Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Secretary of the 'Navy Wilbur, interviewed by Washington correspondents last week, recounted to them a little homily about a U.S. marine who served during the Boxer campaign. This marine, said Mr. Wilbur, spoke up and told the commander of certain troops of a certain foreign power that his men ought not to fire at a group of Chinese. The advice was taken, the Chinese spared; but the marine was later rebuked by a U.S. officer for speaking to a foreign officer. "Aw," he replied, "I didn't mean no harm...
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur said that he thought this a very good example of the spirit animating the marine corps, no less today than during Boxer times. ¶ Near Shanghai, Mr. John Powell, correspondent of the Chicago Tribune, found several U. S. marines guarding a bridge last week and was addressed by one of them as follows: "The English got scared and sent for the Americans to come and help them out. I thought we'd see something doing, but the show's all over and here we are sitting in the rain." ¶ Fifteen hundred more...
...opinion the challenger is sure to come from his side of the elimination tournament which is being run by promoter Tex Rickard. Dempsey is the leading contender on the other side, but the Boston boxer believes that the former champion will not succeed in his "comeback" attempt...
...American commanders in Chinese waters lose their heads as the majority of the American newspapers seem, to have lost theirs over the Nanking crisis this country will be involved in a war in China whose outcome will be very different from that of the Boxer outbreak 25 years...
Died. James ("Jimmy") Delaney,* 25, light heavyweight boxer; of blood poisoning resulting from a fight with Maxie Rosenbloom, in which a bone in his left elbow was splintered; in Minneapolis. "Jimmy" took part in 67 major bouts, won 29 including 19 knockouts, lost 9; 29 had no decision...