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iiy ALAN J. GOULD Associated Press Writer
America's golden II! 0' IP0l'lI came to I lll0C'-19'.-ll" cum” along Chicago's lake front on a balmy September evening in 1921.
That was the night of the re- return match for the world's heavyweight boxing champion- xlllp between the old mauler. William Harrison (Jack) Demp- sky, and the fighting marine. laillcs Joseph (Gene) Tunney-
The battle drew an all - time -ecord of 32.658.0W in SI” ,7? :('i;tiS and ended in a 10 - round .-iv my on points for Tunney. the iilt-holder. as he rallied from a 'long count" knockdown in the seventh round. .
It may have been suspected at he time, but it has taken history and tile perspective of 30 years in record that It was not only one of he most controversial prise lights of all time. but the centre- piece of all the fabulous sports sit-ills of that era V nniiscitse - the "
Those were the glamorous perform Ruth and Bobby Jones. o , Wills and Big Bill Tildcn. of Pziaivo Nurmi and Red Grange. .-llmve all. in the dazzling wo"ld of sports. it was the peak period of pugilistlc promotion under the guiding genius of that gifted gambler of the Klondike-George Lcvtls tTexi Rickard.
Prize fighting had become the
ef heavyweight
riiiiirv vssiis soc
say. As sure as there are stars in the heavens. I'll lick him.” Tea Ilhetl that Gene would be the nest man to get a crack at Jack's title.
is a steady downpour of rain an the light of Sept. 23. 198. Tunney - a 1-to-t . enthused and outfought Dempsey decisively is to sounds to de- throae the man who had been king for seven
years.
The buildup for a return match was soon under way. notwith- standing some talk that P , , planned to retire. it was inevi- table that he try to s.age a come- back and regain the hesvywelghg crown - something no fighter had ever done before.
For Tunney. there was the equally great urge to prove that the Philadelphia victory was no fluke - and to cash in on his newly - won title while the boom times were booming. Gene did so by demanding 8l.000.(l)0 to defend the crown. Actually he settled for a nextdoor figure. 8990.000. while Dempsey signed for 8450.- M0 - all-time records for the purposes of champion and chal- lenger.
DEMPSEY THE AGGRESSOR
For six rounds. Tunney held. the upper hand. As previously. he” relied on his speed. boxing skill. and eounterpunchlng. Dempsey. tanned and alert. who the aggres- sor. He was not match for Tun-
ney at close quarters. though, and was consistently out- pointed.
Then came the seventh. Demp- sey crowded Tunney against the ropes. caught the champion sud-
t Dempsey-Tunney Fight Xighliglii Of Oreai. Era
on his bicycle and back-pedalletl" to keep out of the plunging Demp- aey's reach. it was the smart thing to do. Any o.her tactic could have been disastrous.
Dempsey had shot his belt. Tunney came out for the eighth round with renewed confidence. he had absorbed Desspsey's heaviest punches. Sensing that the former champion was weak- ening, Tunney moved to the at- tack and dropped Dempsey with a right to the jaw.
Ga.hering steam, he outboxed
A h.-.1. e (-5 " through the last two rounds and clearly was the winner on points when the last bell sounded. Dempsey was bleeding from a had cut over his left eye and so battered he did not seem to re- alise when the fight was over. i
Did the ”long count" save Tun- ney's tl.le and prevent Dempsey from becoming the first fighter to regain the heavyweight crown? Since no one can say for sure. that's one of the flstic debates that can - and probably will - go on forever.
From where I sat at the ring- side. an arm's length from where Tunney went down under Demp- sey's savage attack. s ev er al things may be said with ' some conviction. though not with final- ity.
COULD HAVE RISEN
First. there is no doubt in my mind that Tunney could have got up alter the count oi ”nine',. i.e.. without the bcmfit of the five- aeconds bonus. There is no doubt, either. that he was badly hurt and that. superb as was his phys- ical condition and the thorough-
denly a bit off-guard. and crashed a right to the Jaw. Unable toj manoeuvre. T u n n e y tried to' clinch. but Dempsey was quickl to seize his advantage. lie landed; a hard left hook. then a short! right that blasted Tunncy's chin.l As the champion's legs buckled
mass with which he had trained himself for just such emergen- cles. he would have been a muI'h readier target for Dempseys re- newed efforts to deliver th e crushcr.
in my judgment, the chances were better than 50-50 that Jack would have done so - thoulh ll!
RAFAEL elle. trtght of Ottawa. new com- mander of the Canadian Army contingent of the UN Emerg-l
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mander Col.
ew COMMANDER IN EGYPT
gypt,-Col. W. Cap-lency Force. and retiring com- sdlsns are located. Col. Cap- H.E. Brown of elle was formerly dircctur of en" Brandon. Man.. look over a map gineering development at Arniyl of Rafah camp where the Can- headquarters.
By THE CANADIAN PRESS Despite forest fire prevention
campaigns, liuiiiaii carelessness. 5 after a year s respite. again heads the HS! of forest fire
causes in 1957. forestry officials
ODY-
Llghtning which led the list last year, causing more than half of the fires, this year accounted for between N and 20 per cent. A Canadian Press survey showed that up to the end of August more than 1,200 forest fires were re- ported in Canada compared with approximately 5.000 in the cor- responding period in 1936.
The figures fill not inrlutie Que- bec Wlleff: .slitliSlll'5 are not available until late October. A campaign to prevent forest fires was conducted in the ormince this year.
LESS ACRE.lGl-I BERN!-ID
"oniparativc reports ale avail- able so fan from only fne prov- inces. They inuicate less acreage burned than in 1956. One factor may have been new firefighting methods.
In Ontario, lit) - uallon tanks fitted to the sidcs nf aircrall ale
Alberta
"Dry. uarm ur-aihr-r is urg- y ently required to reduce the inois.l (CF from National Defence) of harvest.
Poultry Study Brings Profits
OTTAWA-Over the past 50 yggrg the poultry industry has developed from the small ';lrni flock, hatched and broodcti by mother hcn. to the large coni- mercial flock as we know it too day. This rapid development would have been impossible with- out continiious poultry research. says T.M. Maclntyrc. Senior Nutritionist. Expcrinicntal Farm Nappan N.S.
eggs per hen are now common. This increased produc ion ac-
has led to much greater feed efficiency for egg production.
Many flocks now require only OTTAWA
aboul 4.5 pounds of feed
doze eggs whereas only a short. Ind Warm. dry "rather is urg- df3('i.' ago 7 pounds
wen required.
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progress but there will ai- be a need for research; mental research that del- ino the meaning of things. ipplicd research that uses
great ways fun" res and the
ruiiipsinied by Improved ratio sl
per curbed Prairie crop horiesting ..1 feedlently needed, the bureau of sla-
Wuyu-y industry ha, made I of a serious of telegraphic crop re. .
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nowledge available to de- reju gala. Only half the
vesting throughout the ftiariiinies. Quebec's llarvcsliiltz is alnitist It-miiple-tcti and large quantities yhave been stored.
Rain Delays Prairie Harvest
fCPl Rain has
Sydney Worker Fatally lniured
PW” svnxrzv WP: .. Cuti.striicti0n widespread Sham,” ha”, kept worker John A Illachcll, 80, of machines out of fields and re-l53'd""y' mm . . , durcd the quamy of wt m.ain7Thui'sday of iiiliirics siiftcred. during the 13,; mo weeksy the 1,". when struck by a car Tiicstlay. gram A steel plant pensioner. Sir. Mac
tlsllrs said Wednesday in the Iris.
pilot. matter of seconds and can be emptied at any desired spot.
per cent of Manitoba's fires were caused by Indians who did not Ekflliglllbll camp fires.
filled with water by a scoop de- fighters were able to get to the & scene before hand. Human carelessness was held accountable for 86 per cent of tlic fires
ture content of the unthreshedgdry .grain and to facilitate completion fires but recent rains ended the . hazard. The burned area cav- Raln has hanipcred grain liar- i Q,-ed 15,590 acres,
more than 12,000 acres. 9.000 of hich were destroyed in a fire ,which started June 10 and raged for l3 days in Hams county.
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lBrlillx'Wl('l( reduced the number of fircs to 232 with a burned-out area of 3.320 acres. Last year 106 fircs burned l.l90 acres. FEWER IN WEST
in hospital here were generally fewer than last your 75.000 at-rcs-far short of the 346 fires which ravaged 551.000 acres
vice as the plane taxis along a, lake's surface. Controlled by the ewan forest fires down to 13 compared with the last year. total of 37.000 acres were burned compared with 57 713 acres last year.
the tanks are filled in s
Publicity was credited with
helping officials got to the root of the problem. in northern Manit- oba. for example. officials this year made up large red crests with blue lettering - ”honorary fire guardian"-which have been disrihuted to selected indisns on various reservations.
Forestry officials say that 33
Of the -i.2l8 forest fires re-
corded. Ontario had 1,570 fires while British Columbia reportedi l,36l.
fltflciais said the reason he-
hiiiu the inc:'ea.se in Ontario for- ma est fircselast only 876-was weather conditions. But the 1cre- age of timberland burned was cut to 45.000 acres this year from - 2.788 acres in 1956.
Ql'ff'K ACTION
year there were the difference in
Officials said this year fire-
fires got out of
Ncvitniiiidlands exceptionally summer accounted for 70
in Nova Scntia 492 fires burned
Favorable weather in New
in Western Canada forest fires
Manitoba's 20 fires burned
t lleep B ltray.”
Q The Guardian Page 7 Monday. Sept. 23. 19g
Human CarelessnessCl'iiet Cause Of Forest F ire Loss
A good rainfall kept ssskatcli A
Alberta's3 635 fires burned a
14.500 acres as against Q5 fires that acres in 1956. Again human ears- leasness was blamed for It per cent of the fires.
whipped - through Ut.&
British Columbia officials say
the cost of firefighting was so duced to one-third this year. Last year they spent 3440.915 in putt- lng out 2.1592 fires. This year it cost 3138294 to extinguish l.36i fires.
Most popular slogan in B C. is .C. green-use your ash-
5250 Decoy Ducks
Bob Paquette of Ila Perrot holds top inter- national honors for carving decoy ducks and gets as high as 5250 each. Some of his work is shown in full color in The Standard this week. Get The Standard-on sale now, complete with magazine, 12-page novel and 20 pages of comics. Only ten cents
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and he started to fall. Dempsey! kept punching at his crumplingl target. l
nu-st faslonable of all profes-
U t'l 1900 l'ttI it t" : r . nonat sports. With Dempsey as I” I E 8 an W H5
given to the economic ch.-irac-l
velt - new
ON SALE NOW
so saying now. as I did at years
d I a new nutrition practices. lago. i do not un eresima
lisease controls and new
last year. As was the case last year 75 per cent of the fires oc-
crop in, been nan-es"-d m Sag. Neil was uorking wi.h the Webs- katchewan; 45 per cent in Man- ier Construction Co. of Triiro as
his star attraction, Rickard pro- molcd five top heavyweight fights that drew in excess of 88,000,000. 'min 1921 to 1927. and attracted the patronage of people willing to nay as high as tloo each to: ' ringside seats.
an atmosphere featuring nothing but the biggest and the best. with money no object, the wmiirt Dempsey - Tunney fight was a "natural."
Tunut-y. a product of the side- lAIll(S of New York ,fought chiefly in light heavyweight ranks until he cuiiulit Richard's eye as a po- it-iiiinl t-liallengei for Dempsey.
(til llllll July day in 1921 when ”""lIi.m knockes out Georges 1.-'lFl7l'lltH'r of France in the first heaiyueight "battle of the cen- tury" st Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jrrscy City. Gene Tunney was an iucnnsplctsous figure in 1! pro- hmmary bout - in which be htocd Soldier Jones.
"I'LL LICK IIM"
5! 1925, Tunney not only had lsined weight and stature. he was mature and confident. To Rickard he said: "Get me Demp-
It looked like the end. Tun- ney's eyes were closed as he dropped to the canvas. Instinc- ilvaly he reached out and grasped the second strand of rope to keep himself from falling flat.
Pandemonium broke loose as 105,000 fans leaped to their feet. yelling for the. "kill". it had the
old primeval effect on Dc-mpsey,l
too, for he hovered nienaclngly over his fallen opponent and at first ignored referee Dave Bar- ry's insistence that he go to the farthest neutral corner.
Five fateful seconds elapsed be- fore Dempsey obeyed the ref- eree's instructions. based on a rule that had been spelled out for both fighters in advance. Thus when Barry began the count at "one" it was actually "six" from the moment of the knockdown. When Tunney arose at the count of "nine." taking fun advantage of the chance to recover from the punishment. he had the bene- fit of the "long count" of it see- ends.
in ring parlance, Tunney "got
lDenipseytaced a psychological l handicap when he found his heav- .lest artillery had not kept Gene down.
in any case. there can be no
lallbi for Dempsey - and to his icredit as a fighter and sports- l man he offered none. even in the tmldst of his greatest disappoint- ment. lle knew tire rule requir- ing either fighter. in scorinl s knockdown. in go at once to a neutral corner.
The central figures of the drama of Soldier Field lingered
lhnly briefly on the fistic scene.
lTunney defended his title once
lmore. knocking out Tom llccncy in 1928. then retired - the only world's heavy-weight king up to then to quit undefeated and make it stick. Dempsey retired from the ring, too.
Jack. now 62. is a successful Broadway restaurateur. Gene. 59. is a succesfui businessman. too. Age-"upper middle." that is- has dealt kindly with these two titans of the ring and of the
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teristlcs of the many breeds and varieties of chickens. Abou' 1910 the trapncst was invcntcc. and the progeny test was introduced as a means of improving egg production. im- proved incubation and broodingy followed and by 1920 practical-l ly all farm hatching had ceased. YEAR ROUND i About the same period vita-1 mins were discovered and this. made it possible to raise chick-I ens the year round thus elimina- ting seasonal variations in egg. and meat production. This was; followed by the development of specialized meat and egg strains of birds. Today's extensive broil-l er industry is based on highly, efficient meat strains. Feed con. version has increased from a-. .bout 4 pounds of feed per pound. of gain to less than 2.5 pounds: 'of feed per pound of stain and the end is not yet in sight. j The development of egg lay-y in strains has led to greatly,
increased production so that
"golden era."
yearly flock averages of 250
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