Word: firpo
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...Husing's broadcasts of Army football games. For hours when there are no sports to broadcast, Liberty has already started a musical giveaway show and a series called Great Days in Sport, in which McLendon will re-create such highlights of the past as the Demp-sey-Firpo fight and the spectacular games of Notre Dame's Four Horsemen...
...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...
...John Steuart Curry's powder-puff oil, Hitting the Line, showed, football is a mighty hard sport to picture convincingly. Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes. Nineteenth Century standouts were engravings of the great Australian heavyweight, Peter Jackson, and of a bearded speedster named William Howitt...
...along a city street, the scarred masonry of the J. P. Morgan & Co. building after the Wall Street explosion of an anarchist bomb. But The Golden Twenties mostly concentrates on the high, wide & handsome aspects of the Jazz Age-Red Grange swivel-hipping toward the goal line, Dempsey and Firpo in the ring, Babe Ruth putting the ball and ball game away with a long clout to right field. The nation, turning from dance marathons and speakeasies, held its breath while Lind bergh flew the Atlantic, Gertrude Ederle swam the Channel, and miners tunneled in vain to save Floyd Collins...