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Word: bouts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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After an hour and a half of the kind of undemonstrative growling and groveling of which most wrestling addicts heartily disapprove although they know it signifies the sincerity of the bout they are watching, Wrestler O'Mahoney contrived to throw his opponent over the ropes. Rules specified that George had 20 seconds in which to climb back into the ring. When he failed to do so, Referee James J. Braddock, Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, raised O'Mahoney's right hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merger on O'Mahoney | 8/12/1935 | See Source »

...Burly, bone-crunching Danno O'Mahoney: a wrestling bout with Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf") ; in 28 min. 28 sec.; in Manhattan. Champion O'Mahoney rocked the Navajo Indian in a cradle roll, hurled him to the mat with an Irish whip, polished off the bout with a boa-constrictor body hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Who Won | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

...would win in the sixth. When it was over, Joe Louis gave out a detailed apology for his error: "I missed him in my round so I thought I might as well get him in his." Joe Louis' next fight, scheduled as a warm-up for his bout with Schmeling, will be against King Levinsky in Chicago next month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bomber, Assassin, Slasher | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

Because most wrestling addicts firmly believe their favorite sport to be dishonestly conducted and because Heavyweight Champion Jim Londos was scheduled to climax his season with a widely ballyhooed charity match against Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf"), no one paid much attention to Londos' bout with a young Irishman named Danno O'Mahoney last week except O'Mahoney and 30,000 Bostonians who crowded Fenway Park to watch it. An agreement between the wrestlers stated that if the bout, originally billed as two out of three falls, lasted more than an hour, the first to gain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Free State Soldier | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Free State Soldier | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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