Life — September 15, 1927 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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Who Wins in Chicago? UCHL conversation these days about the forthcomin’ Dempsey- ‘Tunney dispute. For the most part it simmers down to personal likes an’ dis- likes an’ goes on without much real think- in’ on the side lines. To commence with, we got two settled facts be- fore us. Tunney whipped Demp- sey. Dempsey beat Sharkey. Reasonin’ from that, the question now is ‘TOM MIX, WHO MAKES His DEBUT THIS WEEK AS A ConTRIBUTOR TO Life, 1s AN INCURABLE FIGHT PAN. IT Is GENERALLY CONCEDED THAT HE LOST MORE MONEY ON THE FIRST DEMPSEY TUNNEY FIGHT THAN TEX RICKARD A lot of stuff WoN, BUT HE Hopes To REcour Was printed WHEN THE BOYS MEET AGAIN aN about Sharkey AGo. not usin’ his head in the Dempsey bout an’ that he disobeyed instructions. Sharkey dis obeyed nobody. He used his head. He made the only kind of a fight with which he could have won, He had to win and win decisively in the first two or three rounds or he knew he was lost. Sharkey, his manager and a lot of the fans had been fed up with a flood of so-called expert opinions, claimin’ that the Dempsey of old was now nothin’ but a “hollow shell.” If Dempsey was a hollow shell, my horse Tony is a Shetland pony. When IT was in the army we had a lot of hollow shells. But the “hollow” was filled up with Lyddite, Cordite, Dynamite an’ a coupl'a hunks of ‘TN'T throwed in for ge The only trouble was that key an’ a lot of ‘em didn’t know what was in the “hol- low They just read “hollow” and let it go at that. If the former champ had been the physical weaklin’ a lot of the writin’ boys deseri Sharkey to go out an’ slip the Injun sign on Dempsey in the first two rounds, an’ he was so advised. This he tried to do an’ while he shaded Dempsey in the first two exercises, S —who wins in Chicago? measure d, it was smart for arkey discovered the hollow shell was takin’ the best he had to offer an’ standin’ up under 'em, At the end of the third deal, Sharkey knew he was holdin’ bad cards an’ commenced to dog i where the fight really ended, a-winnin’, Sharkey is a great fighter, but he don't hold up ina losin’ stretch. I know Dempsey pretty well. with * right I've boxed an’ wrestled p since he first became champion. For quite By Tom Mix a while last month, he used the gymnasium on my ranch in Los Angeles an’ I saw a lot of him. We boxed an’ roughed it around the ring together. To-day, Jack Dempsey is the same eager, willin’, shifty and heady fighter he was when he beat Carpen- tier. His step is quick an’ elastic. I know his style an Uve watched closely to see where, if any place, he is slowin’ up. I'm in a position to know about these things an’ so far as I can observe, there is little change to be recorded Now then, Dempsey is goin’ to meet Tunney. Dempsey knows exactly what the present champion can do. In Philadelphia he took the best Tunney had to hand out and, sick man that he was—an’ I personally know Dempsey was a sick man on that night—Tunney’s best didn’t feaze him. ‘Tunney hit Dempsey with every- thing in Philadelphia except’ the Liberty Bell an’ the William Penn statuc, but Dempsey kept his feet. Tun ney landed one clout that smacked so loud it woke up part of Philadelphia but it didn’t put Dempsey to sleep. Dempsey carried the fight to Tunney all the way through, which, ay every boxer knows, lays a battler wide-open an’ gives his opponent every opportunity to Jand the much coveted K.O. blow. But even in Demp ened condition, the best Tunr y could manage a It was the first avyweight world’s championship not won by a sey’s wen : the distance get the decision knockout an’ the first time it was ever captured by a man walkin’ backward O you know who was the most surprised man in Philadelphia over the result of that fight? Tunney Do you know the most painful fight ‘Tunney ever fought? It was while he was a-holdin’ down a ringside seat in New York, watchin’ the Dempsey-Sharkey set-to. He saw a different Dempsey from the one he knew an’ the hurtin’ part of it was that the new Dempsey was the Dempsey he'd got to meet. The present champion knows what he did to Dempsey in Philadelphia; and just as well, he knows what he didn’t do an’ also what he’s now got to do if he wins in Chicago, What's more, in New York, Tunney saw that Sharkey, admittedly a harder hitter than himself, wasn’t makin’ much progress with what he was a-handin’ out o, that’s that. After the New York fight, a nationally known “TUNNEY LANDED ONE CLOUT THAT SMACKED so LOUD IT WOKE UP PART OF PHILADELPHIA BET IT DIDN'T PUT DEMPSEY TO SLEEP.” comicbooks.com