1961-07-18 — Page 9

FAME in their FISTS

PART TWO

Two

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1961.

punches-and Dempsey SONNY LISTON TO

had floored the champion

It was a boyhood dream come true for Jack Dempsey, the_ex-tramp whose rise to boxing fame had been tough and rough. He was in the ring with the giant Jesse Willard for the heavyweight championship of the world. And the crowd went wild as his terrible punches rip- ped in...

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It was 103 in the shade. In the oven-hot arena

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vast shirt-sleeved multitude fidgeted and fanned themselves as the sun poured down from a shimmering white sky. Suddenly mounting murmur-a hornet's hum of excited voices-buzzed in the drowsy air. Two men were approaching the ring, baking in the afternoon heat of that high summer's day in Ohio. The first- the challenger — had venomous screwed-up slits of eyes, jet-black hair, and the high, square cheekbones of his Cherokee ancestors.

Although he weighed a laugh- able 12st. 12 b. fur 3 weight,

heavy- There was an air of smouldering menace about him no he led down the aisle with

the padding, pigeon-toed gait of the Red Indian.

funk

The second the champion strode like a king through that sweeting, pent-up mab who, since early morning, had poured into the little town by horse, buggy, enr, and train.

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UNRUFFLED

Unrolled and contemptuous, be stood almost as fall as a telegraph pule and come on with the same relentless power os a sfemn-roller.

was Toledo, For this

Ohio, June 4, 1919 - the day when William Harrison Dempsey, ane time hobo and nither from Colorado. fought Jesse Willard, the Potawatomie Glant, for the heavyweight championship of the world.

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JACK DEMPSEY

He's a £3,000,000 legend

title and had never been knocked |

(T Orleans.

Hiy jaw and nose were broken, His face was as raw us uncooked beefsteak.

ribed.

rounds,

By ALAN HOBY

wrestling, exhibitions, referee ing, lecturing, and big business deals

Exhausted, all in, belted into a state of jóial collapse, he just slumped there, his muscles ilke water, the seeds of terror work-

After he had licked Willard Ing through him until all he into virtual oblivion. Dempsey wanted to do was

curl up and knocked out Georges Carpentier dle.

in four rounds, The brief sixty seconds rest raced away. Then, as the bell He had a tearaway, caveman clanged for the fourth round, Į battle with. Lols Angel Firpu, Willard-Jomehow-raised hh) "The Wild Bulk of the Pampas." swollen head blinked back the before stopping the Argentinian tears of Humiliation and In one round 57 seconds. croaked;-

"I'm Anished. towel."

Throw in the

THRASHED

Thus came to an end one of the most dramatic and mur- derous henvyweight champion- ship contests ever seen.

For 10 minites, after I was over the sagging Willard win unable to leave the ring or get tip from his chair,

BE REARRESTED

Philadelphia, July 17.

Charles (Sonny) Liston, the 28-year-old world heavyweight tille contender, will be arrested again, the District Attorney's office said to- day.

District Attorney James C. - Dežver, Colorado, and place Crumlish Jé sold wadrante will j himself under the gridae of a be sought for Elston and frazę pršeit, who has befriended him, Cooper, 16, who were arrested, bis sim being to réhabilitate fast furie 12 in Fainormt Park · himself and to learn to réző and

Both wt.se discharged by write magistrate E David Reiter co July 1.

taa & a

Ferra

as are Cooper and the water') they

averted of stopping-

Meniwhite, Lestoërs Boxingy were fence for been wididera" AP. By the PlanThreads Site Kihletic Centzialdim, ter ačilom detridental ta borting and tớ the subur.

During this knock-down clash Eston and Cooper were Flipo way stat to the boards i caught by a Park Foærd after ning times. Dempsey himself a chase in which are shot was twice crashed to the canvas, fired. They allegedly forced a Anishing up the recond time woman to draw her car to a autatde the ropes in the Press curb and told her they

policemen.

seats,

When, after bis legs had gone, Je twice fought and lost to Gene

Tunney

Charges

Crumlish said Liston would

him--tuning

ccred

Wolstenholme

leads in French Open Golf

Terstilles. Ínly II. Long-driving British golfer Gay

Wahdessa. who Earned predacional

Lew

Cottbu 320, today fed the way indo stomză zucnd play of the 72-bole French Open Golf Tournament.

(in 1920 and 1927) | 120,737 people paid 1,695,733 be rearrested on only two of

the original charges dollary to see the first night in Philadelphia, In Chicago the against

avoid destilention He had been drubbed, whip- following year another 104,943 lights to ped, thrashed beyond the fron-customers paid the colossal sum and resisting arrest, tiers of human endurance

He said the warrants will be by of 2,058,600 dollars to watch the the greatest fighting heavy return.

issued before Ave 2 dhe next scheduled Cate

Quaster Vodnated by a driving rain- weight in history.

Cros Sessions

Hea ca stamm, Wotriemholme, yesterday rearrest cases.

tushished a beautiful fece-under Liston, after his hearing Een

par 25-23-67 over the rolling the Athletic Commun. 55XX-rise

La (7,522-3and)

velns, turnedi and lott the

When Willard, calling on the off his feet, went out like a light bottomless well or his courage, In the third round in Philadel- at length tøttered upright, the|

! tanned, swarthy Dempsey phia,

As Willard furched out for the him, raking second round the cheering hush- Cari Morris, Uft. 4 in, and 10st. i varmed all over

And as Jack Dempsey, the "Stop, stop it." cried many killer with: Red Indian, Scottish, 11th. was stretched unconscious his blotched body with

uf 1 seconds ant in New, cracking volleys of punches.

the

with Irish, and Jewish blood in his spectators, sick Never giving the champion horror, And so the slaughter went on; even a half-second to gather his You for two more dreadful slaughter-house of Toledo for i

the challenger and bare

stood living senses, for peanuts

the Willard, mustahed only the last time, everyone in his stricken experises until, at last, in this menacingly over

by his own fighting heart and run-drenched bowl knew they bistering, scorching ring. came foe after euch stunning knock-

the subcowelous réflex of the had lived through nine minutes the jackpot fight....the brawl down.

true professional, took one of of fistic frenzy at its most to-u-Balsh with Jesse Willard, i So furious was Dempsey's most brutal batterings of all destructive. Never again would

the ring see such blasting, gut onslaught that when the bell time.

learing punching from the sts the end of the round, some

The gang knelled and like sounded

of one mau. predatory

blond, white-skinned Jungle cat, with the Dempsey catapulted frons

his Willard writhing helplessly on

the ground, no one heard it. stool ant leapt straight al Willard as he moved slowly The entire arene was a nad out from his commer.

racket of sound. And from every

of side Weaving and bobbing, punch-

the ring the fans

heavyweight

world.

champion ot

the

J

As Willard, who had worning at the body and brushing hollered, howled, shrieked

down the incomparable Jack

Jahnuon in 20 rounds to win back

nside a light Willard left

45:

screamed.

If it was feather, Dempsey

ile tle for the white ract', shot a left hook like a steel hauled his aft. din. 17st. 6b. bulk | rivet deep to the plt of Jesse's into the ring, he cast n eurious stomach. glance in the direction of the contender.

What by Jesse aaw did not impress himzz Indeed a superior, self-satisfied smile touched bis

ho nated thml

lips

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his

opponent, although starting just over 6ft. looked ludicrously small and light for a heavy weight.

GREAT CHANCE

There was a whistling Intake of breath, a chorlted cry from | the crowd as the sickening thud of the punch echoed hallowly through the staditun

,

Then, un Willard gasped with pain, Dempsey, surling and sporting, all civilised pretence

}}}} dead skin, t using off stralgltened up.

Finbbergasted, dry-moutherf, their

with stomachs churning atavistic pleasure at the terrov that was being unleashed under that while-hot sun, the Toledo Leetered wide-eyed

As the champion turned his towering white wall a back on Dempsey and waved those ringsiders

to hear

For six tortured initutes this thelle holk, who had entered that torrid ring so proud and resplendent, was no more than gamle chopping block Dempsey' whirling fiets.

tor

Once, his arms flapping feebly! tike Bac white windmills, he even

Today, 42 years later, Dem- pay, at the age of 85, is on American institution, neon- lighted legend in his own life- time.

FIRPO SHOCK

ان

Indeed, the record shows that

more

than any Dempsey did boxing and usher in the era ofre other champion to popularite big purses.

No, there never has been such hell-raiser as Jock Demprey.

a crowd-puller, such a glow d¦

in

In the words of his old rival, Gene Tunney:"His name his nost glorious days was magle among his people and te- day It is still magle.

was the top - great fighter-possibly the greatest that's ever entered ring."

"Jack Dempsey

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And Willard? He is 80 years old. He is retired and Tiva: with his daughter in California.

NEXT WEEK:

the surprised i uppercut Dempsey. But the feeble blow! Through the doors

his drew only a tizerish smile from famous restaurant on Broadway the Manassa Mauler before he go fim stars, dinlomals, gang- drove Withid back, back, backsters, statesmen, politicians, and with a Behining hatt of right | nobodies-all 10 be greeled and left hooks.

whenever Jack is there, with a

The champion who bear-like handshake and a warm signed his own death round: "Hiya Feller."

SAVED BY BELL

Meanwhile, the referee, unable the clang of the bell in the uproar, went on counting "one, two, three, four." right

to "ten." when, amid thunderclap of cheering, he Finally, as the third falsed Dempsey's arm as the ended at Jast. Willard victor,

to his corner Hike A bu Talo.

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it's all over. We've won," crowed Dempsey's manager, Dee Kearns. Then, alarmned by the number of half-demented fans trying to climb into the ring, the "Dee" yelled: "Com. Let's get uutta here."

Dempsey, a jagged grin

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telescople arms at the cheering on the edge of their seats as triumph washing the grinness fans, his thoughts could almost the edge of their seats

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from his face for the first time, be read: "This is easy.

another terrifying left hook, noxides, and leaping over the What have I got to beat?"crunched against each confident wave seemed to plon's temple,

telegraph to his mass porters,

chain-

the

PULVERSING

Back went the big man's head

of sup

Dempsey, however, simply sat fout and reowling on his stool, Beetle-browed, unshaven, keyed as it would snap

way

ropes, began to light bis back to the dressing-rooms.

But, suddenly, from the ring- side there were angry, hysterical shouts.

"Come back," bowled a volce. from his "It's still on." cried another. spine. Agony, searing, and para-"Como hack pronto," rasped a lysing, shot through him as the third. punch, ripplag right through, care

up to screaming point by the

slow-drip torture of waiting, the Mauler from Manassa nothing for what Willard thought or did,

For this was his make-or- break chance the Baht he had dreamed of since childhood.

This was the light he had prayed for, slaved for, starved for, suffered for, arhed for, and gone through the very gates of hel! for,

In the hard and hungry tinies he had ridden the railroad rods

cavert in his cheekbone and As the clamour grew Demp- burst his right eyebrow wide sey, horrified, mouth open in open.

consternation, stopped, turned Then, down Hite a building and stared.

hit by an earthquake, he crash- He hadn't the faintest notion ed with a bene-jarring thud

what had happened. Nor had

which could be heard even by the scafting, istoxicated harde the parched customers in thear well-wishers who ruffled his dusty bleacher scats.

hair, pounded his buck and roared "Good old Jack,”

The crowd went berserk. For the first time in his career Jesse Ward had been thumped on to the floor. Giving

the underdog from the West, had felled the giant with just two punches.

beneath the Pulknan cars away more than 4st.. Dempsey, those narrow, swaying girders where one slip, one fractional lapse of concentration at 80 miles an hour could mean death. or, at the very least, horrible mullation.

The fans had never seen any- thing to equal that Brat wearing rush the pulverising speed, the pantherine savagery, the

He had lived in the hobo jungles. He had been broke, a butchery and the anguish. "bun:" wondering where he

JAW BROKEN

But the man who had thought was the new world heavy- weight champion soon found out... WILLARD HAD BEEN SAVED BY THE BELL....

It was unbelievable but there he was sitting on his stoot anil being worked on by his seconds. Moreover he was still in the

would pick up his next square dered smile on his face, crawl- tion of quitting while he could As Willard, a foolish, bewight and clearly had no inten- meal. tie had

licked. been

ed and struggled on the canvas smarted unconscious in hard-like some vast crippled beast,

stand or even breathe, boiled mining camps.

hovered the terrible

his nbs over him

in splinters, his ear hanging by Agure of Jack Dempsey,

a shred.

UNCONSCIOUS

But all through he never for

got that boyhood dremn.

Each day he chewed the jaw- breaking, glutinous gum

hom

Now, every neck, every eye

forwards and up was craned wards, riveled on that hot white square where boxing: history was being written.

For Willard was UP.

At the

pine trees to strengthen his count of six the champion was

chin. Several

times a day ho on his feet--and the whirlwind

ducked his face into a bucket was on him.

of evil-smelting beef brine unti

hide.

okin was a tough on cow-

And slowly, grudgingly, out

FANS COWED

Appalled yet Tarcinated, the of fallure and setbacks came the crowd watched as Dempsey, his vielories, the knock-outs, the cowl as black es a storm cloud, sensational exhibitions of mur-seythed in rights. an lefts to derous fighting energy which the body, then slammed another galvanized people in their sents crushing left hook to Willard's and had them asking "Who the jaw. Down thundered the big helt Is this guy, Jack Dempsey?" boy for a second count of six.

At Milwaukee he kneeked out Altogether, in n display of Bill Brennan, a top title con- pure slugging und ravening tender with a right which swung feraelly never equalled in tha him right round and broke his ring. Dempsey bludgeoned his ankle as he went down. You enormous adversary to the deck could hear the snop In the SEVEN TIMES in one round. furthermost seats.

Fred Fulton, oft. 81⁄2ló, fall As the massacre increased in and the No. I contender for the Arry even that shouting host of championship. Was flattened fight fans were coved by the stiffer than a gravestone in 10 bloodshed.

seconds at Harrison, New Jer- For this wasn't à fight. It was dey.

slicer ring murder....an execu| Tattling Levinsky, who went tion....a throw-belt to bar on for the light-heavyweight) barism and the Dark Ages,

Dempsey, if he still wanted that title. would have to begin all over again. When the bell tolled the second round in a few seconds would have to come out punchingt as hard and hs merellessly as ever.

The stark, naked courage of the champlon who, at the end of the first round, had been dragged to his corner like a broken auck

of flour, was incredible.

Fur he was an appalling sight. His right eye was completely closed and all the ringside onlookers could see was a large blue moon with a grey Twitching alt in the centre.

Sports Diary

TODAY

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reeled i Durby his fabulous career blinded Dempsey has earned more than £3,000,000-from fighting, radio,

Four D. Jones THE DEVILIS BY MADDOCKS

UP TO HIS TRICKS AGAIN

THIS IS NOT ONE OF MY TURHS, CHIEF THIS IS THE

DEVIL'S WORK

FERDINAND

NANCY

YOU SEE, I TOLD YOU TO BE MORE CAREFUL, NOW DO YOU GELEVE ~ME, MATÉ 2

Он

THIS GREAT

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-London Express Service).

SUODENIY....

NOT CONVINCED

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GONE MAD!

NANCY--- WHY ARE YOU WATCHING TV WITH THE SOUND OFF ?

I'M NOT---

-ERMIO

BRICK BRADFORD

SATURN SADĪS BRINAR MØR SPACE- SHIP IN FOR A LANDING ON ALPHA PORADO

THERE, IG SOMETHING

WRONG AT THIS POINT

I SHOULD HAVE

RECEIVER ANOTHER

SIGNAM?

I'VE GOT IT

TURNED

DOWN VERY LOW

NOTHING FLASHING

FROM THIS TOWER}

***THIS PROGRAM IS MORE FUN---

„IM PRILLING UP!

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CONTIROL!

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