Show FITZSIMMONS HAD HARDEST PU PUNCH Lanky Bob Given Credit for Punching Ability by Authorities Bob Fitzsimmons according to quite a t number of authorities carried the hardest punch of any heavyweight champion champi n. n Jack Jick Dempsey's punching ability was always regarded ns as inferior to that ot of Fitzsimmons It you yon care to base bose your arguments I Ion on the respective r records cords of Demp Dempsey ey and ons then Dempsey must be consIdered the better slugger writes H H. H G G. G In the Detroit News I Dempsey has bas engaged In eight where the heavyweIght title was In I He has scored a total ot of 22 I knockdowns I Dempsey knocked down Willard seven times In the first round of their fight In Toledo He knocked down Billy twice In the third round ot of their fight at Benton Harbor He knocked down Dill Bill Brennan once In Inthe Inthe the twelfth round at New York city lIe dt dropped Georges Carpentier twice In the fourth round at Boyles Boyle's Thirty Acres He scored seven knockdowns over Luis Luls Firpo In the first round end two In the second at New York city lie He floored Tunney once In the sev sev seventh round at Chicago In In only two of his tights fights dId Dempsey Demp sey Rey fail to score n a knockdown He Be could not drop Tommy GIbbons In their round IG-round bout at Shelby Mont and lie he failed to topple opple Tunney In theIr first meeting at PhiladelphIa last year Jear Fitzsimmons fought only three ff tights lIts ns as heavyweIght champion champl n and he scored but one knockdown James JamesJ J. J J Corbett was the only man Fitzsimmons FItzsimmons mons floored In heavyweight championship chum cham- competition The statistics therefore lean far toward Dempsey |