Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ignace Jan Paderewski: " Since last November my earnings have been $460,000-or about $7,800 a concert. I smile at Ruth and Dempsey, who are reputed to average $80,000 and $150,000 a year, respectively. I bow to Fairbanks and Chaplin, whose reported earnings...
...consolation to say that the first can beat the second and the second the third. Ma can lick Billie and Pa can lick Ma, but that does not mean that Pa can lick Dempsey. For the past three years the crew squad has been composed of some of the best material in the east, and yet there have been no victories worth the name. Objection has, however, been quashed by the well meaning sentiment "Give them a chance." But opportunities have come and gone, and if affairs continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication...
Eagan (who while an undergraduate at Yale three years ago was petitioned by Dempsey to be his sparring partner) was pitted against one Hulks in the final. " Eagan, full of vigor, dropped his opponent to the floor with a forceful body blow. Hulks' head struck the boards rather heavily and the referee stopped the contest...
...witnessed his first work-out are at variance as to his condition and ability. Say some: "He has reduced to 241 pounds." Say others: "But he cannot reduce his 38 years by training !" In any event, Willard is no longer the stout, benignly middle-aged gentleman whom Jack Dempsey obliterated in three rounds at Toledo...
...following blanket challenge: " I'll agree to fight Willard, Floyd Johnson, Firpo and Jack McAuliffe II, in the same ring on May 12 at the Yankee Stadium, and I don't ask for a penny. But if I stop all of them I want a match with Dempsey." It is not likely that Mr. Wills' boredom with hogsheads will have much effect on the attitude of his contemporaries. Besides being a substantial citizen between fights he is even more substantial in the ring. It is the generally accepted opinion that he is the only...