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...Sharkey's head, then at his body. After ten fast savage rounds, the judges unanimously gave the decision to Chicago's Levinsky, highly elating the onetime fish peddler's Maxwell Street friends, many of whom had climbed over Comiskey Park's fence to watch the bout...
Died. Louis F. ("Lou") Magnolia (né Magliola), boxing referee famed for his feline springs and crouches to follow the fighters in the ring; of cancer; in Queens, N. Y. His most celebrated decision: disqualifying Phil Scott of England in his bout with Jack Sharkey (Miami...
...quarters in Detroit last week. At 14. Hubert Scott-Paine ran away to sea. Before the War, : his early twenties, he became interested in airplanes, flew so recklessly that IK was jailed for "suicidal intent." Stranded in the South of France, he joined a circus, got 20 francs a bout for boxing with anyone who wanted to earn ?3 by staying three rounds. An Englishman who did it made friends with Scott-Paine, took him back to England, started him in airplane building. In the War, Hubert Scott-Paine became a director of Imperial Airways, to whose board he still...
...half years that he has been a professional fisticuffer. Born in Saint Eugene. Quebec, he was moved to Danielson, Conn., when he was nine. Three years ago. a peaceable weaver in a Connecticut cotton mill, he went to watch an amateur boxing tournament, substituted in a lightweight bout and won it. After six months as an amateur, he turned professional. When an opponent broke two ribs on his right side, he tried boxing lefthanded. Says he: "When the ribs are cured, I can't go back to fighting right-handed again. Je reste gaucher." Shortly after his first professional...
...Buddy Baer, 245-lb. younger brother of Heavyweight Contender Max Baer: an amateur bout with 16-oz. gloves against one Chuck Stringari, of Detroit; by a knockout in the first round; in San Francisco...