BOXING ANECDOTE
LINE-ON JACK DEMPSEY Jack Dempsey Mas for a time one of the most unpopular champions that ever climbed into a ring. I remember the time and place when the switch occurred and the cult of Dempsey-worshippers was: born. It was some time between one and two o'clock in the morning of September 4, 1920, when Dempsey returned to a Philadelphia hotel room minus the heavyweight championship of the world. Gene Tunnev had battered him almost beyond recognition . Seconds*, hangers-on, reporters, crowded into the room behind him. A lovely woman came to him with tenderness and took him into her arms for a moment. Lightly she touched his face. One side was completely shapeless, red. blue, purple" in colour, welted and bruised, the eves barely visible between ridges of swollen flesh. "What happened, Ginsberg?" she said. Ginsberg was Estelle Taylor's pet name for her husband. Dempsey grinned out of the good corner of his mouth, held her off for a second, and then said: "Honey, I forgot to duck." From that moment on, everybody loved him.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 93, 19 August 1942, Page 6
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177BOXING ANECDOTE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 93, 19 August 1942, Page 6
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