Word: dempsey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Cleared Path for Dempsey...
...worth its price? Faced with this problem last month when he arrived in Manhattan to meet his Boxer Dorian von Marienhof, Fancier John P. Wagner of Milwaukee proceeded shrewdly. He incorporated Boxer von Marienhof for $4,000, began selling stock at $1 a share. First buyer was Boxer Jack Dempsey, who took ten shares...
...Baer clowned away his title to colorless James J. Braddock, thus bringing heavyweight boxing to its all-time low, Joe Louis had been a professional less than one year. Since then the Detroit Negro has brought back to the sport a brand of excitement unknown since the days of Dempsey. Whereas practically nobody has indicated any desire to watch Champion Braddock flex his biceps, record-breaking crowds have squeezed in to watch Louis in encounters which were not much more competitive than Braddock's straight exhibition matches...
...careless pickups had accounted for 17 spills, numerous cuts, twisted ankles, bruised legs. Not a spoke through the arm but an ordinary stomachache forced Debaets out next day. Pleading the same ailment, popular Italian Franco Georgetti, reputedly the highest-paid performer in the game, withdrew. The triple smash of Dempsey, Kilian and Rodman was a nerve-tingler, but the fifth night brought a prize misadventure. Gottfried Hurtgen, who had replaced Debaets as Alfred Letourner's partner, tangled with Bobby Echevaria, jacknifed to the boards amid the wreckage of his bicycle, stumbled off with a broken collarbone...
...lackpenny preparation for winning the heavyweight championship. "But when it came to milk . . . well, we gave up a lot of things but never milk. I don't think I ever could have gotten in shape without it." Other witnesses to milk's athletic potency: Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Grantland Rice...