You'll find, James, that a lot of the site's devotees are QUITE knowledgeable when it comes to "running down" these types of leads.
Posts from The Tennesseean in thread „Jess Willard“
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Yes...keep all of the info coming!
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Well...boxing was/is/probably always will be a very fertile sport for graft, fixed fights, and extreme exploitation of the main participants.
There has long been a feeling surrounding this "fight" that Dempsey was (at the least) allowed to take a lot of unusual liberties...
Boxing was a crooked business, even back then, so...draw your own conclusions.