DEMPSEY JUST ESCAPED COLLEGE PROFESSORSHIP

Jack Dempsey is the boxing champion of the world and a movie star, but few people know that he almost became a college professor as well.

One morning not long ago a college professor called on Dempsey at his hotel. He was Dr. Albert P. Sy, professor of anatomy at the University of Buffalo, and he asked the champion to come to the college and deliver a series of lectures on physical culture and muscular development.

But Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue.