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Footballman Bobby Green will battle Al Corbett, who broke his hand last year, for the call in the 155-pound class. Captain Pete Olney, who lost only one bout last year, seems to have a competitor in the 165's in Eddie Davis, who is regaining his top form of two years...
...gigantic, bearded father of one of Sadie's three informal children, takes umbrage at the usurper, comes down the mountain with his fowling piece. After a careful rehearsal of grunts, groans, screams and floor-poundings, the two are shown wrestling in the arena. Pep talk before the bout: "Never forget, boys, that a good wrestler is always a good performer...
...sort or another. Tendler, now a 180-lb. restaurateur, is the manager of Philadelphia's latest pugilistic hope, a large blond Italian named Al Ettore. Without fighting much outside his home town, Ettore had by last summer managed to get enough local following to justify a bout with famed Joe Louis, who is trying to rebuild the reputation as a superfighter that was destroyed by Max Schmeling last June. Last week, 24 hours before the tenth anniversary of the rainy night that Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey there for the championship of the world, Ettore and Louis crawled into...
Chief significance of Louis' victory was that it added weight to arguments in favor of a bout between Louis and Champion Jim Braddock before the latter fights Max Schmeling next June. Braddock's contract with Madison Square Garden prohibits his defending his title before the Schmeling fight. Last week, Philadelphia's Promoter Herman Taylor explored a loophole in the agreement by offering Braddock a fat sum to fight for a no-decision fight with Louis-i. e., a fight in which Braddock's title would not be at stake. Madison Square Garden promptly protested that...
...strokes in 60 minutes. Subtracting 54 errors, he had averaged 135 words a minute, tying the all-time world record. Panting Peters, only two words a minute behind, got up gloomily, prepared to entrain for Toronto, where this week at the Canadian National Exhibition another rival international championship bout is to be held...