The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-09-29

Gene Tunney successfully defended
the worlds heavyweight champion
ship Thursday night against the SEN
sational challenge from Jack Demp-
sey when he carried off the Judges
decision in a ten round match before
record breaking crowd of 10000
that paid s2,800,00 to see the slash
ing battle.
Tunney came back to win the fight,
with a brilliant rally in the last two
rounds after being knocked down for
a count of nine in the seventh round
by smashing right to the jaw, fol-
lowed by a left.
Dempsey seemed to have the title
in his grasp at this stage as the slash
ing attack had Tunney in retreat, but
the champion, backing to the defen-
sive, weathered the storm until his
head had cleared. There was much
dispute about the ringside over the
length of the count on Tunney's
Touchdown, some claiming it was slow
starting and that the champion ac-
tually was on the floor as long as y
seconds. Outside the seventh round
and a few briefly sustained drives at
other stages, Dempsey was outboXed
and outfought by Tunney, who seem
ed much the stronger and faster.
The challenger was a target for
Tunney's sharp right crosses. He
was staggered in the fourth round
and in the tenth was on the verge of
going down under a heavy baTage.
The old mauler kept plunging in but
he was too tired to last, both eyes
bleeding profusely from cuts and his
resources almost expended.
Gene Tunney, the man of destiny,
is still heavyweight champion of the
world, but his crown was perilously |
close to being toppled from his head
by the gallant thrust of the old war
rior, Jack Dempsey, in the greatest
boxing spectacle of all time.
Tunney's hand was raised in vic
tory at the end of a slashing, mash
ing battle, but only because he had
the courage and fighting power for a
sensational finish after being knock
ed down for a count of nine in the
seventh round by Dempsey's vicious
two-handed attack.
Safely past that crisis Tunney
finished the last three rounds like a
champion, regained confidence, taking
the aggressive and beating Dempsey
into defeat with a two-handed, we'll
timed attack to the head. With his
title in danger, Tunney had the stuff |
to put on victorious rally. At the
close of the final round, Dempsey, |
both eyes cut and badly bleeding, was
groggy and reeling, "out on his feet"
So battered was the old champion, his
last chance expended, that he did not
seem to know the battle was over and
had to be led to his corner.
In setting that could scarcely
have been more picturesque had it
been painted by masters brush,
crowd of 100000 spectators jammed
in the blackness of night into Soldiers
Field for the heavyweight champion
ship fight.
An acre or more of human beings
paid the staggering sum of $780,
300, the richest gate in prize fight
history, to see and form the back
ground of the great spectacle. The
crowd was a record breaker, eclipsing
the previous high mark of 100000
with gate receipts of nearly $2,000,-
900 at the battle of Philadelphia
year ago when Dempsey, in a pour
ing rain, lost his title to Tunney.
The Tremendous crowd, attracted
to the biggest arena in America, gath
cred to witness the most talked-of
battle in all the history of glove
fighting and for the greatest purse
ever offered, $1,000,0OO to the cham
pion and $450,000 to the challenger.
1t was strictly a Dempsey crowd, four
out of five pulling for the popular
''Manassa Mauler" to regain his lost
honors.
The crowd, gathering slowly and