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...them hotter than July 4, 1923. That day, the sun poured down without mercy on the little cow town of Shelby, where, in a damp prizefight ring, glistened and heaved the ruddy shoulders of Tommy Gibbons, a husky boy who wanted to be champion of the world. Jack Dempsey, the champion, was punching and slashing at Tommy Gibbons. Sweat glistened on the faces of the shirt-sleeved crowd. One man fainted. It was the heat. Another man suddenly had a bleeding nose. Tommy Gibbons felt weak and sick after a while. He lost the fight and made no money. Dempsey...
There seemed to come a sigh As Dempsey whispered...
...Also in Florida last week: Herbert Hoover, Jack Dempsey, Colonel Lindbergh, Scarface Al Capone...
Maximilian Siegfried Victor Schmeling of Germany so pummeled, kneaded and battered Johnny Risko, the Cleveland baker-boy, that the referee stopped their heavyweight fight, last week, in the ninth round. No one before him had knocked out Risko. Fighter Schmeling, who facially resembles onetime Fighter Dempsey (TIME, Jan. 21), looked more like him than ever. His performance revived the theory that another Real Fighter will yet be found and perfected for the perfection-loving U. S. public. Fighter Schmeling's best-punching hand is his right...
However, for promoters to be successful, they must have something to promote and unless Promoter-Pugilist Dempsey should arrange a match between himself and the winner of the Sharkey-Stribling bout, there seemed to be no further work for Rickard's successor to do until a prospective heavyweight champion appeared. Of these, only one had shown the vaguest possibility of becoming satisfactory. This was Maximilian Siegfried Victor ("Mocks") Schmeling who was once the champion of Germany, who has fought twice in the U. S., who is 23 years old, who looks like Jack Dempsey and is being taught to fight...