Word: berlenbach
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...shortage of good young fighters was certainly acute. In gyms and fight clubs the U.S. over, the hard-eyed operators who make boxing their business scratched heads and tried to figure out the reason. After World War I there had been no dearth of fighters: there were Dempsey, Paul Berlenbach, Jack Delaney, Young Stribling and a raft of others...
...famed Bey's Training Camp for prize fighters near Summit, N.J.; of a heart attack; in Morristown, N.J. Widow of a onetime Turkish Consul General in New York, she had fed and mothered fighters on her farm for nearly 20 years. Among her "boys" were Tunney, Camera, Berlenbach, Schmeling, Battling Siki. She never bet on a fight...
Died. Daniel H. Hickey, 56, trainer of boxers (Robert Fitzsimmons, Paul Berlenbach, Mike McTigue, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson); of septic poisoning from an infected tooth; in Jackson Heights, N. Y. Sparring on the stage with Fitzsimmons, he accepted a knockout blow in the same place twice daily until, dazed, he asked Fitzsimmons to hit him on the other side of the head. Still dazed, he left the stage, died rich from managing Berlenbach...
...second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan sport pages, much discussed by prizefight enthusiasts. This was because the winner was Paul Berlenbach. onetime (1925-26) light heavyweight champion of the world. As many has-beens have done before him, but with more public sympathy than most. he was beginning to try to "come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against...
...fight for him, in Manhattan, next September, for a guarantee of $475,000 and half of the net gate receipts over $1,000,000 against any opponent Mr. Rickard picks out. To find the opponent there will be an elimination tournament involving Jack Sharkey, Jim Maloney, Jack Delaney, Paul Berlenbach and Michael Paolino. The winner of the tournament will fight Jack Dempsey (if Dempsey needs money badly enough to get in the ring), and the winner of this challenge round will fight Tunney. Jack Delaney, flashy lightheavy-weight, popular choice for Tunney's next opponent, will have...