Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helen Wills went East for the first time in 1921, a shy sturdy-legged girl with pigtails, won the National Girls' Championship at Forest Hills. Coolidge had just become President, Jack Dempsey was Heavyweight Champion and Babe Ruth was playing his fourth season with the New York Yankees the year she won the U. S. Women's Championship for the first time, in 1923, against nutbrown, iron-muscled Molla Biurstedt Mallory. By 1927, after Suzanne Lenglen had turned professional, Helen Wills, at 21, was admittedly the ablest amateur woman tennis player in the world. In 1929, she was presented...
Born. To Roger Wolfe Kahn, 27, aviator, orchestra leader, son of the late great Otto Hermann Kahn; and Edith May Nelson Kahn, 24, daughter of onetime Representative John Edward Nelson of Maine, whom he married two years ago after being divorced by the present Mrs. Jack Dempsey; a daughter, their first child; in Manhattan...
...clubhouse were John D. Hertz, Jack Dempsey, Postmaster General Farley, Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane and J. H. Louchheim of Philadelphia, who bet $1,000 on his Morpluck and then contrived to lose his pari-mutuel tickets to a pickpocket who got no good out of them. A squad of National Guardsmen used clubs to keep the spectators in the infield under control. The spectators threw chairs at the guardsmen...
Died. "Fireman Jim Flynn" (Andrew Chiariglone), 55, heavyweight, only boxer ever to knock out Jack Dempsey; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Twice defeated by Negro Jack Johnson, Flynn became a trial horse for heavyweights of the ''White Hope" period, was on the down grade when he managed to floor Dempsey in one round in 1917. Next year Dempsey, on his way to championship, knocked out Flynn in one round...
...Jack Dempsey sent Manhattan newspapers five studio poses of his daughter Joan Hannah Dempsey, aged 7 mo. 24 days...