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Article: Dempsey was out of ring, still in fight.(SPORTS)(THE WAY IT WAS)(Column)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- September 15, 2009
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Byline: Dick Heller, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The nation's most renowned sports writers were tapping typewriters or dictating to Western Union operators at ringside when a surprise package weighing 192 pounds landed in their midst with about 45 seconds left in the first round.
It was Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world.
The date was Sept. 14, 1923, and challenger Luis Angel Firpo, a menacing Argentine known as the Wild Bull of the Pampas, had knocked Dempsey clear out of the ring in the first round of their title fight at New York's Polo Grounds.
In his 1954 autobiography, The Tumult and the Shouting, famed sports writer ...