Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first. Dempsey was coming. You could see a swirl far back in the crowd that drew nearer and nearer as Dempsey moved down the aisle with his handlers and a corps of policemen. He climbed through the ropes-unshaven, hard-muscled, surprisingly thin-and crossed to Tunney's corner. "How are you, boy?" he said. The iron voice announced the weights: "Jack Dempsey, who has defended his title for the last six years. . . ." Loud booing. You bent over to light a cigaret and when you looked up they were fighting...
...Thirty seconds later, as the new heavyweight champion of the world, he was making a brief martial* address into the microphone, while cameras snapped. It was several minutes before the photographers remembered that there had been another man in the ring. They looked over their shoulders at a wet corner, but Dempsey had gone...
Preliminary work is already well advanced on the new baseball cage which is to be located at the southeast corner of Soldiers Field, next to the Locker Building. The contract has been let to the E. W. Pitman Co., of Lawrence, Massachusetts...
...felt a certain responsibility to his host. They had talked together by arctic firesides and Captain MacMillan had told him of these big houses, and of sleds that ran around on wheels without any dogs, and of yellow stars made put of glass and stuck like icicles in every corner; the Captain's descriptions, indeed, had been enthusiastic, and Abie Bromfield, who drove the Captain's dog team, evinced a polite interest in the marvels that were told him. The other natives of the expedition. believed that the Captain was either mad or lying, but he, Abie Bromfield...
...baseball cage is to be located 40 feet west of Caretaker Dennis En-right's home, and stands on the four eastern tennis courts, just inside the corner gate of the Soldiers Field inclosure. The old cage, built more than 30 years ago, had long outlived its usefulness, and the new cage will be 160 feet square, large enough for even modified outfield practice. Outside the structure will be of gray stucco, to match the Stadium...