JACK DEMPSEY - INSCRIBED PICTURE POSTCARD SIGNED - HFSID 155196
Price: $300.00
JACK DEMPSEY
Inscribed picture postcard by Jack Dempsey.
Postcard Photograph inscribed and signed: "To Rev. S.H. Lloyd/Lots of Luck
Pal/Jack Dempsey". Color, 5½x3½. Illustration by James Montgomery Flagg of
the Dempsey-Willard Fight on July 4, 1919. Billed as the "Manassa Mauler" and
the "toughest man ever to come out of the West," the 6-foot, 190-pound
Dempsey met the 6-foot-6, 250-pound heavyweight champion Jess Willard on July 4,
1919, at Toledo, OH. Dempsey won on a 3rd-round knockout. During the next seven
years, Dempsey defended his title only six times but made a lot of money in the
process. His fight against Frenchman Georges Carpentier on July 2, 1921
produced boxing's first $1 million gate. He lost his title to Gene Tunney on
September 23, 1926 in a ten-round decision after which he retired. Named the greatest fighter of the half-century in a
1950 Associated Press poll, he won 60 professional fights, 49 by knockout; lost
7, 1 by knockout; and fought 7 draws, 5 no-decisions, and 1 no-contest. Fine
condition.
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