Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sportsman. Big, powerful, restless, Doyle is first of all a man of action. He is proficient at most games. Brilliant cricketer, masterly billiard player, fisherman, footballer, horseman, skier, first-rate boxer (he was asked to referee the Johnson-Jeffries fight), golfer - he has at least dabbled in everything...
...Prince also proved his ability as a boxer. In the ship's gymnasium, he had a friendly round or so with the ship's instructor. "You want to shoot that left out sharper, sir," said the instructor. The Prince did, and caught him a good, stiff biff on the jaw. He apologized profusely, but his mentor replied, touching his face tenderly, "I deserved all I got from...
Gibbons, the "phantom" who lasted 15 rounds against Dempsey last summer at Shelby, Mont., received ?10,000 for seven minutes' work. Basking Boxer Bloomfield was given...
...known in ring parlance as the raspberry. The American public would not tolerate any of its fistic heroes in the latter unflattering light. And the American public could not conceivably believe in the verisimilitude of the first role. For none in America ever heard of a poor young boxer...
Died. Alvey Augustus Adee, 82, "the indispensible Adee," famed diplomat and for the last 38 years Second Assistant Secretary of State; in Washington. In 1870, he succeeded John Hay as Secretary of the Legation at Madrid, was Acting Secretary of State during critical stages of the Boxer Rebellion in China. The apparent deafness of his later years was suspected to be a "diplomatic" ailment. He spent his vacations riding his bicycle in Germany and France...