Word: bantamweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Korea's bantamweight(123¼ lbs.) weightlifter Ho Yu In, who set a world mark of 285 lbs. for the two-hand clean and jerk...
...Keeny" (a corruption of the Spanish for "little one") Teran, was also and up & coming bantamweight (118 lbs.) boxer. As an amateur, he was beaten only once. As a professional, Keeny was hailed as a coming champion (16 wins, one draw) ; last year he won the boxing writers' "Fighter of the Year" award. Then, one night, his heroin-ravaged body failed to respond. Keeny took a savage beating from Hawaii's Tommy Umeda, a man he had beaten twice before...
...Salas, Shirai is the first fighter from his country ever to hold a world championship. The U.S., once the stronghold of boxing, now owns only half of the eight world titles. Others outside the U.S.: the welterweight (147 Ibs.) championship held by Cuba's Kid Gavilan, and the bantamweight (118 Ibs.) held by South Africa's Vic Toweel...
Hirata first came to the U.S. mainland in 1929 to attend the University of Michigan, where he was flyweight and bantamweight boxing champion and 118-lb. wrestling champion. After his graduation in 1933, he went to Princeton University for his master's degree in politics, then studied law for a year at the University of Chicago. In 1935 he joined an international law office in Tokyo and a year later transferred to the Nippon Electric Co., where he worked in the law and documents department...
...title fight was recognized in 47 states (New York excepted) by the National Boxing Association. *The champions: Heavyweight Ezzard Charles, Light-Heavyweight Maxim, Middleweight Robinson, Welterweight Bratton, Lightweight Ike Williams, Featherweight Sandy Saddler. South Africa's Vic Toweel, a white man, holds the bantamweight title, and Hawaii's Dada Marino the flyweight...