Bisbee daily review., 1920-09-07

count of five In the fatal third. i driven to his conner under q rain of left and rishl smashes to the stOm- 1 ach and chin, the challenger took the count of nine and had just regained i his feet when Dempsey. carefully ! measuring his balance. finished the bout with a right hand punch to the chin.
 The fight was watched by one of the most orderly crowds on record at
 a championship match. Women in bright colOring 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 into the ring, slipped through the crowd, scarcely the champions camp presently arriv- ed to inquire if the challenger was in the ring. This formality Of the squared circle over the messenger
 hiked back to Dempsey's camp while Miske waited ten minutes for the
 champion, who drew an ovation, as he
 marched through the crowd.
 Miske's fighting togs bore his ini- tials elaborately embroidered in silk
 on the left leg. Dempsey had the regular red, white and blue costume. Miske was pale. his forehead wrin- kled 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 a 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 a left to the jaw and followed
 with a right to the stomach that fair ly shook Miske. Miske backed away
 and covered up without showing signs of distress. Dempsey finished
 the session by feinting a left to
 NIiske's wind and following with a
 right to the head.
 The second round opened fast with
 the champion trying hard to rock
 Miske's head with his left Dempsey found his opponents jaw with ter
 rife blow that snapped Miske's head
 back and left him dizzy and before
 he had recovered, the champion step- ped in and bored upward with a right
 blow that landed just below the heart and sent Miske sprawling 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 short
 arm blows on the chin. Stepping free, he swung with his left in feint, and NIiske recoiled before the blow which never landed
 Miske came up strong in the third and fighting desperately with his teeth gritted. he bored in with a
 rapid exchange, landing a right to the body, but his speed proved his even- tual undoing, for he failed to cover his weakest point, the body. Demp- fsey matched speed for speed and the round was still young when his swift i travelling left found Miske's stomach again, and the challenger went down. | At the count of three he was on his
 knees but plainly suffering from the
 punishment and he took the full count of nine before coming up. As Miske struggled to his feet | Dempsey stepped back. carefully m 1 SnrcH HiSta ward with right hand swing that
 landed squarely on Miske's chin. The
 challenger fell like a log, lying part l ly under the ropes and with Demp-
 sey standing over him, was counted
 out in his own corner.
 ! At the count of ten the victor lift
 ed the vanquished into the chair his
 seconds showed into the ring. ! The three round fight for the
 worlds heavyweight championship
 closed a day of sport that included
 a terrific siX-round draw between
 Harry Greb, Pittsburgh, and "Chuch" l Wiggins, Indianapolis, light-heavy-
 weights, and serio-comic six-round
 miXup in which Bill Tate. the elon-
 gated sparring partner who has be-
 come fixture in the Dempsey train
 ing camps, employed one of the long est arms ever seen in a squared cir ] cle, to make Sam Langford. the Bos-
 ton negro heavyweight, keep his dis
 tance. Tate won by shade.
 Langford. entering the ring at 194.
 reached almost to the arm pit Of the
 giant Tate, whose mighty bulk sent
 the scales sagging under his 23O pounds.
 The arena was nearly filled. and Promoter Floyd Fitzsimmons said that | 5000 persons stood outside, declining
 to come in and pay the $13, $22 and S33 demanded for about 1000 seats
 that he estimated stood empty. From