Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1919 — JESS WILLARD AND PARTY PASS THROUGH THE CITY. [ARTICLE]

JESS WILLARD AND PARTY PASS THROUGH THE CITY.

Jess Willard, ex-champion heavyweight, who was dethroned at Toledo on July 4 by Jack Dempsey, suffering one of the most severe 'beatings ever given a champion, and party passed through Rensselaer late Wednesday evening on their way to their home in Lawrence, Kansas, where Jess is going to take 'his one hundred thousand berries and settle down to private life. The party remained here but a few minutes and the champion did not venture forth from the big Cadillac car. His face showed quite plainly the bruises manufactured by Dempsey’s maulers and one eye was badly discolored. Mrs. Willard accompanied her husband.