Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paddy Mack, Boston wrestler: a bout with one Mustapha Pasha; when a spectator tossed a lighted cigaret into Mustapha Pasha's open mouth, causing him to squeal, choke, lie flat on his back; in Hollywood...
...minds of many there will be a strong suspicion that it was more than robbery. More probably it was premeditated dishonesty. Had Sharkey "won," there would now be little excuse for a third combat. As it is, the stage is set for another bout, to bring in gate receipts for the fighters, and lucre for any judges whom either manager may care to bribe. In athletics, too, New York seems to have "the best judges money can buy;" at best, they are unduly patriotic. If there were more Yankee triotic. If there were more Yankee shrewdness in the nation...
...Larry Gains, colored heavyweight of Canada, who once defeated Champion Max Schmeling: a ten-round bout against huge Primo Camera, who outweighed him 268 Ib. to 200; before 71,000 spectators, in London...
...worth watching. Last week the members of this group spent most of their time in or near the dressing room of Eddie Flynn, a Loyola University dentistry student who was defending his championship in the 147-lb. class. Flynn, a better boxer than most professionals, won his semi-final bout and then lay down to nap on a rubbing table while his trainer explained that Flynn was 22 years old and married, that he earned $60 a month as a janitor, that he had no intention of becoming a professional. Presently Flynn swung himself off the rubbing bench, walked...
...fights, won only eight. If you defined efficiency as a fighter's ability to earn money at his trade, Kingfish Levinsky might rank as best fighter in the U. S. In the last 15 months, gates at his fights with Slattery, Griffiths, Camera, Paulino and an exhibition bout against Jack Dempsey have amounted to $254,124.68. He may this year earn more than Schmeling, Sharkey, Dempsey, Camera or Schaaf. Kingfish Levinsky's earning power is due partly to an engaging slapstick manner in the ring, an engaging entourage which includes his sister Mrs. Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed...