Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onetime World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, 59, popped up in Buenos Aires on his first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through...
...Buenos Aires to take part in a sports festival honoring Argentina's President Juan Peron: onetime World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey...
Quaint Habit. Spike made Navy boxing his life. He taught all his midshipmen the same jabbing, skipaway style that saved Gene Tunney after Jack Dempsey flattened him for the famed long count in 1927. And he was a bug on conditioning. All Webb teams did road work before reveille; all Webb boxers developed washboard bellies. They needed them. Coach Webb had a quaint habit of slamming his fist into any abdomen within range, by way of greeting...
When '29 returned three months later, Cambridge alternated between mourning the death of President-Emeritus Eliot during the summer and cheering over Gene Tunney's victory over former heavy weight Jack Dempsey. Al Jolson in "Big Bay" was ht star of the hour and thousands of alumni were looking over the shoulder of Arnold Horween as he schooled his first football team...
...months of professional fighting (16 victories, one loss, one draw), Hurricane Jackson has put on 20 Ibs., now stands a strapping 6 ft. 2½ in., 192 Ibs., and is still growing. Former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, a ringside witness of Jackson's butchering of Bucceroni, appraised Jackson's prospects: "With experience, he'll be a great fighter...