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...more because I didn't want any fuss. They left off dancing." ¶ Among the Mayor's shipmates were Negress singer Florence Mills, conductor Walter Damrosch, cartoonist Rube Goldberg, conductor Sergi Koussevitzky. The Mayor was auctioneer for the ship's pool, won a bet on fighter Tunney, etc. ¶ In Manhattan, Mayor Walker's subordinates waited for a glimpse of the unprecedented "service" he last fortnight promised to give his city when he should return...
...Here comes Jack Dempsey, climbing through the ropes . . . white flannels, long bathrobe . . . friend in a long green coat. . . . Here comes Tunney . . . [blast of cheering from the crowd]. . . . He's got on blue trunks with red trimmings. . . . They're getting the gloves out of a box tied with pretty blue ribbon. . . . The announcer shouting in the ring . . . trying to quiet 150,000 people. . . . Robes...
...Gene is stabbing Jack off ... oho . . . Jack wandering around Gene . . . Dempsey drives a hard left under the heart. . . . Jack pounded the back of Tunney's head with four rights. . . . Gene put a terrific right . . . hardest blow of the fight . . . Gene beginning to wake up ... like a couple of wild animals . . . Gene's body red . . . hits Dempsey a terrific right to the body . . . Jack is groggy. . . . Jack leads hard left. . . . Tunney seems almost wobbling . . . they have been giving Dempsey smelling salts in his corner. . . . Some of the blows that Dempsey hits make this ring tremble. . . . Tunney is DOWN . . . down from...
Theodore J. Carron and Henry Koenig listening at different radios in Detroit 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...
...think Tunney is still champion...