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...never met Mussolini but ... he sent word that I should visit him after the fight, win, lose or draw. . . ." Last week's was the second spectacular heavyweight fight in a month. By beating Sharkey-who won the championship a year ago by a debatable decision in his bout with Max Schmeling and who had previously been considered a shade the best of a mediocre group of U. S. heavy-weights-Monster Camera last week qualified for a bout with Max Baer, who knocked out Schmeling (TIME, June 19). Onetime champion Jack Dempsey, who, as promoter, has an option...
...gives Canzoneri, who had held the title for three years, a return match next autumn. Far more uncertain than the light weight situation is the condition of the heavyweight championship. This week's fight between Jack Sharkey (champion) and Primo Camera is actually no more than an elimination bout to provide a worthy opponent for Max Baer, who beat Schmeling. In Oakland, Calif., newshawks last week unearthed another Baer possibly even more alarming than Max-his brother "Buddy" Baer, 17, 6 ft. 4½ in., 246 lb., who plans to become a professional fisticuffer next autumn...
...Browning, heavyweight champion wrestler in New York state: a bout against Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer, wrestling champion in Illinois; by decision of the referee, when, after two hours, neither contestant had secured a fall; in Manhattan...
...This is the third successive Warner Brothers picture to be distinguished by lavatory scenes (the other two were Baby Face and Central Airport. A happy thought was the teaming of tough, noisy Alice White with tough, noisy Cagney. Without plot restrictions, it is doubtful who would have won the bout...
...time, three times a week, became a close friend of Marion Lloyd who, another Vince pupil, has the soundest technic among U. S. woman fencers. Dark-haired, calm, utterly unromantic, Fencer Locke trains on as much chow-mein as she can eat, never loses her temper in a bout. In her autograph collection she prizes most highly the signature of Helene Mayer, the German Army officer's daughter who won the Olympic fencing in 1928, is now studying in California...