Dempsey Should Have Won, Opines Expert
TUN NET WAS KNOCKED-OL'T.
(Received Friday, 9 p.m.)
NEW YORK. Sept. 22
Dempsey virtually claimed the referee’s decision was unfair in a statement after the fight. Ho said: “I heat Tunney to-night and I will beat him ag-ain. any time he wants to got into the same ring with me. I am not ready to retire by a long shot, not before I have had another crack at I know down in my soul that I knocked Tunney out to-night, and what’s more chased him all around the ring and should have won on points at least. ' The “ New York Times’ ” fight expert says: “His deliberate refusal to observe the boxing rules of the Illinois State Athletic Commission, or his ignorance of the rule, or both cost Dempsey his chance to regain the championship. Tunney should have lost the contest. He should have been knocked-ou’t, and was in fact, in the seventh round.
“That this result does not go into the record book is due to the failure of Dempsey to move into a neutral corned when Tunney was floored.”
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 September 1927, Page 6
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