Here are relevant excerpts from an interesting article from the New York Times November 21, 1923 off an AP report from Buenos Aires-----...
What exactly about Auerbach's story is hard to believe? That Dempsey wasn't necessarily starving all the time time prior to 1918? Auerbach did...
thank you. I couldn't make that out.
I typed up what I judge the relevant excerpts. The full article is in the New York Times archive, online. Be interested in your feedback. I...
The article in question is from the New York Times, July 7, 1919, on page 21 DEMPSEY STARTS CAREER AS CHAMPION BY REPAYING MONEY ADVANCED TO HIM...
Your argument is with the newspaper report. I don't think the loan was necessarily in 1915 or the sum paid back was for certainly for one loan...
I don't know that all the loan, or even any of the loan, was in 1915. It could have been money here and there over the years. Hard to say what...
Yes, but it would have been a great investment. Dempsey got $300,000 in 1921 dollars for the Carpentier fight only two years later. What would...
I see Frazier winning easily, most likely simply pounding Jeffries into a TKO. My take is that the skill level had improved enormously over the...
Raises the issue of at what point was he one step from a hobo? Was he really that bad off all the time?
Thanks for the heads up. It won't apply to the amount Dempsey paid back, but it is full of interesting information.
Except the New York Times article is from July 7, 1919, so the figure is in the dollar value of that day. But I repeat. Dempsey had been a top...
The $6,126 is in 1919 dollars. As I said in the other post, this was paid on July 7, 1919, after Dempsey became champion. w/o knowing more, we...
I am going to do more research on this article in the New York Times. One thing, though. This was paid on July 7, 1919. Much of this money...
A reasonable point. This does raise all kinds of questions. But the gate of $5000 for the Flynn fight might point to Dempsey being a better draw...
