New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1926-09-04
SUoekBERG ADMINISTERED
MoG5 PUNISHMENT THAN ANY
or IACKS LA7ER FOES
Try LOE WILLIAMS)

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Any young journalist on inter
viewing a heavyweight champion,
whether in or out of season. is
bound by the rules OF his craft to
ask this question:
And my dear man, tell me who
gave you your hardest fght?"
And if the heavyweight champion
is gifted with the came amount of
originality that one customarily finds
in heavyweight champions, the IN
variable answer will be!
"Helsbells, All of EN- were my
hardest fights" This TO be followed
promptly by q hoarse, abdominal
roar indicating that the heavyweight
champion has pulled what you
might call a nifty"
Jack Dempseys answer started
out to be like all the others and
then hit an Interesting dotour.
of course, there was that fell
low Johnny Sudcnberg, l suppose
you'd say he gaze me pretty hard
fight"
BACK in 1910
Now johnny Sudcnberg may be
little more than new species of
after dinner mintor merely some
thing that is used in the dark prov
inces to create rain artiticially for
all the average follower of the fight
game knows, but he is a very I'M
pleasant memory in the life of the
heavyweight champion.
Yes, sir, l suppose you'd say
Johnny gave me pretty hard
fight added Dempsey. l fought
him back in 1915. was pretty
much of a hick in those days. |
didn't even know anything about
fighting, and that's like saying ]
didn't know anything.
out west of the Mississippi
Johnny was looked on as a mighty
good prospect with his dukes and
there was talk about getting him
ready to take on Jess Willard and
Frank Moran and the top-notchers
I don't remember exactly how I
came 10 get matched with him. I'M
less | was broke, which l usually
was.
Anyway I was matched with
him and when the bell gonged I
shot from my corner with both
hands pulled back ready to let EN-
go as soon as I saw an opening. I
wasn't much harder to hit in those
days than the left side of a dirigible
Jacl, Gets Decision
Before | got a chance to ley a
punch fly l was down on all fours
studying the white weaving of the
canvasand listening to the officia
statistician count. l got up Al
nine" and was knnocked right
back. l got up again, and once
| more was flattened.
'Johnny kept hitting me and
| kept going down and getting W
until the customers must have
imagined we were playing some new
sort of game. Tho papers the mex
day said | had been knocked dowr
I seven times in the first round. Bu
| | can rememberbeing down at leas
nine times myself"
Dempsey recalls that the mex
three rounds did not differ mucl
! from the first. Sudenberg was II
there swinging and Dempsey was il
| there falling.
Along about the fifth round Su
dengergs strength left him. H.
| had fought himself out tryingtt
keep Dempsey on the floor. Thel
Dempsey began TO get his seconc
wind, 10 say nothing OF sense o
| balance and a comparatively calm
perspective.
From the fifth on he tore into Su
denbcrg with the same primitiv,
avagerythat he brings to his pres
day fights and, while he was un
| aole to register a knockout or ever
saaure the balance in knockdowne
| he did get The decision.
Il took more punishment in tina