At lunchtime in St. Louis one day last week, Gene Tunney signed his name to a piece ... The winner of the tournament will fight Jack Dempsey (if Dempsey needs money badly enough to get in the ...
Toby McLean, a reckless sports writer on a New York City newspaper, covers the Gene Tunney-Jack Dempsey heavyweight-championship fight in Philadelphia. There he meets Ann Vaughn, a feature writer for ...
To many, the 1920s were the “Golden Age” of boxing. To those same people, the 1927 rematch between Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey might be the pinnacle of the decade. Tunney had just beaten Dempsey in ...
The ceremony was simple: Jack Dempsey climbed through the ropes ... an heir for Tex Rickard’s problems; next, an heir to Gene Tunney. In the last years of his career, Promoter Rickard had ...
It opened on July 21, 1922. According to the Advocate, well-known boxers, such as Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson, fought there. Gorgeous George, a wrestler known for his ...
Jack Dempsey, 25, from Torridge Walk, Hemel Hempstead, was arrested in November during an operation led by Hertfordshire's Police's county lines team. During searches of addresses in Stevenage and ...
The back-row is an all Glasgow unit as Jack Dempsey moves in to start in the back row with Matt Fagerson and Rory Darge. Rory Darge is also named as Co-Captain. Tom Jordan comes in at inside-centre to ...