Word: boxer
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Pete Fuller, Varsity wrestling captain, represents the only other Crimson Olympic hope who can be justified six months ahead of time. Both a boxer and a wrestler, Fuller intends to tryout for the Olympic team on both squads and stands about an equal chance of making either one. As a fighter Fuller has lost only one fight, a close decision to national AAU champ, Willie Clemmons, two weeks ago in the Garden, while winning 26 other fights, 21 by knockouts. Clemmons plans to turn pro the first of next year, but Fuller may fight him in a return match toward...
Willie Clemmons, an experienced, ringwise veteran and A.A.U. heavyweight boxing champion, won a unanimous decision over Peter Fuller '46, Varsity wrestling captain and amateur boxer, in a cagey, three-round bout at the Boston Garden last night. It was Fuller's first boxing defeat in 27 fights around the Boston area...
...called him, took other boys out of police courts, made himself responsible for their behavior. He organized boxing lessons, lectures, hot-dog parties. Whenever a Gremlin slipped, the boy went up before the Gremlin Court for punishment. Sometimes the sentence was a match with the club's best boxer. Once a group of Gremlins were arrested for bombing a schoolhouse. They confessed, but said that they had done it the night before they had met him. After a little sleuthing, Father Swartsfager found they were telling the truth, went into court, got them released to his charge...
...Austro-Hungarian city of Pressburg. He spent his boyhood in Valparaiso, Ind., where his father was a small merchant, went on to De Pauw University, where he was twice president of the student body and an editor of the school paper. He turned into a promising light heavyweight boxer, and met a girl named Helen Marian Lamb...
Next day at the inquest the Cleveland coroner asked Sugar Ray Robinson if he noticed whether Doyle was in trouble during the fight. Said Sugar Ray, giving him the best answer a professional boxer could: "Getting him in trouble is my business as a boxer and a champion...