Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1920-09-07
TAKES CHAMPION LESS THAN TWO
 MINUTES TO WIN Dempsey Floors Miske Two Times With Heavy Swings
 at Will IF, 1000 CROWD
 WATCHES BATTLE

Worlds Title Holder Lands Hard
 Blow as Soon as Fighters En-
 ter Ring and Gets But
 One Stiff Punch
 Ring Side, Benton Harbor, Mich., Sept. 6.-Jack Dempsey, heavyweight champion of the world, demonstrated today that he still retains the ter rife punch that won him the title. He knocked out Billy Miske of St. Paul, a fighter as big and game as himself in the third round of their ten round match. Three hard smash es were sufficient to win him be- tween $5O,O0O and $1OO,O00, his fifty per cent share of the gate receipts.
 At the start of the fight Dempsey peeled off the same worn and patch ed red sweater that he wore when he knocked out Jess Willard. His face wore the same fighting frown, he danced about the ring with old- time lightness of foot and finished up by taking the fight in the third round, just as he did at Toledo. The third round went one minute and thirteen seconds.
 Miske went down three times in the less than two and one half rounds of fighting. In the second he measured his length on the floor for the count of five. In the fatal third, driven to his corner under a rain of lefts and rights to the stomach and chin, the challenger took the count of nine, and just regained his feet when Dempsey, carefully measuring his distance, finished the bout with right hand punch to the chin.
 The fight was watched by one of the most orderly crowds on record at championship match. Women in bright clothing were scattered throughout the audience from the ringside to the back fence.
 Delayed special trains held back the fight, and in the confusion of the long wait, Miske, first in the ring, slipped through the crowd, scarcely noticed. Dempsey drew an ovation as he marched through the crowd. Miske was pale, his forehead wrink- led and his lips pressed tight as he sprang to meet Dempsey with the opening gong. He landed the first blow. Both challenger and champion measured each other with cautious tattoo of lefts and rights, none of them seeming to punish much. The crowd yelled at Dempsey to speed it up, and Miske grinned. Dempsey crossed left to the jaw and follow ed with q right to the stomach that fairly boomed with it's solid impact. Miske backed away and covered up, without showing signs of distfess. Dempsey finished the session by feinting with left to Miske's wind and followed with a right to the head.
 Finds Miske's Jaw.
 The second round opened fast with the champion trying hard to ] rock Miske's head with his left Dempsey found his opponents jax with terrific left that snapped Mis- ke's head back and left him dizzy Befor he had recovered the cham |. pion stepped in and bored upward with his right that landed just below l the heart and sent Miske sprawline on his side, half sitting.
 : Despite shouts from his handlers to take all the rest he could, Miske | struggled up at the count of five and backed away, covering his stomach , Dempsey rushed and Miske slipped in
 for clinch, but the champion kept one arm free and landed three shorl arm blows on the chin. Stepping r free, he swung with his left in feint } and Miske recoiled before the blow tIwhich never landed.
 yts. Miske came up strong in thu , tRxd and fought desperately. Ht i, bQr8 in with rapid exchange at3shQihx right to the body, but hil r spee6 froved his eventual undoing fo1 he billed to cover his weakesl l spot, the body Dempsey matchst [ fspeed for speed and the round wa. [ still ys6ng when his swift travelinl left found Miske's stomach again ans
 the challenger went down. At thi ,Ecount of three he was on his knee.
 but plainly suffering from the pun
 ishment. He took the full count ol nine before coming up.
 : As Miske struggled to his feet Dempsey stepped back and landed O fright hand swing square on Miske'l |chin. The challenger fell and witl
 Dempsey standing over him. VI : counted out in his own corner.
 T At the count of ten the victor lift , cd the vanquished into the chail : (which his seconds had shoved iAtQ T fthe ring. K II lliske. sitting in hin corner hf4n l: < :s..sss s1sss T. 1.ss1sss: ssses