Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1927, Page 36

on o0 Ematio SPOR1S. ns of Crowd WRITER WATCHES CROWD INSTEAD OF GLADIATORS However, It Is Easy for Him to Follow Trend of Big Scrap in Expressions Their Excited Su Editors: This is a_story of how the Tunney-Dempsey fight affected the biggest crowd ever gathered around a ringside. Fred Dye, an Associated Press staff writer, seated within two | feet of the ring. but with his back to the fighters, did not see a 8i blow struck except as mirrored to him through the faces and actions of the tremendous crowd that he faced September =~ HICAGO, 23 () —Two lithe-muscled athletes stripped to the waist and en gaged in the most primitive combat known to man pro- vided a spectacle last night which thrilled 130,000 spelibound_men and women, but those same 150.000 p sons, gathering in the purple vast ne: about two gleaming bits of flesh od a_spectacle fit to thrill the uld it have watched rthletes—Gene Tunney Jack Dempsey—each of whom worn the mnimbus of heavyweight champion. were intent only on ench other: 150,000 pairs of eyes, the eves of statesmen, of financiers. industrial leaders, movie stars, celebrities from every field and just plain citizens, were intent simply on those two, but at least one pair of eves watched only that tremendous sea of faces, and through it read a story of the battle, Cosmopolitan Gathering. In the vast throng the business of | dual combat with fists for pecun gain reached its height, and in the un- | precedented struggle a fight crowd ched its eatest proportions. ited States Senators, governors, so- ciety leaders and men and women who purchased tickets only by dint of hard saving mingled in $40 ringside seats and in the dim distant reaches of the $5 sectors, two and three city blocks away. In their reactions to the conflict it was Kipling's old story of sisterhood under the skin, of Julia O'Grady and the colonel’s lady over dgain. Gov. Fred Green of Michigan, Gov. Len Small of Illinois, Frank L. Smith, United States Senator-elact for Illinois; George M. Reynolds, Chicago banker: Mrs. Samuel Insull, wife of one of the world's greatest executives; James J. Jeffries, sometimes termed the greatest heavyweight champion of them all; George Brennan, leader of Illinois de- mocras Mrs. P. D. Armour, IIT; Jackie Coogan's mother; Lou Emerson, Tllinois secretary of State; Kenesaw M. Landis, base ball commissioner and former Federal judge; Mrs. Glen Eden of Chicago, a petite brunette and one of eight women in the first 10 rows faced; Mrs. George F. Rider of Chi- cago and young Frank Rider; George Getz, millionaire coal man and nominal promoter of the fight; one man in a khaki work shirt and thousands upon thousands more were there. Falls to See a Blow. When the gong first clanged and| the former champion dashed across the ring as if to annihilate the man who dethroned him last year, the writer turned his back, and since Dempsey missed his first viclous -strike, did not see .a single blow struck, although for the next 39 min- utes the observer sat with his back 2 feet from the ringside in which one of the world’'s greatest man-to-man struggles was recorded. He found the story of the struggle in the crowd’s involuntary muscular reactions, its eyes, faces, cheers, booes and exclamations. | the ringside cha on Faces of Fans and pport of Rivals. rudiments of the craft, was not going so good. “Tie him up like a hag ienie,” shouted a huge man in the mt row, an assurance that Gene was getting in his famous art of rendering ent the killing thrusts of 1 uler. A general relaxation and anxious turning to peighbors in wide-oved wonder told the round had ended, with both men on their fect Round Two: The crowd hitched forward. A 1 {man wildly chewing gum, his jaw thrusting forward pugnaciously. half § himself from his seat with an hoy Gene, a beauty left to the dy." A moment of relaxation and | [ then the whole throng surged up- ward with shouts of “Let 0. Jack let ‘er go once more.” The left, which Jack Kearns said he ta to use hy tie his zht Dempsey ht arm to his body, and the right as well—old | “iron mike” were pummeling the | | champion. A youth with a smuggled amera half arose | he sighted his machine at the ne | activity. Jeffr nterest was great- er and he was talking out of the side of his mouth to a neighbor, but with never a glance excepting at the ring. he milling was getting hotter. Then came the relaxation which proved actually had bacl as neighbor talked to neighbor w in home movie Z th smiles or gestures of grim determina- tion. It was the bell. Round Three: 7z shoved his hat over on the f his head. but his face to nothing of the milling. Landis sta d_intently but, excepting for his bobbing from side to side as if swinging _with blows, he revealed nothing. Back to the big gum-chew- ing man who, between rounds, switched to a black cigar. The big cheroot might have been a rapie; He now was a Dempsey fan and satisfled that old Jack was going guns. “Keep crowding hi J ," he yelled. *“Hold it hc Evidently Jack had a slight edge in the exchanges. Jeffries dragged hiy cap down over his eyes. Round Four: Smiles faded immediately. The bat- tle was more deadly in its earnestness, “Go on, Jack,” rang the shouts, indi- ating Dempsey was on the offensive. ‘Tunney can’'t hit him with that right.” Gene seemed to be missing. The crowd surged in its seats. Sen- ator Smith's face lost its smile. Mr: Iden gestured wildly and smiled e: cited happiness. Jack was going good. She wanted him to knock Tunney.out. Faces were tenser and lines were ap- pearing under the hard glare of the ring lights. Everybody for hundreds of rows back of the twenty-fifth was standing, showing the exchanges were hot. The cheering was in a constant roar and all for Dempsey. The old warrior was getting the better of it. Then everybody 8 up and there was- a long-drawn ‘“‘Oh-h-h-h!” “Demp- sey’s gone!” they shouted. The tide of battle suddenly had turned. The champion was coming into his own. Round Five. ‘The minute of rest was a bedlam. The crowd stood up and was shouting and cheering wildly when the bell rang. The men previously had re- moved their hats for the benefit of those back of them, but now they kept them on. *“Hit ‘im a haymaker, Gene!” “Atta boy, Gene!” rang the shouts. Dr. John Dill Robertson, had | small woman in THE EVENING Tell a Vivid Story of How Championship Battle Was Fought S TAR., WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, SEP TEMBER 23, 1927. SPORTS. somebody had missed a punch and the ringsiders knew it, but away back it scemed to have connected, “Go it Demprey.” next showed Jac got | home some socks. “Jack sure smacked | him a couple then.” yelled the l\il:i man, now chewing his cigar just like | he had the gum. Round Seven. | “Dempsey’s round” echoed. Jack must have done some fine pummeling | wave of pent-up emotion—the human 50,000,000 HEAR | BATTLE OVER RADIO By the Associated Pres | NEW YORK, September 23.—A tidal race's primal love of physical combat : —surged through the world when that previous three minute: A i iy g L e e (oa | Gene Tunney retained his champion- | pretey and with a blue hat on. Her |Ship laurelx at Chicago. .By radio, ¢ g Al i) U'lcable, telephone and telegraph, the ves ‘were rather wild and gleaming | GiiiG FEEDIONG And, telesraph. the | when she turned them into the light. | uiet fell, showing the glidiators had fallen off in their man-ki | ng and were | sparving again. One grand surge to | feet, wild gesturing, leaping up and down shouting. That quie interval was 1 Jull before a storm. Fierce milling now. Getz, Landis, Dr. Robertson, Senator Smith, and all were up. “Tun' | ney’s down, Tunney’s down,” rang the | shouts, Every man, woman and child | in the vast stadium was on his feet wavin, shouting and doing Indian {war lances in e circumseribed limitations of na oW aisles. “Oh, what a count,” 1id the big man iene's kill him Dempsey; t him Jack The champion had been | down for nine, but now was up again | and weathering the storm. Round Eight: seconds on my watch | shouted Jimmy De Forest, vete trainer, who had timed the Tunney knockdown. Throughout the arena shouts of “sit down, down, down.”| Dempsey v was not follow- in 4 or Tunney again was applying his gr skill in clinch- | ing. There was a soprano voice. A woman far back eamed. The ex-| citement of that knockdown was still in the air. The board of the ring re- sounded fo a steady tromp, tromp. The movie kid was shouting wildly and again he forgot to shoot. “Boo, what a c} ,” told that Tunney be. lieved the better part of valor. Up jumped the crowd. Demp- sey is down.” was the shout. Down | sat the crowd; Dempsey had not taken a count. A man far back made a| megaphone of a magazine and shouted | and the bell rang. { Round Nine: “Yellow, vellow,” told that Tunney was staying away. Judge Landis bit his stogie and watched wide-eyed with face set as sternly as the day he fined a Standard Oil Co. ,000,000. A the tenth $40 row had to stand to see over the crowd. he was chewin as fast as her jaws would him out,” rang a cr Not so much of a round. Some r tion of faces and forms and the bell tolled. Round Ten. Everybody was up. They remained up. “No knockdown, he pushed him down.” Again the champ was down, but there was no count. *“He can't lose it; on you, . Every one in the crowd was doing the same thing, standing and shouting lustily. “Oh, Jack, fight him,” in fearful, tearful ies, told that the old mauler's last stand was not so good. “Take a lead, Jac pleaded Leo P. Flynn, Demp- sey’s manager. “One minute to go,” De Forest informed. *“One minute to go, Jack: take a lead,” pleaded Flynn anew. “Thirty seconds, Jack, “punch, punch. “Twenty seconds,” intoned De Forest. “Punch, Jack, punch, take a lead,” moaned Flynn. Out in front the same men and women who three rounds before had been yelling for Jack to slay Gene now were yelling for. the champ to lay low the old title holder. A dead giveaway that the once nearly somnolent Tunney was fully aroused and giving a tiring old gladiator all he could stand up under. The bell. A unanimous decision by referee and judges was in Tunney's favor, but the crowd was strangely silent. Chicago ever was a Dempsey town and its favorite had lo:t. 24 STATES IN B‘OXIE BODY. The National Boxing Association is represented by members in 24 States of the Union and affiliated national | “Twelve Dempsey was fl ners of the carth, where men women of many races had anxiously | awaited the outcome. The immense crowd that attended | the combat at Soldier Field was but a handful as compared with the untold | millions that heard the news through | the media of modern science. Radio officials_here estimated today 5 000 persons in | on radio sets in | shed to ‘the far e and | s or in pub- > gathering places. | In “Farthest North” in Canada, ppers huddled around the radio sets 1bins; at the other end of the | world, in South Africa, thousands | stayed up all night listening to what | the ether waves said | In staid London the morning pa- | pers held back their regular editicns | nd printed thousands of words t had been sent by wire and cable dir from the ringside. Short-wave sets picked up the fight in many parts of the British Empire. In Paris American Legionnaires in attendance at the convention | cheered themselves hoarse when the news came that their “buddy” had won, for Gene was a Marine in the World War. The foreign press agencies hurried the news through all of Furope and Asia to awaiting thousands and yawn- ing printing presses, On the high sets passengers hung around the receiving sets of ocean liners. Mayor James J. Walker of New York, father of the “Walker box- ing law” in New York State, return- ing to this country on the Ile de France, requested the news to be sent to him by wireless and it was done. The news even trickled in behind prison walls to condemned convicts in their death cells, Prisoners in Sing Sing prison at Ossining and in the State prison at Trenton, N. J., heard the radio report in their cells, R LONDON NEWSPAPERS CARRY FULL REPORT By the Associated Presa. . LONDON, September 23.—The ma- jority of Londoners got their thrill from the big fight by reading the de- tails in the morning newspapers, the late editions of which were held two or three hours for the detail No attempt was made by the Br ish Broadcasting Co. to pick up the ringside radio account, but several private individuals heard everything on short-wave sets, The “wireless correspondent” of the ening News sat in a room in north- western London and heard the account from Station 2XAF on 32.77 meters. In his report he says: “The ~announcer's voice almost trembled when, in the seventh round, Dempsey knocked Tunney off his feet. “The final ten seconds were in. tensely thrilling. ‘Dempsey is almost out! Tunney has caught him with his left, his right—left—Ileft—right” the announcer said. Then the roar of ‘Gene! Gene!' Then, 30 seconds later, Tunpey’s own voice in a dozen words of greeting to listeners all over the world. He hardly seemed out ' of breath. “Not a word had been missed from start to finish.” BIG GAME ON SUNDAY. Herndon Fair'lous and St. Mary's Celtics of Alexandria will clash Sun- Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. CHICAGO.—Gene world heavyweight champion, defeated Jack Dempsey, challenger (10). “Big Boy” Peterson, Biloxi, Miss., defeated Johnny Grosso, New York (). Chuck_Wiggins, Indianapolis, beat Jimmy Byrne, Louisville (6). George Manley, Denver, won from Yale Okun, New York (6). ° Billy Vidabeck, Bayonne, N. Tunney, J., de. | feated Jack McCann, St. Paul Armand Emmanuel, San Francisco. feated George Larocco, New York (6). Martin Burke, New Orleans, won trom Benny Krueger, Germany (5). TORONTO.—Doug ' Lewis, Toronto, defeated “Young” Firpo, Louisville (10); Bert Hillier, St. 'Catharine Ontario. won from’ Friedman Pepper, Denver, Colo. (6); “Frenchy" Delanger, lel | Toronto, won by a technical knockout | rom Ray Shauers, Youngstown, Ohio ); Eddie Speaks, Louisvilie, won from ommy_Mitchell, Toronto (6). BOSTON.—Johnny Indrisano, Bos- ton. defeated Joe Dundee, Baltimore. world welterweight champion (10)— non-title. |WEDDINGS DELAYED TO LISTEN TO FIGHT BLOOMINGDALE, N. T., Septem- ber 23.—The Dempsey-Tunney fight in Chicago last night deferred a dou- ble wedding here, which was post. poned from- last evening until Satur- day in order that the prospective brides and bridegrooms might listen in on the radio account of the battle. Rev. Charles Waldron, pastor of *he Methodist Episcopal Church, had ar- ranged for the wedding of Misses Anna and Minnie Cook at the church parsonage and had witnesses ready, but he was notified that owing to the fight the weddings would be de- ferred. One of the bridegrooms-to-be had money up on the fight. (T 0 0 B ) ) COMPARE THESE SHOES % SOUTH AFRICAN FANS : STAY UP ALL NIGHTi | CAPE TOWN, Union of South | Africa, September 23 (P).—Thousands of persons throughout South Africa | remainded up all night to hear the | radio description and result of the | Tunney-Dempsey fight, in which in.| terest was at & high pitch here. The adio announcement of the decision | for Tunney was received at 5:50 a.m., | South African time. A few tuned in on short-wave sets to the direct broadeasting from | America, but most of the listeners | were served by a rebroadcast from | the Cape Town station, which made | the words of the announcer at lhrl | ringside audible to the owner .of even | llh? smallest seat. | | "Local newspapers printed full de. | tails of the fight, with photographs and detailed personal stories about | the two men, and the Cape Town Times this morning published a_spe- | cial breakfast-time edition, captioned “Big Fight Special.” The result came as a surprise here, and thousands were disappointed at Dempsey's failure to ‘“come back most of the money bet here being laid on him. | | SUES HIM FOR $15,000 By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, September 23.—Sheriff | Charles Graydon yesterday | served a summons on Gene Tunney in Tunney's bungalow headquarters, on top of the Hotel Sherman, in the $15,000 breach of contract suit brought against the champion by Thomas M. McHale, who said he formerly was Tunney's social secretary. Sheriff Graydon said Tunney was “looking serious, although he did not appear to be nervous.” The summons was served just after the champion had returned from weighing in before the Illinois Athletic Commission. Actual photograph of original model for which we paid $11.65, We Pa TUNNEY’S SOCIAL AIDE | | pi STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE IG doings in a golf way are to| handicap affair, with many of the be on tap at the Indian Spring | leading players of the city—once Golf Club Sunday, when the|caddies at the old Columhia Golf semi-finals of the club cham- | Club—entered. George J. Voigt, pionship will be played, with | District champion, is expected to p the prizes to be presented at a tourna- | He once toted bags for members of ment dinner to be held in the evening. | the Columbia Golf Club on the ol Fred C. Clark, who defeated Tom | Georgia avenue course. Moore, the defending title holder, last | Sunday will clash in one-half of the | semi-final with . 1. Putnam, while | teid W. Digges will meet Felix E.| v in the other bracket. Prizes will be presented at the tournament | dinner Sunda night by Perry B.| chairman of the club golf committee, ‘Washington Golf and Country Club's hampionship is to be held Octobet 6. 7 and 8 for the title now ‘worn by Frank K. Roesch. ck Tommy Armour, Congressional prq angd, holder of the national open cham. ip, now on another barnstorm: . is pointing his game for the hibition match to be staged Octo her 2 at Congressfonal, when Armouy Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes, former Dis- trict woman's champion, and runner- up in the woman's Middle Atlantic tit | and Johnny Farrell will play the last ular event last vi will be unable to | haif ‘of a iy Aol s Byl play. in the Midatlantic fray this year| popaid “Smith and Gene Sarazen, at @ongressio Mrs. !l ynes, \\hu: The fir half of the match s to be Nas been on the Facific Coast wost ol piayed: at ilis Edkeville: Goi ‘ang Summer, does not plan to be back | ¢ountry Club October 1, Smith's home in W mg"tm IIIHH‘I Uf‘:(llvor 10. 'I;h"“ o Armour has put up half thy championship will be plaved October A 5,8, 7and 8. Entries for the tour- i Lo i s p.m. Octoher 1, and | e b e e Ancie 6o < | BIG FORCE NEEDED | TO HANDLE CROWD fon, at the Congressional Coun Another member-guest tournament | is to be staged at the Manmor Club | tomorrow and Sunday at 18 holes medal play handicap. Members must v with guests and suitable prizes; CF September 23— An have heen put up by the club golt army of 5500 emploves—a crowd of committee. sell-out proportions for the average | boxing show—was needed to handlg Employes of the Interstate Com-|the recording-breaking throng when merce Commission are scheduled to|Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney compete in a .medal play handicap |tangled for the world's heavyweigh( tourney October 3 for a trophy put |championship last night. up by lawyers who practice before the | There were 1,500 policemen thrown commissfon, |about the field, inside and out; 400 |ticket takers at the 50 400 Members of the Brightwood Ex-!ticket inspectors, 400 directo ta Caddies’ Association are pointing for {guide the customers to their sec- thefr fourth annual tournament. to be | tions and 2,800 ushers, head ushers held at the Argyle Country Club on|zone commanders, lieutenant usherd Sunday. The tourney is an 18-hole |nnd others. | By the Associated Press. 0. 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