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Show DEMPSEY DEFEATS WILLARD. Champion Throws Up the Sponge at End of Third Round. Toledo. In one of the speediest and most one-sided battles which ever deckled de-ckled a big fistic event, Jack Denipsey on July 4 won the title of world's champion heavyweight boxer. To all intents and purposes the Utah boy whipped the huge Jess Willard, favorite in the meager betting, in one round. Denipsey thought the referee had announced him winner and actually left, the ring. But he was called back and the butchery continued for two rounds more, when Jess, sitting sit-ting in his corner with , a bewildered look on his swollen countenance, failed to respond to the gong for the fourth round. "It was no use to continue," said the ex-ohanipion. "My strength went from me in the first round." Denipsey was breathing hard when the fight ended, but it was from exertion exer-tion and not from punishment. The attendance was below expectations expecta-tions . Seats were built for eighty thousand, aud the estimate was that not more than half of these were occupied. oc-cupied. Speculators lost heavily. |