Word: battalino
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After eleven rounds of it, beetle-browed little Christopher (."Bat") Battalino, who had insisted on twelve rounds because he thought he had the edge for stamina, gathered himself for a last effort to make the kill. He sprang across the ring. But wise old Billy Petrolic, whose nickname "Fargo Express" refers to a far day when he handled freight in North Dakota, measured him as he came. Petrolle was tired. He looked discouraged, too. and his knees had sagged during several of Battalino's crazy assaults. But his straight left and lethally fast right were still accurate. He measured...
Petrolle wrapped himself in the Indian blanket which he wears instead of a bathrobe and said: "He's the gamest guy I ever fought." Battalino, knocked out for the first time in his career in a fight which observers compared to the greatest in lightweight history, was comforted by being matched with Tony Canzoneri for the lightweight championship...
...Christopher ("Bat") Battalino: a Chicago fight in which he risked his world's featherweight championship against Earl Mastro; by a decision, after ten rounds. C. Top Flight, dark brown two-year-old filly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and ridden by Jockey "Sonny" Workman: the Pimlico Futurity, her seventh race this season; raising the total of her cash winnings to $219,000, more than any other mare or any two-year-old has ever won before, more than any other race horse has won this year...
With a rubber bandage around one knee, flat-nosed, beetle-browed Battling Battalino of Hartford, Conn., featherweight champion of the world, advanced crouching in Madison Square Garden toward Kid Chocolate (Eligio Sardinias), flashy Cuban Negro. With an eye for an evening's entertainment and the support of the Italian vote at the next election. Governor John Trumbull of Connecticut was at the ringside rooting for Battalino and so was Mayor Walter Batterson of Hartford. Wild and scared in the first round, feeling the hostility of the crowd which had called him "cheese champion" because he kept his title safe...
...Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...