Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1927, Page 35

SPORTS.’ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. €. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1927. Tunney Admits He Was in “Hot Water”: Dempsey ProbablyIs SMELLING SALTS, “LITTLE HELL,” BROUGHT HIM BACK Jimmy Bronson, Gene's C| hief Second, Credited With Arousing Titleholder After He Had Been Floored in Seventh Round. ! FIRST ROUND. Dempsey missed a left lunze, nz mto a clinch _Jack piled in with two left hooks to the vils a in In the clinch that followed he | clipped Gene four times with a right | lon the back of the head. They| | sparred cautiously- Dempsey prefer ving to feint for openings. while Tun ney laid back. Gene snapped a L ft s chin and followed with smash to the chin | to Dempse, 1 solid righ 6 ; Jack fell into a clinch. taking an Br the Associated Press I “Bhon't Sworiyiiahiout me.tin: ail) A JRCE L EE @ CTE SRE Hz:m\h:“ r ’\P;‘m\mh'{r % '"'\‘ right.” Gen= said. So I gave him the jack dropped a left on Tunney's hody. | 4 littie hell™ sa ced . the | smelling salts. [ JTack backed away while the champion e el i gl ) | tollowed him acro-s the ving with « | heavyweight championship for | Gene Tunney. title holder =aid so himself today. The whiff of aromatic spirits_and the strong lan of Jimmy Bron son, Gene's chief second, sent the champion out from his corner in the eighth round “fighting mad” to whip Jack Dempsey, the punching men-. ace, who had floored him for the count of nine in the seventh and taunted him to “come on and fight.” In the general forum place at Tunney's hote] quarters after one of the greatest heavyweight fights in history. Bronson admitted that the arousing of Tunney to such a pitch that he met a tiring Dempsey at his own game and punched out a victory when the heavyweight crown seemed lost was not the object of the salts and tirade. But it won fu Tunner. *“Just a few moments before Jimmy told me to keep working toward Dempsey's right side to avoid the left hook,” said Gene. “I did that all right until Jack wobbled. Then 1 went in to get him. grew careless, and the first thing 1 knew I was on the floor. Could Have Arisen Sooner. first thoughts were. ‘What is th How did 1 get here? 1 ought to be ashamed of myself.' That smash stunned me, but gotten up all right at five. “But instead T looked acress to my corner, and there was Jimmy, wav- ing to me to stay down. So I did ui til the count reached nin. Then 1 made very certain that 1 would be hit with no more punches like that, &t least until my head cleared. “Dempsey said: ‘Come on and fight.’ He could have said: ‘Come on and get hit and knocked down again.' My lips never moved, but my mind said to Dempsey: ‘So long. Jack. I'll see vou next round when I'm feeling better. Then I werit to dancing, and when 1 felt better 1 came back and won the fight.” 1 could have the count of Bronson Tells His Story. Then Jimmy Bronson took up the tale. ““Gene came back to his corner after the seventh badly hurt. 1 asked him how he felt. “Then I asked |you feel, Gene! and again he an him again: ‘How do volley of left and vight hooks to the| {head close to the ropes Gene missed |swered, ‘Don’t worry about me, an overhand right as the hell sounded | [Jimmy, I'm all right." So that time ] ” J J | gave him a little hell, some more | SECO‘\D_ ROUND. | smelling salts and some more hell Dempsey was fighting cautiously, /and sent him out there to answer the | ADparently seeking to evade the dis- ell for the eighth. I really mads |astrous first round. such as met him him mad enough to chase Dempsey |1t Philadelphia last Fall. They came | around. but 1 didn’t know it.” | Tunney was unable to shake hands that * took | with his guests due to pain and sweil- | |ing-caused by too tight application uf |the tape used to bind his fighting | bandages. Not a mark showed on his face as he chatted with Maver Wil liam Hale Thompson of Chicago and | out hoxing a in and Gene shot a let: and right to the chin They were dancing., hoxing high Gene dropped an overhand right on Dempsey's chin after chasing him to |a eorner. |” Another right missed and Dempsey smashed a left to the body and thres | lefts to the chin before Tunney could | [dozens “of notables who held im- | jeft] fo th promptu court in the Tunney suite. | tie b a5 e R < {""The conqueror of Jack Dempsey |, Hands high. Jack dodsed awav | twice within a few days over a year |['om A righ IS L | had nothing but praise for the former |as they sparred carefully in the cen { ol o1 0 ¢ at of ter. e b ey i fihe | Funney's left was short. hut Dem | and talk of fouls, poor sportsmanship | f¢¥, merely fell into a clinch. —Gene | 1568 tons conats aamaned | missed two more lefts. while Jack | T RSP | clipped two short left hooks to the Thinks Dempsey Through. | body as Dempsey lunged low. Tun- | B fraid he's through, new," |NeY missed again. but manaced tn serie: aaldl & i wegretraity cateh himself and fleck two soft 1afts | | that his dream of regaining the title has faded 1 doubt if he ever will fight again. one of the greatest in the history of the ring, and the gamest foeman I ever face “I'd like another shot at him just {to prove that I could go out there nd sl with him. toe-to-toe, and vhip Fin: at his own game. I did it in the final rounds. I cowld do it again. { Byt the'man who wielded the smell- ng salts and doled out the “he'l” | when necessary shook his head. Ap- | parently mem that took every member of the Tunn | entourage when Gene suddenly hit the floor was too real and recent for com- | fort. | Tunney will spend the mext few fdays with friends in Clevelang before | returning to New York. He plans to |leave tonizht after sleeping moat of | the day. Within a week or two Gene | will hike for the Maine woods for a | vacation of indefinite length. He has no ring plans, sees no worthy oppo- | nent in sight. but would prefer to | fizht twice in the coming vear, it 'only to keep in. the best of condition. GENE PROVED TOO SMART FOR JACK, SAYS LEONARD BY BENNY LEONARD, Tndefeated Lichtwe'zht Champion of the World. CHICAGO, - Séptember 23. — Gene Tunney proved too smart for Jack Dempsey in the ring last n'ght. He gutboxed and outpunched . his . chal- fenger in all but thereventh round of their fight. In that-Found Tunney became careless. and tried to swap punches with Demysey with the“idea of knocking him out. In his anxiety. he let go a few righthanders ithat misted Dempse: Then over near Dempsey's corner when Tunney was just, getting ready to throw a right, Dempsey, with one of those old-time attacks of his, shot a short Jeft hook which caught Tun- ney flush on the jaw. Tunney went back on his heels and was starting to go down from ti punch when Jack hooked him with a right and another left to the jaw, which plopped Gere down much more quickly. Tunney was down and dazed. Demp- sey did not go to a neuiral corner, but stood there, and the referee, Dave Barry, motioned him to a neutral eor- ner,.and then took up the count. At the count of four ‘Tunney was in a sitting position on the ropes, taking the full advantage of the count like a good ring general. He got up and then .kept backing away from Demp- sey.” Tn the next round Dempsey went down from a little punch, a right, but it was more because Dempsey was a bit wobbly on his legs than because the punch was hard that Dempsey sort of slipped to the floor. He was up in-a jiffy. however, and the blow d@idn’t hurt him. Gene Grew Careless. Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey fought exactly 1 predicted they would. Tunney, the hoxer, staved away -{m waited for Dempsey to lead most _of the ‘time, but in the second round e showed a stiff attack. Tun- ney thought he might have a chance to knock out Dempsey, and he fought hard and fast in spots. The only thing was that Gene got careless in that seventh round and Dempsey zol lucky with his punches. I told you that he would be lucky with his- punches, but that I didn’t two punch and he hurt Dempsey sev- jeral times with it. Indeed, he made Dempsey wobble a few times. In the { ninth and tenth rounds Tunney show- |ed to great advantage, Dempsey was-| through then. He had shot his bolt in fo finish Tunney. He became arm weary and his legs were unsteady after that round. And 0, in the last two reunds, Gene had fully recuperated and tore in after Jock again, trying for a knock-out. His attack cut Dempsey badly over the eves, ¢ ! final roun”). Dempsey was in such bad condition that he came near stumbling down without being hit. Tn this round Dempsey landed no more than two or three biows, while Tunney continually punched him about the head. It was plain that Tunney had won the con- test and retained the championship when the final bell rang. And when the decision was an- nounced. every one in the stadinm | felt satisfied that Tunney had beaten | Dempsey. —The only question that arose from some of thé Dempsey fol- lowers was that Tunney was down for ‘2 long count. some saying as much as 14 seconds. Recalled Benny's Plight. | After the fight was over I rushed iback to Gene Tunney's dressing room | with him. Before any one had a word |to say to him I cornered and con- gratulated him on the heady battle | | that he fought against one of th»| | greatest fighters ‘that ever lived. 1| remarked to him about the wise move | that he made in taking the full count | and he replied: ! “Benny. I never should have heen | | knocked down. It was just a_little over-zealousness on my part. 1 was too eager to get Dempsev at that moment, and therefore left myself wide open—just as you did in your fight with Ritchie Mitchell in’ the first round. It was a tense moment for me. I knew I was down there, but in a few moments my head cleared and I could have gotten up. 1 looked down and saw you looking He has been a grand warrior, | ies of the heart wrench | the seventh round, trying desperately | Near the finish of the_tenth, the| [to Jack's face as the rounde ended. | THIRD ROUND. | Azain they boxed carefully, slowly in the center of the ring. Dempsey apparently was trying to tantalize Tunney into leading and making an open fight of it. Tunney sneaked over a pretty left | jab. but took a half dozen raps on the | back of the neck. Gene took the of fensive. driving Dempsey into the | vopes, where Jack tied him tight As they hobbed in the center Tlmv‘; ney led, and fell into Dempsey | straight 'right smash to the bodv. | | Gene held. while Jack clouted both | hands to the midsection | A right smash to the heart drove) Tunney back. As they fiddled abo Dempsey wove in close again to cuff | the back of Tunney's head with his vight and dig his left twice to the champion’s ribs. FOURTH ROUND. Dempsey took the offensive but Tun- | ney's right cracked on his chin. Gene's left found the same mark. | Whila Dempsey rapped twao lefts to the body Gene complained the blows | were foul and fought Jack desperate- | ly as they fell against the rope | Gene missed with a right and took | another left to the body. Jack was leading again now, short | left to the body. while Tunney count ed just as lightly to the head. Tunney | trving to mail Jack coming in. missed | with both hands, but saved himself | by falling into a clinch. | Two right smashes to the chin | | stung Dempsey. Gene lifted two mors | | 1eft hooks to the hesti and nailed | | Dempsev on the ropes. | A right sent Dempsey reeling into| the corner. A left hook nearly floored | him. iy | As” Dempsev lay against the ropes. | unned. Tunney misced with hoth hands and the bell Killed his oppor- | tunity. lar i FIFTH ROUND Dempsey's handlers worked furious. {ly on him during the intermission | while Tunney's handlers yelled that the stimulants were unfair. Tunney | missed a right and they fell into a clinch. Jack fell in close, pounding to the body. when Tunney over-anxious, d again. Jack backed away now, falling into the ropes, as Tunney took to the attack. ‘When Jack tied him up they | sparred out to the center of the ring. Dempsey bobbed - out of three left| Jabs. . Dempsey sent Tunney’'s head back with a stiff straight left. A right high on the temple shonk | Dempsey hadly. The champion backed | {away, however, content to Jab and | wait. In another clinch, Jack rapped again {on the back of Tunney's neck. Gene |dug two nice lefts into Dempsey’ { body at the bell | | flerce pace. [ THE FIGHT BY ROUNDS | JACK'S INTI Gene, badly dazed bhed Dempsey | with both hands and still was holdin; m fiercely the bell. EIGHTH ROU Dempsey D. me out in a crouch parently somewhat recovered, (ene stabbed with his left and clinched As Tunney backed furiously Demp sey made no effort to catch him, mere- | Iy walking after him and taunting h to fight. Tunney did fight, whippin 1 left and right upper cut to the chin As they missed vights, Dempsey lift- d his left to the jaw. In a clinch Jack again cuffed Tunney's head A smashing left to the body drove Tun- ney back and a right to the heart made him grab Jack. As Dempsey dodged a right, slipped to one knee for no gount. T; ling courag:, Tunney flew at Demp ey, pumping both hands to the head Again Tunney nailed Jack with both hands to the chin as the former chiampion bounded out of the ropes They were hoxing cauticusly. both tired, walting for openings as the round ended. NINTH ROUND. | Tunney's retreating tactics drew voos from the crowd between roun Jack grabbed the champion and smashed him half a dozen times on the back of the neck They both had slowed up from the Tunney’s standing in the center of the ring. held Jack off for a few moments with three straight | teft jabs. | But Jack bore right to close quar ters. Coming In Gene's right opened a_cut over Dempsey’s right eye. The champion went after the wound fiercely. snapping out hoth hands high to the head. Jack tried to bob. but two solid rights bounced off his faw Dempsey was wobbly, but he cocked his right Gene ran away. The champion came back. however, and rocked Jack again with swinging smashes to the hend i Dempsey came to his corner a bit wobbly as the gong sounded TENTH ROUND. | They shook hands in the center of the ring. Jack tloored Tunn with a left and right to the n. | Gene was up before the timer could | start counting. Jack's right smashed into Gene's head again and the w ‘ from Tunney's hair splashed over the | ringside ters. Jack. the tiger again, whaled in with both hands. but Tunney tied him up in a clinch. They paused. and as Dempsey dropped his hands Tunney whipped left and right hook into the Mana Mauler’s face. Gene came in to both hands to the While Dempsey appeared to tire Gene laid him on the ropes, but the | champion’s two-handed attack a bit wild. the attack, ripping head. | Dempsey drove several rights to the hody. Gene countered with a left, Badly staggered, Dempsey wohbled apout the ring as the bell sounded. The former champion, still groggy. | sparred dizzily after the gong. [~ m = v (7] m -<I > = = > [— - — AS TO LONG COUNT| By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, September 23.—xperts | at the Dempsey-Tunney ringside | agreed the champion got the henefit | of a “long count” in the seventh | round when he was knocked down, but | a majority also accepted the view that Gene would have gotten to his feet whenever “nine” was reached. Paul Beeler, the knockdown time- keeper, told several newspaper men that 13 seconds actually elapsed dur- ing the count, but that the surplus of 4 was due to the interval of getting Dempsey to the ‘‘farthest corner” pre- scribed by the rules. Here are some of the opinions of the experts: Damon Runyon, New York Ameri- can—*"It seemed a long count, even to a neutral. In my hearing the offi- cial timer admitted he counted 13, but Tunney was able to get up any time ‘nine’ was_reached.” Warren Brown, Chicago Herald and Examiner—"It is practically tertain that Tunney would have been up at the count of nine, no matter when it started.” - James J. Corbett. ex-heavyweight champion—If the long count rally happened, it was ‘due to Dempsey's own failure to go to a neutral corner as soon as Tunney went down. The referee was in strict accordance with the rules. | might | Luis Firpo, there was complaint be- | a SIXTH ROUND. y | "Harvey Woodruff, Chicago Trib- They boxed carefully several sec-|yne—Whether the count was long onds, before coming together for a |or correct, Tunney could have stepped flurry of body punches. The crowd |to his feet before he did. bellowed as Dempsey's right hand,| Walter Eckersall, Chicago Tribune— “old iron Mike." smashed under Tun-|“He was clearly on his feet at the ney's heart. | count of 10.” But the champion came back. rip-| W. O. McGeehan, New York Her- ping both hands to the chin. | ald-Tribune—Dempsey proved him- Dempsey tiring. fell into a clinch |self a great fighter, but he was fairly after the blows. = Bobbing in through | Jicked. a stiff left. Jack turned the champion | Paul Gallico, New York Daily half way around with a right hook to | News-—Dempsey should have been the head. | disqualified for fouling. He hit low Tunney came baek strong. But two more left hooks and a straight right stung the champion. Missing a long left, any number of times. Grantland Rice, New York Herald- Tribune—The count was all right, Jack took a |under the rules. It was a clean-cut |Has Earned Enough in Last Two Battles to Put Him On “Easy Street”-Fighter Has Not M MATE FRIENDS FEEL SURE HE’LL RETIRE l de | Known Inlentions for Future. September Dempsey. humping into a stone 1 along the weary old road that he | v heavy- | championship, pre has his last battle, | h definite word had come from Dempsey today concerning his de- cis‘on to retire, hut his intimate friends expect him to make known his decision very chortly, His frien helieve the lure of the ring no longer has any appeal for him, now-that he has failed in his quest of regainir the title from Gene Tunney, his con- queror of a year ago. | Dempsey. in two fights within the last (wo months. has earned nearly $300.000 to add to his rinz fortune made in_ his stivring battles with | ke, Carpenticr. Fivpo, Gibbons. | Brennan and his first battle with Tun- | Dempsey zot §317.000 for knock- | out Jack Sharkey in ths Yankee Stadinm last July. He was enriched to | the extent of $450,000 for his 10-round battle with Tunney last night Has Earned Big Sum. | A< challenger for the world heavy- | weight championship. Dempsey earn- ed $767.000 in two battles, a’ bigger <um than he had ever received in any previous yeai of amazing ring career. | Dempsey had no further comment | to make today concerning the “It)!!g: count” given Tunney when he floored | {he champion in that thrilling seventh | yound with a left hook to the jaw. He said that was one of the “breaks” | the his of the wame, and Tunney “got breaks—that was | never has been a ‘‘squawker | night was no exception. He accepred | the decision with a smile. refusing to add anything that might detract from Tunne victory. Leo P. Flynn, Dempsey’'s manazer, however, made the accusation that Dempsey was robbed Tunney | had been ‘knocked out that he intended to appeal to the Hlinois Siate Athletic Commissicn to have the de cision reversed. Flynn declared that the timekeeper gave Tunney sec- onds in which to get back to his feet, and that besides this “knockout™ of Tunney, Dempsey won 6 of the 10 rounds, 15 Seconds, Says Flynn. Flynn insiste that three stop watches timed the period of Tunney's knockdown as 15 seconds. Ring ob-| sorvers pointed out that Dempsey himself inspired the ring regulation. which, had he remembered it in time, have restored him (o the world’s heavyweight championship. The rule requiring a bhoxer scoring a knockdown to retire to the farthest | corner of the ring was made a ring | that | regulation when, after his match with | cause Dempsey hit the Arzentine after Firpo was struggling to his feet after a_knockdown. a warning to go into his own corner He stood there waiting for Tunney to rise when Referee Dave Barry ordered him to the farthest corner before starting ths count. | Delay Helped Gene. | George Lytton, of the judge$ made the surp statement to day that Dempsey's delay of three sonds in getting back to his own corner after Acoring Tunney really <t him the championship. Two legs, rather than two fists, coupled with a muddled brain, really kept Dempsey from the title. Two months azo he knocked out Jack | sharkey taking advantage of the | Boston Lithuanian's carelessness in | dropping his hands while making a protest of, foul to the referce. Dempsey won that fight by hair- trigger thinking. He lost last night by hecoming muddled in an emer genc “The critics were unanimous today that Dempsey. while an improved fighter over his match with Sharkey and al<o over his first contest with Tunney, no lonzer 1s the amazing fizhting _machine he was when he fouzht Firpo. The old fighting heart is still there He still packs dynamite in either fist but they he lacks co-ordination and speed in the legs. He appeared to be too slow to catch the retreating Tunney after the champion had danced away from the peril of a knockout blow. Dempsey Is Befuddled. Dempsey appeared to he befuddled, not knowing exactly what he had faced a similar situat height of his eer, the criiics sayv. he would never have allowed Tunne to escape. Once during that fer seventh round Dempsey's face twisted into the snarl of a wild beast, he had begzed Tunney to fizht instead of run, and he flew at him like the Dempsey of old. But it was only a 10-second spurt. he former world's heavyweizht champion displayed no marks of the battle today, with the exception of the two wounds over his left eve. The | higgest wound. a diamond-shaped gash, | was just at the edze of the evebrow, | whilé ths second was a gash an inch | ¢ long at the end of the evebrow Both were old scars caused in previous battles. | Dempsey had them treated immedi- ately after the fight, to lessen the pos- sibility of infection. Tnstead of jubilation, with a crowd | of admirers at his quarters in the | Hotel Morrison, Dempsey's first | thoughts after leaving the ring were | for his beautiful actress wife, Estelle | Taylol He did not go to his hotel. Instead he hurried immediately to the Edge- | water Beach Hotel, with Manager | Flynn and the latter's wife, to joln’ Mrs. Dempsey. He did not seem down- hearted as the car sped along the > SPORTS." 3 o Through With Ring FANS IN RIM-SIDE SEATS WERE PRESENT, THAT’S ALL For weeks the remoteness of the “rim-side seats” at Soldier Field gave newspaper paragraphers and cartoon. ists material for many humorou quips. Dale C. Harrison, an Asso- ciated Press stiff writer, viewed the Azht from this far-away $5 section. This is the story of his assignment. HICAGO, September 23 (P).— Let this be the Odyssey of the £5-seats: of the homo Sapiens who sat therein: and of the fight they saw—if any The the cheapest most remote in the crater that is dier Field—were really not as black as they were painted: They were blacker, <nid some of the spectators. The men who sat in them. and the women. be- have like martyrs during the first six-round preliminary, began directing barbed remarks at the policemen and ushers dt tractable after the third, and finally, like a flood, burst through the blue- coated levees and swirled down the \sles and over the planked seats into the £10, nd. in a few cases, the vingside reservations. Late in Learhing Result. Two-thirds of those, who remained in these rim-side seats, three city blocks from the ring itself. actually did not learn who won the fight until cometime afterward. This was due partly to their great distance from the white-lighted ri partly to the twist- inz thousands that screened their view, and partly to the confusion that seemed to exist in the ring itself. The referec’s count over Tunney in the seventh round seemed uncon- sciously long to the far-from-the-ring- siders, but as one of them explaired, light only travels 480 000 miles a sec- ond. Those who came late and had the | temerity to seek their exact location |bY a radio in a in the five dollar sections were greet- ed by guffaws from nearby fans and | even from the police and the ushers themselv for there had been much nudging forward, a row at a time, by those way back, so that the best of the cheap seats were occupled as soon as the first preliminary was on. Nearly everyone, 75 per cent, at an rate, carried some kind of gla. telescopes, field glasses or the little lenses that sold for a quarter. To these fiv-dollar folk without optical aid the ring was a dot of light on which. marionettes moved, swung their arms or rushed at each other, for all the world like figures in a tastic dream. The actors were <uch vague characters as one meets that dusk between consciousness and unconsciousness—unreal, eerie— and somewhat ahsurd. The blows with which Demp- sey dropped Tunney in the seventh were as obscure to the cave dwellers on the $5 planks as they were to jehus nodding over their wheels in taxis waiting outside. All that could be seen were two toy pugilists, one in white trunks, the other in red, knotted together in a corner until the legs of one of them seemed to melt, dropping a champion onto the canvas floor. Smoke Creates Fog. The smoke from tens of thousands | North Shore boulevard, but his anx.|of cigarettes, cigars, pipes and from | In order to eliminate all future pos- | jety to draw his wife into his arms |the flash powders of the cameramen sibility of question on the point, m‘ similar situation, Dempsey pro- | posed the very rule which had such an important bearing on last enight’s battle. Instead of going to the far- thest corner, Dempsey stood over the fallen Tunney, then suddenly heeded was apparent. — ‘The average age of the heavy | weight champions of the world at the | time. they lost their titles was 33| years. created a fog over the bowl. Those in the “izzard” seats experienced the sensation of seeiig the fight as though from above the clouds. Some of the more philosophical con- soled themselves with the belief that they at least could see the huge elec- ng the second, became un- | tric score board across the stadium {from them: a board that carried the |names “Gene" and “Jack” in yars- high letters, with a place left for the round number and the recording of any knockdowns. Even this trifling satisfaction was denied them, because when the fight got under way the holders of seats in front arose, blotting out the board. The dificulty of which most of the disgruntled $5 spectators complained |was not so much the distance from the ring, but the too slight sloping of ats. One advantage did these $5 sitters ve: They were nearest the exits, nd consequently able to get out first, These e dwellers of Soldier Field were “at™ the fight anyway, whether they saw it or not. And some of them learned who won—and this is no | exaggeration—when they hought p | pers downtown some time later, “GUESS I'M THROUGH . FIGHTING,” SAYS JACK By the Associated Press, | cHICAGO, September 23.—Jack Dempsey went back to his wife early today without the “bacon” he prome ised to bring home. | “It's all right,” said Estelle, when the had taken one good look. “I | thought from the radio story y. | been hurt.” s “It's all over,” Jack #aid, “T gue I am through fghting.” e “What's the difference?” T nce?” Estelle | After the seventh round had fafled to bring victory, Mrs. Dempsey, sitting in‘a North Side hotel, be- came hysterical, and it was some time | becore her companion could quiet her. |In the last two rounds, when Jack was slowly but surely losing. Mrs. | Dempsey hegan to weep. She threw herself on the bed and fainted at the |announcement of Tunney’s victory. ,‘ It did not take long, though, for her i o recover her composure, and by the me Jack had arrived, an hour later, e was calm and smiling. |FANS IN ARCTIC REGION { TUNE IN ON BIG SCRAP VANCOUVER. British Columbi: ptember 23 (). —Fans in the Far Northern sections of Canada, aided by telegraph and radio, “sat in” on the Tunney-Dempsey fight. In the Arctic Ocean region the Gov- ernment wireless station at Herschel Island, at the mouth of the Mackenzie River, was able to pick up the story of the fight. At Cambridge Bay, 1,000 |miles east of Herschel, the Hudson Bay Co. motor ship Baymaud, in Win- ter quarters, with only a wireless' op- erator and a carpenter on board, lis- tened in. . |SHIBE PARK “ALL WET,” A’S PLAY TWO TOMORROW PHILADELPHIA, September (P).—Today's scheduled .Km. Muf.'. the Philadelphia and Cleveland Amer- ican League clubs was postponed until tomorrow when a double-header will be played. A broken water pipe in Shibe Park was given as the reason for calling off the game. h 1 ight under the heart as they fell | vietory think he would be lucky enough to|at me from the ringside, and that | & 1 ; e SRy 1 gpable him to score a knockout.| memorial " moment that you wers *EI" 110 2 clinch iy Cooe s New, TR R a Vi ened. sitting on the ring floor in vour fight % B g AS foon as Tunney kot up after | suddenly fashed through my mind, SEVENTH ROUND. W eed Ut L il 2 a ; was_circling | so T took all the count, which I be| Dempsey's handlers pleaded witn BRI ut around retreating from Dempsey, | lieved was u wise mov | him to keep his chin %nwn. as ':e;?emnw YA robbet! n?; 8 k"Mk"}‘,’; Sven so, worst Jack, finally slowing down to a walk ctory. should have gotten was a draw. in his chase of Tunney, got tired and | 11 ebecss was a great champion. | came out bobbing. Weaving under | He deserves all the credit in the | Tunney's right Jack slapped a soft | motioned to°him to stop. making a | woerld for rl e . putting boxing in the class | right o the ribs, sort of ‘‘come hither” gesture with |t is now, amoni re rl g v i " g great enterprises. A volley of right and left hooks to | - his gloved hands. Just imagine Jack | Dempsey, hoxing will not forget you. | the head floored Tunney for the ryunt MANY EX-TITLE HOLDERS Dempsey being unable to catch a fel-| Tpe fans will always remember that | of nine. WITNESS HECTIC BOUT jow who is backing up, especially | | e o ey | You gave them the best vou had, and | Dempsey was on as a wildcat as ;flg:_. ‘l;:;::rl; o, r\'\’::‘e‘r;';\;:y\ one |that even though vou failed twice in | Gene pedaled backward around the| CHICAGO, September 23.—A great esatd Ard | your battle for the title, you have | ring. Dempsey was in close with a | zathering of foimer champions and ought to be able to go faster than T oponent can ko backward ordr. | Peen fighting right up to the finish. | smashing body attack ine;u’-vhnmplunfi of all sizes was pres- ; N 3 You don’t need boxing any more,| Tunney only could jump and floun |ent at the fight. D e ek, " " PeM™P | jack, but boxing needs you. You | der backward Dembsey rushed him | Among the ring notables who wit- "nempsp\' Kept hitting for the hody, | Still are great among the great heavy-| at the ropes and smashed u left and [ nessed the bout were Jim Jefferies, 1 predicted he would. Jack de. | Welghts of tod right to the body. Gene came back [Jim Corbett. Jack Johnson, Benny just as I p; 3 X | B A weakly. Jabbing a left to the head | Leonard, Johnny Kilbane, Battling serves much credit. He fought Tunney | 2 better fight than he did in Philadel- - — phia, in my opinion. He was almost | B. & 0. 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