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After "working real hard at it," Jack Dempsey passed his real estate brokers' exam in California with a grade of 85, took his diploma, then hung out a gilt-lettered shingle in Beverly Hills and waited for the customers...
...Other ex-heavyweight champs who tried, and failed, to regain their titles: Gentleman Jim Corbett, 33, against Jim Jeffries in 1900; Bob Fitzsimmons, 40, against Jeffries in 1902; Jeffries, 35, against Jack Johnson in 1910; Jack Dempsey, 32, against Gene Tunney...
...Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jeffries, Max Schmeling were all knocked out. Jack Dempsey was outpointed...
...Artist Bellows (1882-1925) painted the Dempsey-Firpo fight the year after Dempsey won it (in the second round). Stag at Sharkey's was one of the three early fight pictures which made Bellows famous...
...refer to George Bellows' classic picture of "Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes" [TIME. May 22]. Bellows died in 1925, and I doubt he painted the episode referred to. His classic fight picture, unless my memory deceives me, was titled Stag at Sharkey's. Sharkey's was one of the early, small fight clubs in New York, about...