The Archive · 1927

DEMPSEY-SHARKEY FIGHT)

Foul Blow Alleged by Judge Contradicted

New York, July 22.

Mx, Matheson, one of the two judges of the fight between Sharkey and Dempsey, will report to the Boxing Com that Sharkey was hit below the belt and that therefore Dempsey should have been disqualified.

The referee, Mr. O'Sullivan, states that the blow was fairly delivered, though he admits that] Sharkey was hit several times pre-Viously Below the belt, but. the blows were not deliberately deliver-and were not injurious, Later.

The oficial slow motion. pictures of the fight, in the portion showing the action in the seventh—round, reveal that the disputed blow was apparently quite fair.

Sharkey Injured:

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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