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Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...
Died. Jack L. Dempsey,* oldtime turf writer, chart maker for Daily Racing Form; at Dallas; of heart failure. The day he died he picked five out of six winners at Arlington Downs track (between Dallas & Fort Worth...
...confused with fisticuffer William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey...
...James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney's reputation for reading Shakespeare and hob nobbing with George Bernard Shaw, than in Retired Champion Tunney's undoubted knowledge of the fight game and the appropriateness of having a boxer write on Boxing. Whether or not they would have asked William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey to write the section if Dempsey had knocked out Tunney when last they met, the editors do not say. But from their choices of new authors in other fields, it seems safe to say that the policy throughout was: "The name-of-the-moment, come what...