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Because their two previous fights had been peculiarly uneventful, the crowd in Madison Square Garden for last week's bout between Heavyweight Contenders Ernie Schaaf and Stanley Poreda was one of the smallest of the year. The fight was one of the most exciting. Poreda, a handsome, over-confident Pole, came out en- thusiastically for the first round. He outboxed Schaaf and continued to outbox him in the second until, when the round was more than half over, Schaaf landed the blow that really settled the fight. This was a short right uppercut which caught Poreda squarely...
...Robert Tyre Jones Jr.'s record in 1930. Yet Sarazen flubbed the Professional Championship, did not even qualify. Josef Paul Cuckoschay (Jack Sharkey) of Boston retrieved the world's heavyweight boxing championship for the U. S. from Germany's Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling in a bout that satisfied few patrons. All-around athlete of 1932 was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas who scored more individual points in the Olympics than any other participant. Last week Miss Didrikson turned professional...
...games and 248-2 for 12 games, bettering her own best previous scores, and a perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...
...favored Harvard wrestling team carried off the honors at the Technology gymnasium last night by taking the M. I. T. grapplers into camp by a score of 29.5, losing only one bout...
...engineers' only victory came in the third bout, the 135-pound division, when Judd of Tech managed to throw J. B. Gilbert '33 in one of the best matches of the evening...