A photograph of a wall-eyed youngster with protruding ears, a puckered mouth, and neither shirt nor collar on his thick wrinkled neck appeared on the front page of a famed daily last week under the caption "YOUTH SUPREME." The youth in question, one Jack Sharkey, had just demonstrated in a bloody bout in Brooklyn his supremacy against black Harry Wills, once known as "The Brown Panther," and long the Nemesis of Jack Dempsey. All through the fight Sharkey chopped and hacked at Wills, closed his eye, made his mouth bleed; all through...
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