Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...optical office on the second floor above the drug store that is the social centre of Niles, Mich., Harry Wills, onetime stevedore, leaned his black bulk against a door-jam and watched Champion William Harrison Dempsey sign a contract to meet him in a ten-round, no-decision contest in Michigan City, Ind., in Sept., 1926. Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons posted 1200,000 as a forfeit, Dempsey $100,000, Wills $50,000. Every man in the land who reads a,sport sheet had an opinion to offer bn this historic scene, the culmination of four years of bickering. Some likened...
...Forest Hills. For the second time within a fortnight, a large crowd rose to boo, hiss and deride a national champion. Thus Pugilist William Harrison Dempsey was treated in Los Angeles (TIME, Aug. 17). Thus, last week, a gallery received Miss Helen Wills when she stepped on the courts of the West Side Tennis Club to play with Miss Mary K. Browne against Miss McKane and Miss Colyer of England in a doubles match that would decide the international women's series for the Wightman Cup. The match score stood at 3-all. Mrs. Mallory, after half an hour...
...fellow; muscles, or some fatty tissue, bulged beneath the neat black coat which, despite the obvious fact that it had been made for its wearer, had a curious air of having been stolen. Whose was that ovine yet sturdy countenance ? Whose that beady eye? Whose but William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey's, Heavyweight Champion of the World. The referee introduced him to the crowd; the Nation's hero rose to receive his accustomed mead of adulation...
...came thundering from the roomy chests of the spectators seated on the topmost rim of the amphitheatre, under the cold Pleiades-"Booh . . . BOOOH-H. . . ." Mixed in the hoarse menace of that roar were catcalls in trembling falsetto-''Oh, Gerald " -mewings, imprecations, cries of "Bring on Wills . . ." Champion Dempsey turned the color of an embarrased orchid, crept to his seat, remained there until agile Salvadore had defeated Jessick (onetime amateur Pacific Coast lightweight champion), "Newsboy" Brown had won a decision over Frankie Grandetta...
...night before, George Godfrey, titanic Negro, had smacked one Tiny Herman to the canvas four times in three rounds-and then once more. After the fifth smack, Tiny Herman did not rise again until the referee's arm had marked off ten strophes. Had Negro Harry Wills, Dempsey's Nemesis, appeared before the Vernon crowd in tuxedo or barrelhouse cutaway, it is quite possible that the gathering would have favored him with the same vocal bludgeonings that the Los Angeles group bestowed upon the Champion, for Wills is reputed to be dodging Godfrey even as he himself...