No one heard his voice describing the world heavyweight title fight 100 years ago but radio enthusiast Andrew White changed the future of sport, radio and television
“Carpentier is out … Jack Dempsey is still the heavyweight champion of the world.”
It was Saturday 2 July 1921, a boiling summer afternoon in a field on the outskirts of Jersey City, and a raucous crowd of more than 80,000 had just witnessed what had been billed as the fight of the century.
The army of enthusiasts were rigging up loudspeakers in streets, schools, fire stations, even their own front yards.