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...time. I admit I didn't know what hit me or how I fell. . . . Let me tell you that Sam Langford hit harder by accident than most heavyweights hit on purpose. There never lived a hitter like Langford." (Wills' interlocutor asked if Langford could have whipped Champion Dempsey.) "Ho, Ho! Dempsey wouldn't have lasted any time. Made to order for Sam-poor Sam. Ah, gee, what a great fighter Now about . . . Firpo. I'll surely beat him. . . . Just let that bird come and I'll knock him back fast enough. Hitting? Say, I know...
...giant, scowling thunderously, went rushing by with great strides, followed by three other giants-two of them coal black, shining with perspiration, grinning broadly. It was Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine Bull Man, continuing his training for a fight on Sept. 11 with Harry Wills, black heavyweight, to determine Champion Dempsey's next antagonist...
...came to the United States for two reasons. First, to prove to my own people that my defeat at the hands of Jack Dempsey had not made a coward of me. That's what they seemed to think-yes, even said. It broke my heart. I am not a coward. . . . The second reason ... is to take Harry Wills to task-in the ring-for a published statement made by him after seeing me defeat Jess Willard [1923], in which he said . . . that he could have whipped both Willard and myself in the same ring. I resent that...
Flyweight 108-112 Pancho Villa Bantamweight 116-118 Abe Goldstein Featherweight 122-126 Lightweight 133-135 Benny Leonard Welterweight 142-147 Mickey Walker Middleweight 158-160 Harry Greb Lightheavyweight 175 Mike McTigue (Cruiser) Heavyweight unlimited Jack Dempsey...
Married. Hyrum Dempsey, 67, father of William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey, champion pugilist, to one Lottie Dexter Blassingame, 26; in Farmington, Utah...