Omaha daily bee., 1920-12-16
Dempsey Slips il
Over Knockout
In Twelfth Round
Champion Wins Hard Battle
In Twelfth Round Of Sched-
uled Fifteen.frame Bat
tie at New York.
By FRANK SMITH.

Chicago Tribune Omaha Beo Leased Wire.
Madison Square Garden, New
York, Dec. l5.-Jack Dempsey is
still the heavyweight champion pugi-
list of the world by. reason of his
knockout Of Bill Brennan at Madi-
son Square Garden last night.
Dempsey is still boss Of the
heavies, but he had to travel II hard
and serious rounds to accomplish
the task. The twelfth and final
round had just progressed ] min-
ute and 4o seconds when Dempsey
sank his left hand into Brennan's
stomach and followed ! j: with a
crashing right hand blow to Bren-
mans jaw. Brennan went down in
a heap, while Referee Johnny Hau-
kop started the fatal count. The
champion stood back a few PAGES
watching the operations of the Off
eiaf, and with his face smeared with
crimson, with cuts over his ear and
mouth, he surely did not present
the appearance, of a champion.
While Dempsey was the aggres.
sor throughout the greater part OF
the contest, Brennan surprised ev-
erybody by stepping along with the
champion at every inch of the way
Even right up to the moment that
Brennan received the crashing
blows in the twelfth round, II
looked as though the challenger
would stick it through for the limi'
Of IS rounds.
Brennan Starts Fast. -
In the very first round, when
Dempsey stepped out to take the
measure Of Brennan, the latter tur'
rished the champion with the sur
prise of his life by wading right into
his work with a relish. Dempsey
tried his famous shift, but Brennan
retorted with well-timed iet'
smashes that shook the titleholder
The second round found Bren
nan working a series of pppercut'
to Dempsey's head, and when h.
mixed il in furious fashion will
Dempsey at the bell the crowd wa
in an uproar as Brennan was. III
deed, making a fight of it. 1t wa
even in the third, but after tina
frame. Dempsey started to draw
away and had a slight advantage
in most of, the other. rounds.
Several times during the journey
Brennan shook up Dempsey witt
singing right hand uppercuts, bu
the champion would not be deniec
and kept shutting into his heavie'
opponent with one object in mind
that of getting over the finishing
punch.
Kick in Reserve.
It>appeared about the ninth rount
that Dempsey's sting had blown It
self. but Us events turned out, q.
was/merely keeping the proper kicl
in reserve. Brennan was out II
front at the end OF the ninth roun.
and fought on even terms WITT
Dempsey in the tenth. The eleventh
was also a furious round, and it wa
the stand that Brennan made at thi
| particular part of the fight tha. )e'
| many to believe that he woul'
weather the complete journey.
The final round was the tough spo
for Brennan< He came out con
fidently and approached the cham
pion, leading with his left hand. !
was here that Dempsey succeeds
lin working through the old one-tw
punch for which he is famous.
Standing with both arms extende
at about the same distance fror
his body, he feinted Brennan into
wide opening. Quick as a flash tn
champion drove his left hand wit
terrific force into Brennan's mid
section and with the same motto
brought his stout right arm aroun
with a sweep. The blow hnde
flush on Brennan's jaw and the. con
tender was out Of the proceeding!
| Brennan made a great fight goin
every minute that he was in the rim
with the worlds champion. Will
he suffered humiliation of knock
out, he was in nowise disgracet
Cheers followed the beaten man ur
til he disappeared into bis dressin
room.
Garden Filled.
| A steady stream of ticket holder
poured in each entrance OF Madiso
Square Garden as soon as the door
were opened at 7 o'clock and on
hour later every seat was filled.
was estimated that $4,000 person
were present and that the receipt
would reach 100000.
| The management announced th'