Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue between Mara and Tunney was simple enough. Mara claimed 10% of Tunney's pay for fighting Dempsey in 1926, and 25% of all his earnings thereafter. He had proof that Tunney offered him the 25%, but was vague about what it was for. Tunney claimed that he hired Mara to arrange the fight in New York and that Mara failed. But the private altercation was of small interest compared to the figures, publicly detailed for the first time, of how much money an important heavyweight makes. Tunney, who had been a shipping clerk at $18 a week...
Motion picture rights Tunney-Dempsey bout...
...Tunney-Dempsey bout at Chicago...
...trouble was that certain Manhattan politicians owned shares in Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight contender. The New York State Boxing Commission had decreed that Dempsey must fight Wills before fighting anyone else. Meanwhile the late Tex Rickard was trying to arrange for Tunney to fight Dempsey. He was telling Tunney that the champion was sick, weak, "full of boils," telling Dempsey that Tunney would be an easier match than Wills; telling both to keep quiet about what he told them. At last the Tunney-Dempsey fight was arranged in Philadelphia and Tunney won the title. Then came further services from Agent...
...memorandum: "He [Northcliffe] had long consultations with Mr. Glover . . . and was profoundly impressed by Glover's horror of advertisements that destroy the news columns and, I may add, by his remarkable chest measurement and reach. . . . He strips in the ring at 18 stone and has a reach longer than Dempsey...