Jack Dempsey was charged yesterday with having used loaded gloves in 1919 when he won the heavyweight boxing title from Jess Willard. The accusation was made in the memoirs of the late Jack (Doc) Kearns, in a copyrighted feature in Sports Illustrated magazine. Dempsey denied the charge in the same article.

Kearns, who was Dempsey's manager, said he used plaster of paris and water in bandaging Dempsey's hands to insure a 10‐1 bet of $10,000 that Dempsey would win in one round. Dempsey won in three rounds.

Kearns said the fighter was “entirely innocent of what happened.”

“Afterward, when I cracked off the bandages and ditched them,” Kearns said, “he was so dumb at being the heavyweight champion of the world that you could have hit him with a hammer and he wouldn't have blinked an eye.”

Dempsey Is Quoted

The article quoted Dempsey as having commented, “RidicuIous! I could take an oath. In fact I will.”