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...Jack Dempsey: " I bought a controlling interest in the Great Western Coal Mining Company, a $3,000,000 Utah concern. I was elected President, and Jack Kearns, my manager, Secretary and Treasurer. As a boy I was a coal miner and my whole family is engaged in the mining business. We are going to build a mining camp and call it Dempsey City...
...world that Langford did not care to meet was Jim Jeffries. Even when Jeffries was slipping back Sam used to say: " Ah'll take 'em all, but doan gimme none ub dat big hairy boy." There are those who say that Langford at his best would have defeated the Dempsey of Toledo and of Thirty Acres...
...time heavyweight champions were not the giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd Johnson, matched to meet Willard in New York in May, stands 6 feet 1 and weighs 195. Willard...
Eugene Criqui, French featherweight and champion of Europe, will train at Manhasset, L. I., for his impending battle with Johnny Kilbane. He has leased the house where Georges Carpentier conditioned himself to fight Dempsey...
Chorus men.--G. T. Barker '23, A. C. Bickford '24 W. E. Crosby Jr. '24, J. H. Dempsey '23, Duncan Dunscombe '23, Harrison Gardner '24, M. H. Harris '24, F. K. Kernan Jr. '24, J. J. Lee '24, L. B. Lockwood '24, and Darragh Louderback...