Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...principals, one was a 194˝-pound man, aged 32, of Irish descent?Jack Dempsey. Thick-lipped, splay-nosed, laconic, he was to demonstrate whether or not he could again transform himself into a smashing feline whirlwind in the boxing ring as he could from 1919 to 1926 when he was world's champion heavyweight...
...other was a 196-pounder of Lithuanian descent, Jack Sharkey,* aged 25. Heavily good-looking, bright-eyed, garrulous, he was to prove himself formidable enough to deserve a chance at overpowering the man that whipped Dempsey last autumn, World's Champion Gene Tunney...
Each of these big men boasted he would batter the other unconscious and each?though Sharkey had been coached to check his "killer" instinct and weary Dempsey by skillful boxing?reverted quickly and satisfactorily to the brute soon after the first gong sounded...
Sharkey, the talkative, was known to be tender of stomach. Dempsey, crouched and persistent, concentrated his hammering on Sharkey's ribs and navel. Sharkey's jabs and swings rained on Dempsey's grimly contorted face, opening wet cuts under both eyes, abrading the truculent...
Some thought Sharkey hit oftenest. Others said Dempsey hit hardest and forced the fight. Sharkey seemed the livelier, Dempsey the stronger, when, in the seventh round, something happened about which cigar stores and drawing-rooms, blind pigs and boudoirs, will never need to stop wrangling...