Word: bouting
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Berlin, March 19--Promoter Walter Rothenburg has Max Schmeling signed to box Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship and is seeking a site for the bout, but has not been able to come to terms with the champion, he said today...
...public refuses to believe that he can fight. First step toward clearing up the matter was made last week in Hamburg, Germany, where Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, who held the heavyweight championship in 1930-32, started an attempt to get it back with a bout against Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer who thrashed him in Philadelphia a year...
...wayward girl, and took delight in making him suffer. Unable to take it any longer, Rogi went off to Budapest, where he made a sensation as a musician and became the kept man of a noble lady. Paprika finally went after him, surviving many a love bout by the way. Just as she was about to declare her love to Rogi her insatiable vanity got the better of her. and she married a dashing officer. On her bridal night Rogi cut her husband's throat and carried her off. They were pursued; escape was hopeless; shots cracked. . . . Realism triumphed...
...muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross's title in a bout this summer...
...learned boxing in a church basement, encouraged by his parish priest, Rev. Gustave Purificato, who still comes to all his fights. Lou Ambers has lost only one of his 46 professional bouts. Merciless in the ring, he dislikes watching fights because their brutality gives him insomnia, makes him sick. His ambition is to organize his nine brothers and sisters, all musically inclined, into a jazz band in which he can play banjo and clarinet. Before his fight with Champion Ross, he plans a "warmup bout" with ex-Champion Tony Canzoneri...