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Show JACK DEMPSEY'S WALLOP BROKE ROPE i i . ,p i i, - - I. . i . . ' t r h r n ; ' A A if ii Half the youngsters who have mixed on the west side of the Rockies knew Jack Dempsey when he was first trying to get started in the boxing game. Eddie McKenna tells us of one of Jack's first bouts somewhere up in Utah. "I went in Jack's corner one night when he was boxing one of those birds who stands with his right hand and foot extended," says Eddie. "In the first round the fellow's awkward style puzzled Dempsey and between rounds I started to suggest to him how lie should avoid that right hand. Dempsey wouldn't listen at all. 'I'll show you how to handle this stuff,' he said, and, believe me, he did. "He stepped out of his corner with his right hand and right foot out, just like the other fellow. Then he let go with his left hand. He slammed that fellow so hard that he broke the top rope of the ring and the bird was out for ten minutes." |