Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Barney Dempsey, 40, brother of Prizefighter William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey and his manager in the lean years before he won the world's heavyweight championship; of bronchial asthma; in Hollywood...
...Jack Dempsey: his first fight in four years, an exhibition bout against one Jack Beasley; at Reno, by a knockout in the second round. Onetime (1919-26) Heavyweight Champion Dempsey weighed 199 lb., announced a tour of exhibition bouts at the conclusion of which, next March, he might decide to try another "big" fight...
...instructor, policeman, haberdasher, poolroom proprietor, truant officer, referee, ironworker, gambler, newspaper vendor, sporting goods salesman), Benny Leonard announced his return to the ring. His onetime manager, Billy Gibson, was in a private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission promptly refused to sanction; a subsequent campaign for the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight championships. Promoter Jimmy Johnston remembered he had a seven-year-old contract...
...sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent for Sharkey. Kearns wanted to bet any part of $100,000 that Walker would win; but the odds, when the fighters went into the ring, were 3 to i, with Sharkey the favorite. Sharkey weighed 198 lb., Walker, a little heavier than had been...
...real ones: the late Nick Forzelli, son of a Syrian hop-seller, who once bet $327,000 on a horse to win, was reputed to have won and lost $1,000,000 three times in his career; Nick ("The Greek") Dandolas, craps, lowball and faro player, friend of Jack Dempsey...