A large and stunning photographic panorama of the crowd assembled at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City New Jersey for the celebrated Jack Dempsey v
£1,500 - £2,000
A large and stunning photographic panorama of the crowd assembled at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City New Jersey for the celebrated Jack Dempsey v Georges Carpentier Heavyweight Title Fight 2nd July 1921, published by Charles F. Allen, titled in the image, laid down in a two section black wooden frame under glass, 249 by 48cm., 98 by 19in. The Dempsey-Carpentier encounter, deemed at the time ''the fight of the century,'' generated the first million dollar gate in boxing history. A crowd of 91,000 watched the match, whilst RCA arranged a live national radio broadcast. Carpentier got off to a fast start and reportedly even wobbled Dempsey with a hard right in the 2nd round. A reporter at ringside, however, counted twenty-five punches from Dempsey in a single thirty-one second exchange soon after he was supposedly hurt. Carpentier broke a thumb in that round, which realistically ended his chances. In the 3rd, the bigger, stronger Dempsey began to take charge and administered a brutal beating to Georges. The Frenchman was eventually stopped in the 4th round.