Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Noteworthy was the arrival at the Stadium of Harry Wills, logical candidate for a chance at Dempsey. Wills was cheered " every step of the way from the entrance in centre field to his seat near the ring...
...Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg...
Nevertheless Promotor Rickard said: " Firpo, in my mind, is the outstanding challenger for Dempsey's title right now. He impresses me as another Jim Jeffries?a better man than Jeffries was at a corresponding period in his ring career, for Firpo is stronger than Jeff and hits harder...
Jimmy de Forrest, Firpo's trainer, holds no such illusion. Said be: "Dempsey is entirely too fast for Firpo. I judge that he (Firpo) needs about four months' intensive training before he should even contemplate meeting Jack. Otherwise he will be entering a slaughter house!" (De Forrest trained Dempsey for the Willard fight in Toledo, July 4, 1919. Sporting writers invariably speak respectfully of Jimmy de Forrest...
Promoter Rickard also said: " I'm ready to match either Dempsey or Wills with Firpo now. It doesn't matter to me which one it is. I want to stage the next fight about Labor Day. I'd like to match Wills with Firpo if Wills will fight him. I tried to arrange that match before, though, and Wills wouldn't fight...