Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
...Otto Van Derck was taken in by two notable persons. Dave Barry was the notorious long-count referee of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight in 1927. Lately he has been running a saloon on Chicago's West Madison Street three blocks from Clerk Van Derck's bank. At Amalgamated Dave Barry kept a joint account with Joseph Baiata, a onetime barber who is supposed to have taught Charles Ponzi all that swindler knew. Joe Baiata served five years in jail for helping himself to $200,000 in a Massachusetts bank, and be fore that he helped wreck a big Buffalo...
Scrappy Thomas J. ("Tommy") Gibbons, whom Jack Dempsey trounced in a heavyweight championship bout at Shelby, Mont, in 1923, managed to cling to the public payroll. Onetime City Clerk Gibbons of St. Paul ran as an independent for Ramsey County, Minn, sheriff...
Born. To Hannah Williams Dempsey, 23, and William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, 39, onetime world's heavyweight boxing champion: a daughter, Joan; in Manhattan. Weight...
...would certainly not kill the beast, certainly would break the puncher's hand. There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields a 3-lb. hammer, swings it down on the steer's skull, just above and between the eyes. The object is not to kill but to stun the animal...