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As printed: TUNNEY WINS TITLE POUNDING DEMPSEY FULL TEN ROUNDS
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, met Gene Tunney at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Stadium before some 132,000 people and a gate of nearly $2,000,000, and lost the decision after ten rounds fought in a steady downpour — the first time in nearly forty years of glove fighting that the heavyweight crown has changed hands without a knockout. Promoter Tex Rickard says Dempsey has already asked for a return match, which might be put on next spring.
As printed: Women and Children Taken from Hollywood and All Males Are Drafted to Clear Away Tangled Wreckage.
ContextThe hurricane that struck Miami and Miami Beach late on Friday, September 17, and crossed the peninsula has left surveys from West Palm Beach to Miami and around Lake Okeechobee showing 849 known dead, 1,100 injured and property losses near $165,000,000. Thousands are baring their arms for anti-typhoid serum, women and children are being taken out of Hollywood while every man is conscripted to clear wreckage, and some 200 more bodies are expected to be found at Moorehaven, where the lake burst its dikes.
As printed: MAL S. DAUGHERTY TESTIFIES BROTHER BURNED RECORDS
ContextHarry M. Daugherty, attorney general under President Harding, and Thomas W. Miller, the former alien property custodian, are on trial in New York over the release of some $7,000,000 in seized enemy property, for which the government says a $441,000 "commission" was paid. Today Mal S. Daugherty, the defendant's brother and president of the Midland National Bank at Washington Court House, Ohio, testified that the subpoenaed ledger sheets are gone because his brother burned them.
The government picks up its bond trail again in New York, having pledged to trace more than $150,000 to Daugherty's accounts, while Washington and Chicago play off today's rained-out game as a double-header.
