Show I Jack Dempsey tb the Mauler I i s Is Back as Challenger For Crown of Gene Timney Tunney By N NEA EA YORK YOm Feb From 7 27 From to riches NEW rags r ts rIches that's that's Jack Demp sey And here he Is la back in the rank and file again ila clamoring Cora fora for Cor a ahot shot at the th heights Ills IUs ascent was sensational his his end on water soaked a canvas Philadelphia ring was Vas almost ignominious JACK lArk lApi William HarrIson Dempsey attained the the 1 championship In the th quickest and most sensa- sensa DEMPSEY DEMPSEY l manner ot or all heavyweight kings kint and he SA SAYS YS ruled the longest He Hi was Tas wa the eighth ot of the tho modern dynasty extending back to John 1 L Sullivan van and nd ho he Is Ja still considered by close students tho the great greatest cst In the seven ven years 1919 l to 1926 1 2 Dempse Dempsey defended his hi worlds world's laurels successfully Jy against five men Up until the thi Tunney tight only one on man had gone the route with him That was Tommy Gib Gibbons bons ot or St Paul vho ho bo on July 4 1923 dodged the Manasa Mauler MauleY for Cor 15 II losing rounds On July 4 1919 Dempsey knocked out the ruling leader Jess Willard a a 3 massive I Kansan ansan and began to make prizefight history Gate receipts were busted as frequently as he h busted opponents on the Jaw lie Ho started off oft by meeting Dilly Billy a former Cormer conqueror at Denton Harbor on Labor Day 1920 19 0 lie He floored poor Billy Dilly three times In two rounds and knocked him unconscious with a right richt to the jaw broken hearte became ill and dIed during the year the victim many claimed of or those lists fists Next Nut December he hi h i came into New York and knocked out Dill Bill I In the tb twelfth round Brennan made it tough touch for Cor for I 10 rounds however and had bad Jack bleeding at the th nose mouth and andears ears cars until ho bo succumbed On July 2 1921 he knocked out Georges Geones Carpentier at Boyles Boyle's Thirty Acres putting across tho the wInning blow In the fourth round Ninety thousand saIt saw sa It and set seta n a receipts record of or 1266 0 On July 4 1923 lr be beat bat Gibbons a decision over the tha round 15 15 route Two months later laler on September 14 1923 he be h knocked out Luis Angel Firpo who hall had h d a a short hurricane of or a 1 career carter here In this fight Firpo after hitting Dempsey seven times In a row rov whaled away with a like club rIght It caught Dempsey Demsey flush on the chin The force Corce of o the th terrific Impact sent him spilling through the ropes Into the typewriters or of o the press row lie He II was helped back b ck into tho the ring and In a raising hair flurry bat bat- battered battered the Argentine boxer to the floor noor for Cor keeps Ills last bout was with willi Gene Gen Tunney at the bowl Phila I delphia It Jt attracted and broke all aU records Dempsey lost his title through Judges decision Both Doth men fought la In a pouring rain rain- rainstorm storm ruin storm There Ther eio eie el e no DO knockdowns Rumors that the th fight was queer are ar still rampant Dempsey once before figured in a a queer bout Ho He was knocked out by Jim Flynn FInn In one on round A J Auerbach ot or Salt Lake City then his manager said he h did not regard the th bout as rIght and cast Dempsey loose c |