Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-15
IEAPsEY's BEST FIGHTS
] HAVE BEEN WITH BIG MEN
Has Found 1t Easicr to Overcome
Giants of Ring Than Smaller
and Shorter Opponents.
pDEs ILL FOR WILLARD
asra Flynn, Only Battlcr Who Ever
Knocked Challenger Out, Was
His Inferior in Height and Size,
but Floorcd Him in First Round.
BY JAMEs J. CoRpETr.

ss3SCne OF the most remarkable things
4 ABOUT Jack Dempseys career Is that
3sais most spectacular performances
nave been against big men. With
s,sQSmpsey II has been the case OF The
jsotggcr they come the quicker ,.cy- go
4SEaiants have been easy for him; lttl,i
5sfellows either have whipped him or
I5ield him Off.
The tallest specimen of manhoC ID
5Sthat ever faced the Utah Maule r.
was Fred Fulton. WHO towers clos
tgso feet inches. He had 1t on Demp-
isey in that fight by nearly four incllc
I IN altitude, several inches in reach and
Ssnany pounds in weight. But it re-
sssNired Just two Dempsey punches md
ysEestepner to topple Fulton into a
f3tate of Inconsistencies.
Carl Morris is about Fulton's nize.
Tf'ellow. but the day that he met Nor
sas In New Orleans Dempsey looked
ike a middleweight In compa rison
Sxtth his powerful appearing rival. Yet
s3pempsey knocked out Morris W lth
s left-handcr to the stomach and in a
ta;otal fight time Of about ten secc nds.
sSs Smith Defeated In Two Roun hs.
Gunboat Smith is just about pemp-
Wounds to dispose Of him. On tho other
Wand. Arthur Pelkey, who is abtt ut six
5eet three inches tall went do, IN and
Sifty-one seconds Bob McAllist n. who
sorty pounds lighter ii ;ha anu p @ffeS
as New two We r minutes ana ten SCI ,onds
The only man that ever knocked out
JACK Dempsey was Jim Fly IN. who
,laSSomplished the trick in f rs,ruary,
sGstilightweight in stature, bei,,s about
I've inches shorter than Dempsey.
lack outweighcd Jim nearly twenty
save pounds too. but Flynn reached
s5ack with pile driver in the very
,,lrst round. and down and out went
lats meteoric career only two men have
t3one the route with him, an ii each has
oeen shorter and lighter than Demp-
Meehnn Has Held on dempsey.
s.d Mis not sfhar is seiow indi
much smaller. Fur;herm, ,re, Meehan
srssr mas that done o,,a anythInE during his
sSmong the truly greats az pugiiism.
SEet he has twice held or Dempscy's
sttacks that sent nearly forty other
s'fn rst clash s0 s snlhvi %ssbaD
ssan francisco Dempsey won the de-
sa asEa,y blu but he outpoln ted Meehan
s!hey met was on Septen her l3. 1918,
syhfle Dempsey was whir ling along AT
cyclonic rate along I Ale knockout
jSoute; He had stopped n half dozen
lien IN succession. five o them In one
isound. But Meehan SLY Gged 1t with
Dempsey. met him at h Is own game.
40 showed no fear of tn "Aiauler': he
lever backed away. Al id at tho CON
Illusion Of the fourth rol ind the rcfcrn.
gaye the fight 10 Meeha 4.
81 HnA Not Stopped II lilly Ni.ke.
n Billy Miske is smaller than Demnsev
t5et sthis fellow has tax zen on the grco;
'isa.Tior in TWO bout and Dempsey
iSfsss sIa stopped MN. hey first met in
~: tdui on May ), 1915, in a ten
founuer. KinSside eN perts insist that
},,empseS was outpoh tied. and that II
ne iGIelet mao oeen permitted 10 give
81 tui'hS. nc Would ave awarded the
Sbnt ~ilhout any ne station to Miske
sbSA, ssl1-rounder in II hiladcluhia an NJ,
Efember IS, 1918, wa the second .nd
azst meeting between the two IN 49,
..asht dempsey asSe rted himself but
lae was uhaDie 10 kr pck out his phan-
1v!H rival MiSke opt away, avoided
55ii Oh dempsey heavy blows and
SS yhen the gong endf al the sixth round,
llttshe was sttil on Is feet. smiling and
quite eager to go o ~. Still! Eurthnr
HgAs can pc seen, = tire smaller the
She bigger, the cas- Ter The tallcst -;
ftSempseSs ioes Ia 'e been his easiest
chat Dempsey ever fought Il 10 49,
me VINO mas ever knocked him cold
dempsey enthusiasts Is, remembers ~,
,2UGSess OF thelr !d' 81 and recalling that
~ liaro Is inc t.!I ,st man in pugilism
iS3X ya,iS.s uec!sre: IS good night, Mr.
90 H} Lara ana sooo night in a hurry"
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