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Another Phenom?

Posted: 24 Nov 2007, 15:11
by Cap
a squib which ran near the bottom of the sports page in the Calgary Herald in May of 1916 under the title "Another Phenom":

Chicago, May 18 - Barney Lichtenstein, manager of Ad Wolgast, announced yesterday from Salt Lake City, Utah, that he has discovered a new heavyweight phenom named Jack Dempsey. Barney insists that his new hope is almost as fast as his namesake who startled the middleweight world a few years back. He is only 20 years old, weighs 175 pounds and stands over six feet in his stockings.

Geez. Wonder if he ever amounted to anything? :)

Cap

Re: Another Phenom?

Posted: 11 Dec 2007, 08:11
by p4p1
Cap wrote:a squib which ran near the bottom of the sports page in the Calgary Herald in May of 1916 under the title "Another Phenom":

Chicago, May 18 - Barney Lichtenstein, manager of Ad Wolgast, announced yesterday from Salt Lake City, Utah, that he has discovered a new heavyweight phenom named Jack Dempsey. Barney insists that his new hope is almost as fast as his namesake who startled the middleweight world a few years back. He is only 20 years old, weighs 175 pounds and stands over six feet in his stockings.

Geez. Wonder if he ever amounted to anything? :)

Cap
nah i dont think he ever did he wasnt strong enough or fast enough hahahahaha jj :D