Jess Willard had at some not long after the conquest, a No man ancestor who was such a quarrelsome person that he acquired a nickname among his associates which was taken up ty the English and given to his family for all time. Willard is the Norman-
French Gueulard, not a fai name, but a nick-name meaning "the /Brawier." The original Willard was presumably called Gucdlard by associates in their everyday int Jcourse until the English about them, who could neither understand French nor pronounce it, thought it a family name and continued to call him and his off-spring Willard until they' too forgot the nicening and came to use it as a patronymic, As a name for a prize-fighter it certainly seems somewhat more appropriate than "Peace of God'
Jack Dempsey's name is quite a sober and respectable one, Perhaps it isn't his name. The writer is not 'a fight "fan" and does not know the present champion's, history, but the fact that there was a middle-wrote a Christmas story. called "The Chimes," an impossible, pre-pesterous piece of sentiment which weight Jack Dempvey fighting in hi pily the English-speaking world the early nineties leads one who is wholly uninformed to suspect that this is a nomme de guerre assumed by the present Jack when he felt that he needed the support of a great name. At all events Dempsey is another form of Dempster. Many of Man are familiar with the term deemster. In primitive Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian days offenders against the law were judged by councils, by the Thing or the Witangemot. The sifigle judge was will not willingly let die. But don't be dissuaded from taking "The Chimes," as a theme merely because of your having been anticipated by.
famous author. Famous. authors often borrow themes. Many of them live on. borrowed themes. There can therefore be no harm in a mere novice,, without the rag of fan edition to cover. his ambitious back, borrowing this idea, Having got it, you proceed to work, How?
As the gods decree, Be_ calm Keep the idea well in mind. Forget, you can, ovr poor, cracked, musical Shanghai chimes, and Anglo-Danish communities dempo sters, demers and so forth, all meaning judge. In later days' the same term was applied in Scotland and the Isle of Man to members of Parliament. All of the Dempseys can therefore thank some ancestor Tenrned in the Inws for their heredity ary name, Peter Jackson and Jack Johnson, the two black fighters whose names have not faded from the roll of fame, of course trace their origin no further back than the Civil War between the North and the South, Before the war the slaves were simply Mose, Jerry, Rastus, Eph'rum and the like, but'with their freedom they hastened to adopt the family names of the most distingnuished soldiers and statesmen of whom they had ever heard.
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