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Long Count. In St. Paul, Mrs. Jeanette Darling, suing for divorce, testified that her husband had not been home since he went off to Shelby, Mont, to see the Dempsey-Gibbons fight...
...shortage of good young fighters was certainly acute. In gyms and fight clubs the U.S. over, the hard-eyed operators who make boxing their business scratched heads and tried to figure out the reason. After World War I there had been no dearth of fighters: there were Dempsey, Paul Berlenbach, Jack Delaney, Young Stribling and a raft of others...
Georges ("Gorgeous Georges") Carpentier, a promising French heavyweight until he tried to mix it with Jack Dempsey in 1921, came back for a visit to the U.S. with some thoughts on middle age (he is 54): "I don't feel old. I know I'm getting old, but I don't feel it. I don't want to see it even. I don't look in the mirror any more." He had found that "life is very interesting if you make mistakes. That gives you an ambition in life to correct mistakes, to make money...
Handsome Living. In the golden '20s, the years of the big names-the years of Dempsey, Tilden and Bobby Jones-Babe Ruth was the biggest draw of them all. With his big bat, he put baseball back on its feet and back in the hearts of the fans after the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal...
...Richard Bartholomew, 25, who identified Mr. Hush (Jack Dempsey), got "an awful lot of letters, from people wanting me to do favors for them. A couple of women actually proposed . . . Lots of girls wrote in for a pair of nylons." But Bartholomew gave his nylons to his mother and his girl friend, distributed most of his prizes to his family. Then he went back to the University of Michigan, where he is working for a Ph.D. in chemical engineering. Last summer he got married, took a free honeymoon trip to Banff. "It was very beautiful, even more so than...