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Gibbons, the "phantom" who lasted 15 rounds against Dempsey last summer at Shelby, Mont., received ?10,000 for seven minutes' work. Basking Boxer Bloomfield was given...
...thunderously cheered by the crowd. Stretched limp in his dressing room afterwards, Carpentier assured questioners that he had been struck foully. Descamps echoed his charge, only adding that he felt sure the thrust had been accidental. Asked if he would now retire from the ring, having been beaten by Dempsey, Gibbons and Tunney, said Georges: "Never! Not now. I want to avenge myself on Tunney...
...patrolmen threatened to shoot. The murderers surrendered. They were Frank Rassi, taxicab chauffeur, and James Hughes, onetime pugilist. Their motive in killing Brennan was obscure; it was thought that it had something to do with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey at Madison Square Garden for 12 rounds in 1920, a feat which he repeated against Luis Angel Firgo at the same place last year. He was, however, never considered a front-ranker in the fistic world and retired after his disastrous fight last Fall with "Billy" Miske (now dead), when...
...Dempsey. He does not manhandle...
...pound Negro fought a 185-pound Irishman. Harry Wills of New Or leans, repeated challenger. of Champion Dempsey, won a decision but failed to knock out (or even knock down) awk ward but plucky Bartley Madden. Indeed, as the fight progressed, Mad den began to wax more and more potent while the giant Senegambian "appeared to be tiring from his own efforts." Counting those who graced telephone and telegraph poles that over looked the arena, 20,000 persons saw the encounter. Madden absorbed ter rific punishment at close quarters - he was soundly whacked on eye, jaw, crown, ribs and solar...