DEMPSEY-SHARKEY
A FOUL CLAUSED Tress Association—By 'lclcgraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, July 22. A dispute has been raging for the ■past twenty-four hours whether Dempsey fouled Sharkey just beiore lie delivered the knock-out left, hook to the jaw. An examination of the slowmotion pictures of the fight was viewed by exports from the Iwo opposing camps, one claiming that a imd was definitely indicated, the other maintaining the opposite. The chairman of the Athletic Commission declared that the knock-out must stand. Sharkey offers to donate his share of the purse to charity if given a return match, but Tex Rickards is satisfied that there was no foul. Ho announces that Dempsey will meet Tunney between September 15 and 22.
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Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 3
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117DEMPSEY-SHARKEY Evening Star, Issue 19617, 25 July 1927, Page 3
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