Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ring. In the center of the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Champion Dempsey forcibly induced " Bull" Firpo to lie immobile and unconscious for ten consecutive seconds. When the ten seconds were up, Dempsey walked over to Firpo, picked him up, told him he was a brave fellow...
...those who run newspapers for profit, the moral was obvious. Speaking of its preparations for the Dempsey-Firpo fight on Sept. 14, the Tribune said...
After the Dempsey-Gibbons fight on July 4, the Tribune sold 100,000 copies more than usual...
...Hundreds of shops displayed in their windows pictures of Firpo and of Dempsey...
According to vows taken by Jack Dempsey at his Saratoga camp, Harry Wills has eliminated himself as a championship possibility. Wills, through his manager, Paddy Mullins, attempted to stop the Firpo-Dempsey fight with injunction proceedings on the grounds that he had a prior right to meet the champion. Dempsey had asserted his intention of meeting Wills shortly. Now he will never meet him. Not until some promoter waves $400,000 or more in his vicinity...