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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...
...There is no question about the punch on the left leg with a right ?a punch on Sharkey's left leg by Dempsey's right. It was a sweeping blow which glanced off the leg and it was followed by Dempsey's left to the solar plexus, which was the decisive blow as I saw it. When Sharkey got the solar plexus punch he grunted. Before the solar plexus blow was delivered and after the right landed on Sharkey's left leg, I was stepping in toward the men, saying: 'Watch your punches, Jack.' Then, realizing there were...
...Referee O'Sullivan counted ten seconds, declared Dempsey the winner. Under the regulations this decision was final. Though he complained loudly after coming to, Sharkey entered no formal appeal from the decision. He bore no tell-tale bruise; did not seek medical examination. Tex Rickard, promoter of the fight, proceeded at once to arrange the second meeting of Winner Dempsey and Champion Tunney, in Chicago in September...
Cinema films, "shot" from a platform near the ring, were expected to settle the positive contentions of three schools of thought which sprang up from the split-second observations of many men and their emotional memories. But when the films were shown, Dempsey's back was found squarely blocking from view the disputed action of his right fist in the seventh round. The schools of contention all thrived and the films were virtually tripled in value. Every cinema spectator could still be his own referee on the thrust which men held, variously, had 1) landed fair, above Sharkey's high...
Grantland Rice, usually calm, said: "Dempsey struck Sharkey two foul blows. ... As Sharkey apparently doubled up in pain, Dempsey followed with a left hook to the jaw and Sharkey . . . fell, squarely on his face, writhing as if in deepest agony...