Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three o'clock in the afternoon, of Friday, April 19, began the greatest endurance test since Dempsey beat Carpentiers. Two strong and husky entrants from that respected school across the Common, were to sit in opposite windows of a music store on Holyoke St., and play victoria records continuously until one or the other should fall asleep or faint of fatigue. To the winner the proprietor of the shop promised to award a handsome prize of twenty-five dollars, and to the loser a generous prize of ten dollars...
...gift of Alumnus Briggs Cunningham. He bought and presented to the school the ring in which Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney defeated onetime world champion William Harrison Dempsey in Philadelphia (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926). It will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more paperweight than featherweight, will box, mimicking in miniature the giant punches of the champions who once battled there. Here too will box lusty footballers who later may lead teams at Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton...
Then came the announcement that Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, had signed a two-year contract to promote boxing bouts with Humbert J. Fugazy. Fugazy long had been the most formidable of Rickard's rivals. He has never reached the heights, but he has threatened. In signing Dempsey he gained as an asset the most magnetic personality in the fight game today. Dempsey proved as much when he rushed into the breach upon Rickard's death and by sheer ballyhoo turned the Sharkey-Stribling bout in Florida from a certain failure into a financial success. The Dempsey-Fugazy...
...Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight (1899) by exchanging a basket of stage money lor a basket of tickets. He saw the Jimmy Gardiner-Tommy Devine fight in a Milwaukee Armory (1903) from a steel girder to which he strapped himself early in the morning before the fight. He crashed the Dempsey-Gibbons fight in Shelby, Montana (1923), by riding into the hot arena in a covered ice wagon...
Looking around some more you could see William Harrison Dempsey, the evening's promoter; Estelle Taylor, cinemactress when she isn't being Mrs. Dempsey; A J Drexel Biddle Jr., Harvey S. Firestone, John Ringling, Baron & Baroness de Bonsetten, Irving Berlin, Senator Robert M. ("Young Bob") La Follette, Publisher Paul Block. Charles B. Dillingham. Mrs. William Randolph Hearst...