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JACK DEMPSEY HAND WRAPS
Following Jack Dempsey's defeat of Jess Willard for the Heavyweight Championship of the World in 1919, a charge arose that Dempsey used "loaded gloves" in the fight. It was speculated that Dempsey had soaked the gloves in plaster of paris or another hardening substance to result in Willard being hit with what would feel like a rock. None of the charges were substantiated or proven. Jack Robinson, who apparently was involved with Dempsey at the fight, sent the original bandage handwraps to Jack Dempsey by registered mail with a letter explaining that he had possessed the wraps since the fight and had turned down a three hundred dollar offer for them. He enclosed the wraps and requested that Dempsey send him an autographed photo. Mr. Robinson further states, These bandages have never been washed, and nothing removed from them accept (sic) pieces of bandage tape, and they never contained any trace of plaster of paris or any loaded substance. The letter is on the stationary of the Methodist weekly, "The Family Affair" of which Mr. Robinson was both the editor and publisher. The lot also includes a letter of authenticity from Mrs. Jack Dempsey. (3)
Following Jack Dempsey's defeat of Jess Willard for the Heavyweight Championship of the World in 1919, a charge arose that Dempsey used "loaded gloves" in the fight. It was speculated that Dempsey had soaked the gloves in plaster of paris or another hardening substance to result in Willard being hit with what would feel like a rock. None of the charges were substantiated or proven. Jack Robinson, who apparently was involved with Dempsey at the fight, sent the original bandage handwraps to Jack Dempsey by registered mail with a letter explaining that he had possessed the wraps since the fight and had turned down a three hundred dollar offer for them. He enclosed the wraps and requested that Dempsey send him an autographed photo. Mr. Robinson further states, These bandages have never been washed, and nothing removed from them accept (sic) pieces of bandage tape, and they never contained any trace of plaster of paris or any loaded substance. The letter is on the stationary of the Methodist weekly, "The Family Affair" of which Mr. Robinson was both the editor and publisher. The lot also includes a letter of authenticity from Mrs. Jack Dempsey. (3)