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Fred Penn, Omaha fisticuffer, gave one day last week half a pint of his own blood to save his mother's life in a transfusion operation. That same night, Fred Penn stepped into a prize ring, knocked down Fisticuffer Clarence Berger four times, won the bout...
...Nelson Harding, whose "Intolerance" figure is reproduced, won the Pulitzer Prize of 1927 for his picture of Colonel Lindbergh flying to Mexico with his plane casting a cruciform shadow labeled "Peace on Earth, Goodwill to Men." At the end of August he drew a telling picture called "The Big Bout to Date"?an enormous prize-ring in which two tiny pugilists (the two Parties) threatened each other with furious futility from opposite corners. The crowd was yelling: "Fight! G'wan, fight...
World's Champion Fisticuffer James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, training in New York for a title bout with Thomas Heeney of New Zealand at Promoter Rickard's Madison Square Garden in July, was reported vexed at Mr. Rickard's Houston visit. Tunney was said to have said: "Why doesn't he stay here and mind his own business? I need him worse than the Democrats...
...title holders are J. T. Mooney '31, Benjamin Eisner 2L, C. A. Floro 2L, and O. T. Roberg 1M. Three matches were of especial interest. In the 145 pound class G. N. Burns '29 succeeded in holding his title, after battling through to a semi final and final bout. At the outset of his first bout with Perry Baird 4M he was taken by surprise and during the first round was largely at the mercy of his opponent. In the last two rounds, however, his greater stamina saved him. In the final bout with R. A. Thomas '30 the crowd...
...feature of the evening, however, was the final bout of the 175 pound class. In the two preliminary battles O. T. Roberg 1M, captain of the Princeton team last year, and Stuart French '29, worked their way to the finals. The ensuing battle kept the gymnasium in a continual uproar. Roberg's ability to take punishment and his terrific punches in the last round gained him the decision...