Norwich bulletin., 1920-12-15

ound. Demnsey,s ronnd

round. Dempsey's round.
 Round Four: They exchanged body blows with both hands and then landed light left and right hooks, at. close quar- ters. Dempsey blocked a left lead for the
 face and sent a short right over the
 heart. There was good deal of inef-
 fective work at close quarters. Brennan, sent his right twice to the, head. The champion came back with a stiff left to
 the face and a short right cross to the
 ear. Then Dempsey met Brennan with a
 left hook and shot two vicious rights to
 the head Dempsey was putting more
 steam into his blows at this stage and
 hooked lefts and rights to face and head
 Brennan was bleeding from the mouth
 when he went to his corner. Dempseys
 lound.
 Round Five: After some short arn ex-
 changes and a clInch, Dempsey was eau tioned for touching lis man lightly on the face in the breakaway. Dempsey lodged a right hook and sent three hard rights to stomach and ribs, forcing Bill into neutral corner. He looked his right twice to the stomach and when they came to the center of the ring again drove hard fright into Brennans mid-section. -Bren-
 nan sent two rights to the body just be- fore the gong rang hut it was Dempsey's | round by a good n argn.
 Round Six: They fiddled for half a | minute, tapping each other lightly. Then Dempsey hooked his right to the head and 1 Brennan retaliated with two right body blows. They exchanged hard body blows with both hands and Dempsey hooked a. | stiff left over the heart. In the mixup | Dempsey hooked his right to the wind and blocked snlany attempts by Brennan with short arm uppercuts. Dempseys round. 1 Round Seven: Dempsey jabbed left to | the face and hooked two hard lefts to the
 body. Dempsey kept jabbiag with his left l and missed right hook. Brennan's re- turns were very light. After. some spar | ring Dempsey drove his right hard to the body and hooked a short left to car.
 Brennan sent his right to the head but
 received a stiff punch on the nose from
 Dernpsey's right in return. Dempsey put
 two rights to the head just before the | bell Dempsey's round.
 1 Round Eight: After a few exchanges at
 close quarters, ,Denrsey fet go his left at | full length to the body Then he tried
 right cross which grazed Brennan's chin. i Brennan hooked left to face and Dempsey hooked left and right to head. Dempsey | missed another right cross but came back 1 quickly with right and left to head, shak-
 Ing Brennan up. The going became a bit rougher at this stage with Dempsey hav-
 ing the better of the exchanges. They 1 were fighting in close quarters in Demp tey's corner at the bell. Dempseys round. l Round Nine: After moments sparring
 with Dempsey on the ropes. Brennan crossed his right to the head. Dempsey
 came back with left and right to head. | Then he, drove a long right to the. stom-
 ach. At close quarters, Dempsey <"sent
 half dozen short lefts and rights to the body and kept after his man with pro-
 voking left jabs. Dempsey ducked into | a short right uppercut but sent back left l and right to the body. Brennan hooked left to the face and two rights to the head. Dempsey shot short left 10 the | body. They, were sparring at the bell Brennan had . shade in this round.
 Round Ten: Dempsey danced around, | prodding left to face and head, with Brennan turni7a. around in the center of
 the ring. Brennan missed left hook and Dempsey drove right to the body. Demp- sey sent three short urpercuts to the face and hooked three lefts to the head, while Brennan was holding with his left: At close quarters, Dempsey used short rights effectively to the head and almost drop l ped Brennan with a right cross to the
 jaw Brennan rocked on his feet and I Dempsey hooked left to the jaw. Bren- T ma, although seemingly in trouble, fought
 back rnanfully, but was forced; to clinch
 after Dempsey had jolted him with a
 short left and right hook to the face.
 Brennan looked pretty well used up when
 he went to his corner Dempsey's round. r. Round Eleven: Brennan came out in fairly good shape and they exchanged lefts and rights to the head, one of, which | cut Dempsey's left ear. Brennan missed
 right cross and. Dempsey hooked his left hard to the head. They exchanged short
 left uppercuts and Dempsey drove his
 right 10 the head. Brennan fell into q
 clinch to avoid Dempsey's right but Dempsey pushed him off and sent left an6 right to body They exchanged lefts ano rights to the head. but at close, quarters | Dempsey landed three or four short righ S arm jolts to the body and neck. Demp sey's round. $ Round Twelve Dempsey bled consider ! ably from the mouth and eir while in hii $ corner Dempsey led right to head ant
 Brennan landed similar blow. They ex
 1 changed rights to the head and Dempse! l ljabbed left to face and put a hard righ h l to body. Brennan landed left to face anS 4 I Dempsey sent right to body. At clos. d quarters Dempsey shot two hard lefts t : the body Brennan landed left to tn 0 head but Dempsey stepped in with lef
 and right to wind ard drove a hard righ il over the heart and hooked his left to, tn
 stomach. Brennan crumpled and almos : doubled from the effects of these blow h and as he tottered toward the floor Demp n sey sent him sprawling on the ropes wit : right smash on the head. The blow owe :. the heart had done it's work and Bren d nan, while he tried his utmost to regai f his feet, only rolled about on the floor 6 :. the ring while Referee Hukup counted oi a the ten seconds. Brennan's seconds the jumped in and earned their man to hi ,a corner The champion showed no othe ' outward effect of the battle than spli = left ear, which bled profusely. The tim ,, of the twelfth round was 1..57. >
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