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...Tony Canzoneri: the right to meet Barney Ross in a return bout for the world's lightweight championship; by defeating Frankie Klick of San Francisco, by a technical knockout, in 9 rounds; in Brooklyn...
...almost every sport there is someone whose nickname is "Wild Bill." "Wild Bill" Cummings got his from his father who was a racetrack driver from 1907 to 1921. Young Cummings was born within earshot of the Indianapolis Speedway, learned to distinguish Barney Oldfield's car by its sound, promised his mother that some day he would win the 500-mile race. He gathered speed slowly, first as a Western Union messenger boy, later as a taxidriver. When he was 16, he began driving in motorcycle races, graduated to automobiles two years later. He finished fifth in the 500-mile...
Square Garden's outdoor bowl Welterweight Jimmy McLarnin entered the ring first, laced up his gloves. Small Barney Ross, who won the lightweight championship from Tony Canzoneri last year, ducked into his corner a moment later and the two men shook hands...
...clever, almost even fight, McLarnin trotted to his corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...
...defeated Edward H. Peterson, 6 and 5; George E. Enos defeated Fisher (Y), 3 and 2; McInerney (Y) defeated Allan G. Pattee, 7 and 6; Walker (Y) defeated Paul R. Wiley, 4 and 2; Richard G. Bull defeated Hewes (Y), 4 and 3; Eaton (Y) defeated John B. Barney, 2, and 1. Foursomes; Munson and Fisher defeated Peterson and Enos. 2 up: McInerney and Walker defeated Pattee and Wiley, 5 and 4; Hewes and Eaton defeated Bull and Barney...