13 days of original coverage, September 1, 1926 to September 25, 1926, one clipping a day from the papers of 1926. Newest last, the way readers lived it.
As printed: DEMPSEY ENJOYING ONE-DAY VACATION
ContextJack Dempsey, champion since 1919, defends the heavyweight title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on September 23 and is training at Atlantic City. Today he took a day off — with a black eye none of his eight sparring partners will own up to.
As printed: DEMPSEY SAVAGE IN HIS WORKOUTS
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, defends his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on September 23 and is training at Atlantic City. He arrived at yesterday's workout to find a dozen show girls in bathing suits dancing on his platform to a jazz band — and took it out on his sparring partners.
As printed: TOWNS ARE SOLD ON GENE TUNNEY
ContextGene Tunney, the ex-Marine challenger, meets champion Jack Dempsey in Philadelphia on September 23 and is training at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Three days in town and the place is fight-mad and solidly for him — though Tunney insists he learned to fight in Greenwich Village and only learned to box in the Marines.
As printed: Tunney Told How to Beat Dempsey
ContextJack Dempsey has held the heavyweight championship since 1919 and meets challenger Gene Tunney later this month; Tunney is in camp at Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. The mail is bringing him advice, including a diagrammed 'circular punch' warranted to annihilate the champion.
As printed: RICKARD PREPARED TO FIGHT ACTION
ContextJack Dempsey has held the heavyweight title since 1919 and has not defended it in three years; he is matched with Gene Tunney at Philadelphia on September 23, promoted by Tex Rickard. The Chicago Coliseum Club, claiming a prior contract on a Dempsey fight, has obtained an injunction from an Indiana court to stop the bout.
As printed: DEMPSEY STARTING FINAL GRIND TODAY
ContextJack Dempsey has held the heavyweight title since 1919 and has not defended it in three years; he meets Gene Tunney at Philadelphia on September 23 in a bout promoted by Tex Rickard. At Atlantic City today the gates closed to the public for the champion's final stretch of work, amid rumors of a new punch and reports from the coast that his health is none too good — while Tunney, writing from his own camp, recalls boxing on the undercard of Dempsey–Carpentier five years ago.
As printed: MORE LEGAL VERBIAGE
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, is due to defend his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Thursday night. His former manager Jack Kearns, with whom he split acrimoniously, has now sued in New Jersey for an accounting of every dollar Dempsey earned under their three-year contract, and a vice chancellor has put the champion's property in a temporary receiver's hands days before the bout.
As printed: LEGAL DIFFUCULTIES HAVE ENRAGED JACK
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, defends his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Thursday and is finishing his work at Atlantic City. His former manager Jack Kearns has sued for an accounting of the champion's earnings, and Dempsey's lawyers are due before the New Jersey vice chancellor tomorrow.
As printed: WALL STREET BETS 13 TO 5 ON DEMPSEY
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, defends his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia on Thursday night. The money is heavily on the champion, and one bettor has put up $1,500 against $6,000 that Tunney will not answer the bell for the third round.
As printed: PHILADELPHIA IS CROWDED AS FIGHT NEARS
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, defends his title against Gene Tunney in Philadelphia tomorrow night, and the city is filling with one of the largest crowds ever gathered for a sporting event. Rival squads of lawyers are still busy: Dempsey's former manager Jack Kearns and a Chicago promoter claiming a prior contract have both gone to court.
As printed: 132,000 EXPECTED AT FIGHT TONIGHT; COURT BARS LIFTED
ContextJack Dempsey, heavyweight champion since 1919, defends his title against Gene Tunney at Philadelphia's Sesquicentennial Stadium tonight, both injunction suits brought by the Chicago promoter B. C. Clements having been dismissed. Three railroads report 80,000 arrivals already, and showers gave way to sun in the afternoon.
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: New Champion Gets Great Welcome on His Arrival Home
ContextGene Tunney took the heavyweight title from Jack Dempsey in ten rounds at Philadelphia on Thursday night. He reached Pennsylvania Station at noon today to a crowd that tore his clothes and swarmed his car before he could get away to the City Hall reception.