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...Mike McTigue. as Irish as the Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter, he snitched Max Schmeling from the German manager who had brought him to the U. S., publicized him as the "German Dempsey," and, by storming into the ring and yelling "Foul" when Jack Sharkey hit Schmeling a questionably low blow, is generally credited with winning the world's heavyweight championship for Schmeling in 1930. Five years ago, Jacobs got hold of hog-fat, washed-up Tony Galento, ballyhooed him into a national celebrity, into...
Refereeing a wrestling match in Atlanta, Jack Dempsey several times warned Wrestler Cowboy Lutrell against rough tactics, finally awarded the match to his opponent on a foul. Indignant Lutrell took a poke at Dempsey, and Prize Fighter Dempsey, long out of training, went into action, nailed him with a hard punch, drove him to the ropes...
...following 34 years Willie Hoppe walked 50,000 miles around billiard tables, played against Nicholas Longworth before President Taft, was the butt of quips by Humorist Samuel Clemens, saw Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other great sport figures pass their peak, fade out of competition...
Next week at the same time in the Kirkland House Common Room, the Reverend Bernard W. Dempsey, S.J., of St. Louis University, will talk on "The Church and the Workingman." On Monday, March 4, the Reverend Francis J. Greene, chapian of the Club, will discuss "The Church and the Student," in the Winthrop House Common Room. The Reverend Michael J. Ahern, S.J., of Weston College, will talk the following week on "The Church...
Under extremely inadequate cover, fighting has gone on in the Dies Committee for a long time; at many a hearing observers were more struck by threshings and heavings under the blankets than by the testimony. Opposed to Chairman Dies were California's Voorhis, New Mexico's Dempsey, Massachusetts Casey. Basically the fight was theoretical-to Martin Dies U. S. liberals were akin to Communists and Fascists in so far as they believed in Marxism and tried to create a "bureaucratic capitalism" that would be for the U. S. what Communism is in Russia, Fascism is in Italy...