THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927 JACK DEMPSEY vs JACK SHARKE

Dempsey Beats Sharkey Huge Crowd Cheers Men in Big Battle

_ New York - Jack Dempsey defeated Jack Sharkey before 80,000 persons at the Yankee's ball park Thursday night. it was Dempsey's first bout since he lost the world's champion- ship to Gene Tunney last September.

BY THE UNITED PRESS _ New York - Skies as uncloud- ed as the mild greenish eyes of Tex Rickard curved over the Yankee Stadium when the gates were throw open late today to admit the vanguard of 80,000 fans to the heavyweight fight be- tween the two Jacks - Dempsey and Sharkey. _ The air was clear and pungent with the tang of freshly sawed timbers which stretched out over the soil usually sacred to the cleats of Babe Ruth. _ Downtown at Madison Square garden, Dempsey and Sharkey had weighed in and had been pronounced fit physically. _ Dempsey stepped on the scales first at 12:50 p.m. He weighed 194 1/2. At 1 p.m. Sharkey balanced the beam at 196. _ Dr. William H. Walker, physician for the boxing commission, found Dempsey not the perfect physical specimen he was for the Firpo fight because of a slightly increased blood pressure. _ Neither did Sharkey look as fit as when he weighed in for his Maloney fight, Dr. Walker opined. He pro- nounced both fighters, however, to be in excellent shape. _ Dempsey's chest measurements were 39 normal, 43 extended; Shar- key's 39 1/2 and 43 1/2. _ Dempsey's blood pressure was 135 systolic and 85 diastolic; Sharkey's 128 and 90. _ Dempsey was sullen, defiant and long suffering during the examina- tion and photographing; Sharkey was cocky and talkative and was al- most forcibly led away from admir- ers to seclusion. _ The fans' hearts were still with Dempsey as the hour for his testing drew near but their pocketbooks re- mained on Sharkey. _ Odds on Sharkey fluctuated around 7 to 5, with little Dempsey money in evidence on Wall St. or elsewhere. _ Rickard's chief ticket seller, Joe Boynton estimated the gate would reach $1,050,000, about $200,000 short of a complete sellout.

Jack Dempsey

Jack Sharkey

Dempsey's Estelle Under Doc's Care _ Los Angeles - Estelle Taylor, motion picture actress wife of Jack Dempsey, Thursday was under her physician's orders to remain in her rooms and not answer telephone calls. The physician said her nerv- ous condition wrought by her hus- band's heavyweight battle Thursday night was not serious but required rest and quite seclusion.

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