Dempsey and Baer
in The Ring

The Ring
Vol. 14, no. 4, May 1935
Gift of Australian Institute of Sport, 1997

Max Baer was the reigning heavyweight champion when this May 1935 issue of The Ring was published. He would lose to James Braddock the next month, having held the title exactly one year. Although immensely popular, many felt that he did not live up to his abilities as a fighter. That cannot be said of Jack Dempsey, the "Manassa Mauler," considered by many one of the great boxers of all time and a sports icon of the1920s. The Library's holdings of The Ring are incomplete and many volumes are brittle. This issue and several dozen others, all from the 1930s, were donated by the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra in an effort to aid the Library's ongoing effort to complete its holdings.