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Perhaps casting a sidelong doubt toward next year's schedule, Sproul went on to suggest that "you ought to find opponents in your own class. I wouldn't take on Jack Dempsey; it wouldn't be fun for anybody. Get games with institutions ethically and athletically on your own level. Play the game on your own standards, not the sportswriter...
Manners at the Post. In 1919, when the "golden era" in sport was beginning, it was Man o' War who led the parade. Like Ty Cobb and Jack Dempsey, with whom he competed for headlines, Big Red had color. His post manners, in the days before starting gates, were atrocious. He liked to rear up on his hind legs and terrify the jockey with his lunging and plunging. But when Red settled down to his tremendous stride (once measured at 24 ft.), he broke track records, and the hearts of ordinary horses foolish enough to race against...
...Color. Leo Durocher, the holler guy, has added very little to baseball's respectability. But at a time when sport was empty of color-and the splashes of color made by Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Walter Hagen had faded-he was as refreshing to the bleachers as a bottle of beer on an August afternoon...
Paris fight fans, who gather at a tawdry nightclub called the Club des Cinq, heard the news at 5 a.m. Georges Carpentier, a not so galvanizing Gaul who once suffered deeply at the hands of Jack Dempsey, slapped the nightclub manager so vigorously on the back that the manager passed out and had to be revived with his own champagne...
...Mexico. Democratic Senator Dennis Chavez made enemies when he beat Governor John Dempsey's machine in the primary. Now state jobholders have been given the word to "vote as you please," and many consider that a green light to vote for hurly-burly Major General Patrick Jay Hurley. He has a good chance in a closening race...