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HARVARD '39 ANDOVER Daughters, l.e. r.e., Walker Covel, l.t. r.t., Dempsey Staruski, l.g. r.g., Kiphuth Wilson, c. c., Graham Hedblom, r.g. l.g., Craft Houghton, r.t. l.t., Taylor Green, r.e. l.e., Huffard Lupien, q.b. q.b., Battles Harding, l.h.b. r.h.b., Chase Brooks, r.h.b. l.h.b., Starretts Boston, f.b. f.b., McLaughry...
...daring than Brooklyn's famed matador, Sidney Frumkin (Sidney Franklin), Cowboy Schneider has tried riding steers but never wrestled one. Leading contestants after the event was a week old were Bulldogger Dick Shelton -once invited by the late Tex Rickard to become a prizefighter with coaching by Jack Dempsey-who threw a steer in 10 seconds; Trick Rider Tad Lucas, who designs her own costumes, makes $12,000 a year, uses Black Narcissus perfume...
...Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats was $250 for two. Day after the fight, Columnist Westbrook Pegler wrote a lead: "You are now listening...
Aftermath was the biggest party since 1929, the most elaborate display of individual and public drunkenness since 1920. In Jack Dempsey's saloon, grizzled old J. F. ("Jafsie"') Condon told his life history to a stranger from Wisconsin. At a nearby table, Bruno Richard Hauptmann's lawyer, Lloyd Fisher, glared into a beer glass. At 5 o'clock in the morning, a bartender named Mike Hurley and 13 friends sat down in an East Side coffeepot to a breakfast of beer and a 50-lb. tuna fish, cut in steaks, which they ate down...
...others: Dempsey v. Tunney in 1926 Dempsey v. Sharkey, Dempsey. v. Firpo, Dempsey v. Carpentier...