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Pete Reilly is a natural-born innovator. He developed boxing champions Jack Delaney and Bat Battalino, became famed as the originator of the hot foot. Last week, with the atmosphere at many a ringside foul with monkey business (investigations were under way in California, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia), silver-haired Pete brought his fresh air with...
...Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...
Since Hartford's battered Bat Battalino abdicated his title in 1932, there has been no undisputed world's featherweight (126 Ib.) champion. Last week Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has had a hand in settling the championship of practically every other division of boxing, inaugurated his tenure of the boxing rights at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden by matching the two ranking featherweight contenders in an effort to produce one acknowledged champion...
...Frankie Petrolle, welterweight of Schenectady, N. Y., young brother of famed Billy ("Fargo Express''): a ten-round fight against onetime Featherweight Champion Christopher ("Bat") Battalino, whom Billy Petrolle has thrashed in two bloody fights this year (TIME, April 4; May 30); at Long Island City...
...Tommy Paul, Buffalo boxer: the world's professional featherweight championship by beating Johnny Pena of Manhattan in the National Boxing Association's contest for Battalino's outgrown title; in Detroit...