Jack Dempsey and The Color Line...

Do you mean to say that Dempsey beat the guy who dismantled Harry Wills??????????????

 

The Brooklyn Daily Eagle:
The ko came in the seventh round but it was a beaten Sharkey that went to his corner at the end of round six. He lay back and closed his eyes. He no longer tried to paralyse Dempsey with a piercing look. Something terrible and unseemly lit up Dempseys face before the seventh round. Sharkey came forward no longer up and coming, no longer with flickering ambition instead he was marching to be knocked out. Sharkey appeared gone his eyes looked like pale China blue marble. The fight was out of him. Nobody in this world could take the lambasting he had on his stomach. I saw a twist of agony while his eyes rolled upwards as he took that crushing right on the stomach. the next moment his face was thrust over to one side white, helpless despairing as consciousness fled. They counted him out and carried him to his corner. He sagged back to the ropes and tears rolled down his cheeks. He was sobbing. When Dempsey entered the ring he turned his back on the vicious stare that Sharkey relies upon. When Sullivan called them to center ring Sharkey stared murder and Dempsey stared manslaughter in return.

Dempsey..."I am glad the doctor says that he did not find any evidence of a low punch. I certainly tried to keep them up although I knew when he started to complain that I was hurting him to the body so of course I made that the target. The punches that stopped him were a right to the body and a left hook to the jaw but it was the body punch that did all the work. That shot I put him down with in the third should have kept him down. He surprised me when he got to his feet. He's tough"

Doctor William Walker physician to the boxing commission examined Sharkey in his dressing room as a result of Sharkeys claim of foul but said that he saw no evidence of a foul having been committed.

 

Pittsburg Republican July 23 1927 Headline....
"Dempsey punch fair movie film reveals"

 

An another interesting point is all the accounts of the fight say Shaarkey slipped at the bell ending round three. Dempseys states he knocked Sharkey down and was surprised when he got up. Looks to me he hits Sharkey with a solid left hook to the liver and Sharkey doubles over to the canvas.

 

Now They're Squabbling Over the Fight Films

New York (AP) -- Jack Dempsey's comeback Thursday developed one of the most hectic controversies in heavyweight ring history, with a bitter debate swirling around the question of whether the former champ fouled Jack Sharkey before knocking out the Boston sailor in the seventh round of their battle Thursday night.

The dispute raged among newspaper men, officials and fighters with as fierce intensity as the battle within the ring last night. Instead of being finished, the fight, it seemed, had just begun. After a day of heated post mortem examinations, in which slow motion pictures and a broadside of opinions were brought to bear, the issue was no nearer settlement than when yells of protest came from Sharkey's corner at the finish of the bout in the Yankee stadium.

The motion pictures, it has been felt, would be a final arbiter, but three showings before a group of experts left opinion as widely divided as it was at ringside. To a majority, perhaps, it seemed that Dempsey landed two or three dangerously low rights to the body just before connecting with the left hook to the jaw that toppled the former sailor. These wallops appeared to be low but not foul, in the opinion of Tex Rickard as well as of many other observers.

Nearly as many more, however, chief among them Johnny Buckley, Sharkey's manager, insisted that the pictures proved Sharkey had been fouled at least twice and that Dempsey should have been disqualified.

The Milwaukee Journal, July 23, 1927

 

Means nothing as no one is disputing low blows were thrown. The ref stated he warned Dempsey AND Sharkey twice for low blows. The question is whether the last three blows were low. The ref was adamant that these last blows were not low.

Read the accounts of the end of the fight the crowd let out an ovation as to the the suddenness of victory by Dempsey NOT disproval over low blows.

 

To the MAJORITY at ringside it appeared to be a fair blow. The crowd entertained no doubt as to the fairness of Dempseys victory. "
The Republican Journal.

Note the above..."THE CROWD ENTERTAINED NO DOUBT AS TO THE FAIRNESS OF DEMPSEYS VICTORY".

Let's see that again".........."THE CROWD ENTERTAINED NO DOUBT AS TO THE FAIRNESS OF DEMPSEYS VICTORY"

 

The ref who stated he saw the final punch stated adamantly that it was NOT LOW. Add to this you do not see Dempsey dip his shoulder or arm. The ref has final verdict over the decision that no foul was committed that ended the bout.

 

No he is NOT saying that. If you watch the film you will see that a right hand of DEMPSEYS hit Sharkey in the leg but that's way before the final three right hands. A different punch sequence. The ref is obviously not referring to the final three blows.

 

How dishonest.

I am posting newspaper accounts. Multiple that point to the same conclusion.
You say they don't exist or that there was no question that the majority felt Dempsey fouled Sharkey. MANY accounts of the ko tell a completely different tale.

You think the crowd was in an uproar over low blows.... UNTRUE. They gave viciousness of the KO and Dempsey a resounding ovation. I read this ovation shook the building.