deal as
the wedge, and the relation
ship Is blossoming warm and
Cordial.
" It may be a case where,
with Kearns 73 and Dempsey
65, once again they can co
operate for mutual profit.
Neither can make a movie
without the other being a
vital part. The split is being
debated but without any acri
mony. Spoils Split 50-50
i Their division of the spoils
In the old days was strictly
30-50. For Dempsey was a
roughneck refugee from the
tank towns and the hobo
jungles when Kearns picked
him up. Or vice versa.
; "I met Dempsey In a saloon
in Oakland, California, when
I was having an argument
with one of my fighters, a
middleweight named Vic Han
son," Kearns recalls.
"Hanson was sore because 1
hadn't taken him to Australia
with some of my other fight
ers and he was just about to
punch me around when up
steps this rough-lookin' dark
haired stranger. He says he
will flatten Hanson if he does
n't let me alone. Well a fr.
for-all started but Jack and I
managed to get out before the
cops got there."
It was the beginning of a
fabulously productive associ
ation, that 1917 brawl. Kearns
had been a boxer but long
before had decided "to hold
some other bum's coat " He
was more than the craftiest
coat holder in the business.
He taught Dempsey to weave
and box and big Jack's ex
plosive punch did the rest.
Two years later, on July 4,
1919, Kearns had piloted
Dempsey into a Toledo ring
against giant Jess Willard for
the heavyweight chamoion-
ship. Dempsey knocked Wil
lard out in the third and they
really were on their wav.
Marriage Causes Rift
Until 1925, all went well
with the two Jacks. Kearns
did the plotting and the talk
ing. Dempsey kept silent and
did the punching. Then, how
ever, he caused a minor rift
by marrying Miss Taylor over
Kearns' protests. The man-
agerager wanted him to re
main single until he was
through fighting. The break
became complete when
Kearns felt that Jack's wife
was trying to run the show.
Dempsey was acting as his
own manager when he signed
for the first fight with Gene
Tunney in 1926, the one in
which he was to lose the title.
Kearns threatened Dempsey
with a law suit and the breach
grew ever wider. There were
more sub-surface currents at
the time of the second Tun
ney fight.
An attempt was made to
bring the two Jacks together
a few years ago. They shook
hands, however, as If each
privately expected to have to
count his fingers. Kearns de
manded 50 per cent of a mo
tion picture deal then pend
ing and they were farther
apart than ever when Demp
sey refused the deal.
There is no way of telling
whether a picture can be
made even now. Kearns has
visions of his own life being
filmed. Dempsey, what with
interested authors and other
"partners," is cut up in this
venture more ways than a
hangover shave.
But the years have knock
ed off a lot of brittle edges
and their friends are happy to
see them smiling at each
other again.
Rifle Meet
At Ashland
Ashland-Ashland Gun club
will hold its annual smallbore
rifle tournament on KntnrHav
and Sunday, Dec. 3 and 4, at
me national Guard armory in
Ashland.
Firing will begin on Satur
day at 6 p.m. Competitors
from many parts of Oregon
and northern California r
expected. Trophies have been
donated by Ashland mer
chants. There will hp fnnr firnH
matches: Match 1 (20 shots,
prone), match 2, (20 shots sit
ting), match 3 (20 shots knee
line), anrt mntrh 4 f9n chnte
standing). Match 5 will be ag
gregate of these four. Match
6 will be a four-man team
match consisting of the aggre
gates oi tne lour fired events.
w. j. vantiusklrk of Ash
land Will he the nffirinl Nn.
tlonal Rifle association super
visor.
Lunch will ho tprvpH all
day in the banauet roam next
door to the range.
MEDFORDeiWrHIBUNg
SJPdDMTTS
High Schools Slate
Maplecourt Openers
High school basketball ag
gregations of this area, with
exception of the Medford var
sity, go into action this week
end, launching a season which
extends into March.
Crater sophomore and fresh
man teams and St. Mary's Jun
ior varsity and freshmen tip
off competition on Thursday
at Central Point.
Varsity games in Jackson
county on Friday will have
Crater at Eagle Point, Illinois
REED INJURED
Cincinnati, Ohio - UIPll - For
ward Rub Reed of the Cincin
nati Royals will be out of
action for five days because
of a fractured cheek bone,
club General Manager Pepper
Wilson said Monday. Reed
said he thought he suffered
the injury when he was hit
by an elbow in a game against
the Los Angeles Lakers In
New York Nov. 22.
Valley at Phoenix and Glen
dale at Rogue River. Pros
pect will be host for the Jack
son County B league jamboree
or Friday. Medford High's jun
ior varsity will be a partici
pant along with Butte Falls,
St. Mary's and Prospect.
Ashland plays at Eureka,
Calif., that evening.
Games on Saturday include
Ashland at Fortune, Calif.,
Eagle Point at Myrtle Creek,
Rogue River at Glendale,
Phoenix at Illinois Valley and
Butte Falls at Canyonville.
Other games of interest to
residents of this area are
Grants Pass at Crescent City
(Del Norte), Calif., on Friday
and at Yreka, Calif., on Satur
day and Klamath Falls at
Roseburg both nights.
Sydney, the steel center of
Cape Breton, has one of the
finest natural harbors In
North America.
Penn State
Eyes Ducks
Pittsburgh-UlPli-Penn Slate,
"the best team in the East,"
returned to the practice field
at University Park, Pa., today
after a layoff for Thanksgiv
ing turkey and made no bones
about setting its sights on
other fowl-the Ducks of Ore
gon. State Coach Rip Engel, who
pinned the "best" tag' on his
boys because "in the last four
weeks they've done every
thing asked of them," ran the
Nittany Lions through stiff
drills in preparation for their
meeting with Oregon Dec. 17
in the second annual Liberty
Bowl game at Philadelphia.
Oregon will start workouts
at Eugene next Monday.
"This team," said Engel, "Is
the best in the East. I don't
think you can reach any oth
er conclusion. We lost only
to Syracuse in the East and
beat the two teams Army and
Pitt which defeated Syra
cuse." Engel told his team Oregon
is tough. "Len Casanova fields
quite a representative team,
so good defensively that it
limited Washington to only
one touchdown," he said.
The meeting between Penn
State and the W e b f o o t s
matches an eastern and west
ern team In a major bowl for
the first time since Pitt play
ed Washington In the 1937
Rose Bowl.
Team Moved To
Puerto Rico
Louisville, Ky. IUPII T h e
International League has ex
tended Its boundaries to
Puerto Rico by moving the
Miami franchise to San Juan.
Despite a proposal that the
league make Caracas, Vene
zuela, the eighth member,
there is a strong movement
among IL officials that some
way be found to keep a fran
chise in Montreal.
BUI MacDonald, prominent
Florida sportsman who owned
the Miami Marlins, Monday
received approval to transfer
the team to San Juan. League
officials also announced that
the Tornado Maple Leafs
would open the season in the
Caribbean capital April 18.
"We are giving serious con
sideration to Caracas because
it's only about 500 miles from
San Juan," said one league
official.
"Said another: "I'm . not
quite sure that would be a
good move. Some of us feel
we'd do better to stick with
the franchises that have op
erated successfully in past
seasons."
The Los Angeles Dodgers
informed the International
league at the close of the past
season that they will not op
erate a farm in Montreal in
1961. I
Syracuse also has been
mentioned as a prospective
site, should the IL abandon
Montreal.
. A 9
Crater High
Banquet on
Wednesday
Central Point - University
of Oregon alumni who are In
terested In hearing Len Casa
nova speak are reminded by
Lions club officials that the
Crater High school football
oanquei is open to the public.
Casanova, head lnnth.ii
coach at U of O will give th
main talk here at the dinner
at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 30,
at the school here. Central
Point and Gold Hill u0ns are
sponsors of the event which U
an annual affair.
Tickets are available at
Central Point branch of the
First National bank and at the
office of Dr. Max Flowers.
Lions club members have tick
ets, too.
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