Modest Jack

Jack Dempsey discloses that his pen is punier than his punch in the attached gem, under his signature, syndicated in the nation's press:

"Poor little me!"

If George Godfrey, my Negro sparring partner, ever knocked me out, it must have been while I was asleep. He certainly never did it while I was awake. And never since he has been in my camp has he ever shaken me up.

"Once I let George step a little--permitted him to make a neat showing. That was the day a Negro musical show played in Great Falls, and the entire cast came out to see what George could do. I let George do it that afternoon so as to please his guests."

Subsequent advices from Great Falls, Mont., where the champion is training for his fight with Gibbons, show that he shattered the jawbone of an oxlike sparring partner--one Ben Wray, seven-footer from Oklahoma--in a sparring bout. One thousand visiting Shriners paid $500 to hear the jaw crack.

Wall Street is betting 5 to 2 on Dempsey over Gibbons, with interest slack and little money in sight.