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Edward of Wales: "Since TIME commenced publication, 25 weeks ago, Mr. Henry Ford and I have figured in more ' Imaginary Interviews ' than any one else in the world. Not counting this issue, we have both scored nine. Pugilist Dempsey and M. Clemenceau are tied for second place with five each. Hylan, Yolanda, Siki, Alvin Owsley (National Commander of the American Legion) have four apiece...
...Dempsey arrived in Manhattan en route to Saratoga Springs, N. Y., where he will watch the races and start training for his fight with Firpo, Sept. 14. Said he: "I'm willing to take on Harry Wills (Negro challenger) three weeks after Sept...
...ended the ring career of Mike Gibbons after 15 years fighting. Oculists pronounce the injury which left one eye virtually sightless, received in training, incurable. Gibbons known as " The Phantom " in his time was one of the greatest of the middleweights. He is the elder brother of Tom Gibbons, Dempsey's opponent at Shelby...
...money rolls in Sept. 14. Firpo has agreed, after prolonged haggling, to fight Jack Dempsey at the Polo Grounds, New York. Firpo will receive 12½% of the receipts with a $100,000 minimum guaranteed. By the time he returns to the Argentine he will be a millionaire -in pesos...
...Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion, has broken the charmed circle of Culture. A portrait of the pugilist by Alonzo V. Lewis, of Seattle, hangs in an exhibition of Western art at the Kansas City Art Institute, between a Spring Landscape and Indian Summer. The director of the Institute is in two minds about it. His first emotion was that "art was being degraded"; his second that "boxing is a man's game and a natural occupation " and therefore presumably as worthy of perpetuation in oil as any other slice of life. There is ample precedent; the Luxembourg...