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...Jersey City, on July 2, 1921, U. S. sport fans witnessed a milestone in prizefight annals: the first million-dollar gate. Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey...
Among the spectators who watched last week's burlesque with something more than amusement was Jack Dempsey. Only the night before, the onetime world's champion, who had earned some $5,000,000 in the ring, had started a pugilistic "comeback" at 45. In Atlanta, during two rounds of roughhouse scrapping that left him wobbly-kneed, he had knocked out of the ring one Cowboy Luttrell, a fat, 34-year-old wrestler who had taken a poke at him during a wrestling match which he refereed last spring...
Though sport fans mourned his doing so, the onetime Tiger Man went ahead with his "comeback" plans. Though far from broke (he had no direct interest in the Jack Dempsey Restaurant which recently folded in Manhattan), enough of his funds are tied up in the Jack Dempsey Broadway Bar, the Dempsey Distilling Co. and other projects so that he can use $3,000 to $5,000 cash, to be picked up-along with publicity— from a small-time fight now & then. His next opponent: Bull Curry, a Hartford (Conn.) policeman who "has done a little wrestling...
...wealthy thread manufacturer and known to his many admirers as "The Millionaire Kid," was not averse, but his parents dissuaded him from turning professional. Last year, with another and more popular Negro champion on the throne, Senator Barbour thought it time to introduce his bill, got his friend Jack Dempsey to tell a Congressional committee that the movie ban was an archaic handicap to the manly sport. Republican Barbour is now training for a fast go with Democrat James Cromwell (an amateur boxer who once went a few exhibition rounds with Tommy Loughran) for his Senate seat...
Separated. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, 44; and his third wife, Singer Hannah Williams Dempsey: after seven years of marriage; in Manhattan. Mrs. Dempsey plans to sing in a Boston nightclub. Said Dempsey: "I wish her all the luck in the world...