But Jack Dempsey was the only champion who practiced ... and this was at a time when all the ranking heavyweights were ducking behind the color line and keeping Godfrey, known variously as the ...
The 1920s were the Golden Age of Sports. In boxing, nobody was more golden -- though not immediately -- than Jack Dempsey. Like Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bill Tilden and Bobby Jones, Dempsey was the ...