FARGO — It must have gone through the minds of many in Fargo-Moorhead that July 4, 1923. What better way to celebrate America, they thought, than to cheer on a Minnesota guy — an underdog —hoping to ...

If you’re looking for the spot where Jack Dempsey defended the world heavyweight title against Tommy Gibbons in a fight that brought financial ruin upon an entire town on July 4, 1923, the directions ...

No thorough history of boxing in the United States could be offered without mention of what took place on that Independence Day in 1923, when Jack Dempsey defended his heavyweight title against St.

Then Sharkey turned his attention to Dempsey and others “Jack Dempsey was the best because he was a real fighter, and if he hit you in the shoulder he could dislocate it. “Ali was a real good boxer ...

IT was rumored at the ringside that the man who shot Arnold Rothstein had come to see what Paulino could do to Von Porat. A certain ruddy and corpulent gambler, wearing a tuxedo and protected on left ...

For a former hobo, a man who scraped a living as best he could during many of his formative years, this was a man who had had ...

Last week, in Fort Worth, Tex., the ponderous right hand of World’s Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey described a motion that sportsmen had begun to believe it might never describe again. After hours ...

Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Dempsey stars in this 15 chapter action serial, of which portions of reels 1, 2, and 4 survive. In the serial he plays the star fullback of his college's football team ...