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...title at stake was the New York State Athletic Commission version of the lightweight "world championship." The National Boxing Association, recognized by 37 states, also has a "world champion" lightweight, Sammy Angott, who fights once more before meeting Montgomery March...
...Fleet-fisted but flat-faced Beau Jack, illiterate 21-year-old Negro: the world's lightweight boxing championship; by a right uppercut to the chin of Tippy Larkin, No. 1 contender for the title recently abdicated (because of bad hands) by Champion Sammy Angott; in the third round of a scheduled 15-rounder; at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Protégé of Bobby Jones and 21 other members of the Augusta National Golf Club, where he used to work as shoeshine boy, Beau Jack got his crack at the title by knocking out Allie Stolz...
...curly-haired Allie Stolz and Harlem's kinky-haired Beau Jack, fighting it out in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for a fling at the world's lightweight title. The title had, as a matter of fact, been abandoned that very day by Champion Sammy Angott-supposedly because of a badly battered hand...
Stolz, a stylish young boxer, was rated the No. 1 challenger for Angott's crown. But the Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...Sugar") Robinson, Harlem's undefeated welterweight: a nontitle match against lightweight champion Sammy Angott; by unanimous decision of the officials at the end of ten rounds; after both had hit the canvas with a single thump in the eighth; giving Robinson his 33rd straight triumph in his professional career; .at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...