page_title: September 1927
section_title: September 22, 1927 (Thursday)
hierarchical_section_title: September 1927 / September 22, 1927 (Thursday)
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Gene Tunney.
context_page_description: The following events occurred in September 1927:
context_section_description: Tunney v. Dempsey and "The Long Count":  Former heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey sought to regain the title that he had lost in 1926 to Gene Tunney.  The rematch took place at Chicago's Soldier Field before a crowd of 104,943 people, while another ninety million people listened to Graham McNamee's radio broadcast.  Shortly after 10:00 pm Chicago time, the fight began; fifty seconds into the seventh round, Dempsey briefly knocked Tunney unconscious with six consecutive punches and was within ten seconds of regaining his crown.  Dempsey made the mistake of not immediately following an order by referee Dave Barry to "Go to the farthest corner" away from Tunney, and Barry had to walk the challenger to the proper spot.  Timekeeper Paul Beeler had already reached five when Barry raced over and restarted the count at one.  Tunney regained consciousness as Beeler counted, and stood to his feet by the count of nine, after having been face down for 14, and possibly 18 seconds.  Tunney returned to action, finished the ten round fight, and won by unanimous decisions of the judges.  The gate set a record of $2,658,660 in sales, and Dempsey and Tunney split a prize of $1,540,445.
  Born:
  Tommy Lasorda, manager of baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers from 1976 to 1996 and winner of two World Series; in Norristown, Pennsylvania
  Kika de la Garza, U.S. Congressman for Texas from 1965 to 1997, in Mercedes, Texas (d. 2017)
caption: Tunney
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