Show DEMPSEY IS HIGHEST PAID MANIN MAN I IN It THE WORLD DRAWS FOR EVERY SECOND HE BATTLES r SHELBY SHELDY Mont June 25 How 26 How would you ou like to be paid at the rate of a a. second for hitching bitching a a. pair of six six- ounce gloves cloves to your knuckles and punching a fellow into ten seconds of sleep That is the speed at which Jack Dempsey worked when he cut Georges Georg-es Carpentier down at Jersey City Dempsey put in seconds of actual fighting time with Carp The Tile champions champion's chain cham I pion's purse was wa which up to toI that time was vas the highest amount ever paid a fighter for a single battle Dempsey gets gete before he ho steps I into the ring against Tom Gibbons That Thatis is the new top prize money now Dut But he is not likely to earn as much much- per er second as h he ho did in the tho Carpentier I fight Many critics believe that Gibbons will go the tho full distance o of fifteen rounds Unless unless un un- less leu he himself decides the outcome with witha a II knockout In the tho Brennan fight Dempsey got It took the tho champ eleven rounds round one minute and thirty seconds to stow away the Jawed Iron-Jawed William He earned but 48 30 per second in this trip to to the tho well For knocking out Billy 11 1 like at Benton Harbor Dempsey received 67 It took him seven minutes actual fighting time to do it it His earning power pow pow- er cc was 52 per second The Tho Dempsey willard-DempseY fight lasted tasted nine full minutes Dempsey got for tOI his end end and and the heavyweight title Ills earnings per second In the Toledo mill rom were wera 60 92 In his last four tour battles Dempsey has earned an average of ot 49 per second The longest fight in America Marquis of Coney Queensbury ei Island Athletic rules was club fN fought November at the 28 I 1892 1891 between Buffalo Duffalo Costello and Aleo Also I It went It-went ent eighty rounds to a I draw That Thatis is four hours or minutes or seconds If Dempsey had one fight like this 1 under his hll belt at his average rate of or earning n power p per second d he would make enough n her f 1 float the h na national o war debt In dollars and nd cents it would amount to 00 But Dempsey never had a battle tb tWit that at long and Jong and he never will until Shelby grows crows to be aa u big as as' as New York City How much will D earn July 4 per second j L The rhe champion will get win lose or r draw How long it will take him to do it is something else If he ho should be deposed by b- Gibbons the earning power of the tho St. St Paul fighter will then thea grab Jab off oft the tho high per second earning power oer |