Word: fight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dropped dead from excitement. Charles F. Brown died in Watertown, N. Y. James K. Chilson and George K. Johnson died in California. "NINE and Tunney is UP*; . . . backing away . . . now outboxing Dempsey . . .Jack trying to get Tunney where he can hit him . . . following . . . motions Gene to come in and fight . . . Dempsey comes in like a wild man. . . . Dempsey is DOWN from a hard left to the jaw. He is UP ... Dempsey's eyes are getting worse. . . . TUNNEY LOOKS MAD . . . drives hard on Dempsey's eye, and it is a very, very bad eye. Dempsey is very, very tired . . . Dempsey...
...Jack, JACK. ... we wanted Jack to say hello, too . . . boxed a real good fight . . . Tunney managed to master...
...national prominence. Inevitably, he has had much criticism. Sports experts grumble that he does not know the sport he is describing. Radio executives answer that neither do most of the listeners; that colorful, general reports are more satisfying to the masses than accurate technical descriptions. Sports experts, particularly fight listeners, agree that with seeing many fights and football games his knowledge is increasing...
...first fight was the Greb-Wilson bout for the middle-weight championship (1524). His prominence extended with World's Series baseball. His first great national, non-sporting events were the Demo-cratic and Republican Conventions of 1924; his most famed, the Lindbergh receptions this summer. At the Radio World Fair in 1925, he won a solid gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano...
...Announcer Graham McNamee could scarcely be expected to grasp immediately the technical detail here involved, through which Dempsey protested to the Illinois Boxing Commission that he had won the fight. Dempsey knocked Tunney down. By the rules of the contest he should have walked immediately to a neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked...