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JACK DEMPSEY IN THE UK

Great heavyweight visited but never fought here due to a lack of credible opposition
TRANSATLANTIC: [Left] Dempsey alights in Southampton, with Ted ‘Kid’ Lewis to his left, and
posing in London for a pic with a good old British bobby
Miles Templeton
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