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...Daugherty,' pronouncing it Doherty... "I will let you look at me walking on the boardwalk, but I don't expect I will have anything to say about anything at all. . . . "I would like to see somebody else's name in the papers now and then-Jack Dempsey's or John Ringling's. . . . "I would go to a motion picture show if I could be sure I would not see pictures of an ex-Cabinet officer. . . . "If a man is too solemn, they'll think the whole weight of the world is on his shoulders...
...Rickard, promoter, conferred an hour with Harry Wills, Negro heavyweight, after which he said: "Wills agrees to fight for me any place in the United States on dates to be selected by myself, against heavyweights I will select, leading up to a meeting with Dempsey if Wills qualifies...
...June 28 or July 5. If Firpo holds to his announced intention of retiring, Rickard is likely to select either Romero-Rojas the Chilean, or Spalla the Italian, or both, to take the Negro's blows. Unless the Negro is knocked out, Rickard will let him have at Dempsey in September...
With this disillusioned preface, he sets out on the recital of the great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey. There were, in the days when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
...roster of great names and memorable fights is Bendigo, Sayers and Heenan (coadjustors in the "most memorable fight"), James Mace, John L. Sullivan, Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jeffries, William Richmond; Peter Jackson, Thomas Molineaux, Jack Johnson-the great Negroes; Carpentier, Beckett, Dempsey...