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Report on the 1921 Fight Between Jack Dempsey and George Carpentier [excerpt]

 
by H. L. Mencken
read by James Wright

By the third round, the gallant frog was a mass of bruises from McBurney's point to the bulge of the pental escarpment. And yet today the opposing theory is held by members of the fourth estate throughout these states, from the right reverend Warren Gamaliel Harding, seated on his alabaster throne, to the lonely socialist in Lebenworth and Marxists fleeing from the Pollack's eye, to the meanest Slovak sweating in the bowels of the Earth.






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New York City
March 30, 1977
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