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Finance. Prize fighting became important business in 1921, when Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier fought each other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...business in pugilism means close co-operation between a heavyweight champion and his handlers on the one hand and a shrewd fight promoter on the other, like the partnership between Promoter Rickard and Champion Dempsey. Last week's fight was the first held for the heavyweight championship under other than Garden auspices since Dempsey won the title. To engage in it, because it promised greater profits. Champion Braddock and his manager had broken a Garden contract to fight German Max Schmeling...
...Robinson of Philadelphia, U. S. amateur heavyweight champion, scored the evening's sensation. Given the edge over Nino Paoletti, Italian champion, after the first round, Robinson promptly staggered from a right to the jaw, slumped to the floor. Rising on Referee Jack Dempsey's count of nine, he wobbled through the rest of the second round, toppled Paoletti in the third, won the decision...
Among the sketching upstarts is Sam Faier, youthful graduate of Philadelphia's School of Industrial Art, who in winter teaches art at Germantown High School, does odd jobs for newspapers. His biggest tip ($2) came from his biggest customer, Primo Camera. Jack Dempsey, Jackie Coogan, Max Baer each gave him $1, Al Jolson 50?. Once he sketched Sketcher James Montgomery Flagg who thereupon jumped off the boardwalk, sketched Sketcher Faier. But when Flagg finished for Faier a picture of a mother & moppet, the mother declared it a bad likeness, angrily tossed Flagg...
...Jack Dempsey-you know Jack Dempsey, of course-taught me how to duck. And who should know better how to teach anybody to duck than Jack Dempsey? After that, I don't know what happened. ... I suddenly looked around and there was Bill Wright, the sweetest man that God ever made, lying on the sidewalk, all bloodied. . . . They took us over to the police station. And then I want to tell you that the sweetest thing that ever has happened in my life happened right then. I looked up and there was Sherman Billingsley and Mac from...