Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Boxer John Henry Lewis: a technical knockout over Bob Olin, after flooring him for a count of seven in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout, in St. Louis; thus retaining the world's light-heavyweight title he won from Olin...
...tickled when letters from hopeful investors asking M. Grantaire's address began to flood the Press office. Soon Mr. Paine grew accustomed to seeing his fabulous tale reprinted in unsophisticated journals under the heading "Scientific Notes" or "Nuggets of Fact." Back from the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Uprising, working on the New York Herald, Spiderman Paine had the fabrication brought to his attention again in 1902 when a plagiarist tried to sell it to him for publication in the Herald. Soon thereafter, Reporter Paine gave up newspaper work for fiction and became a successful author of novels...
...months ago, they were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and girls. MacDonald told his new friends that he was the New England middleweight amateur boxing champion.- Morgan said he was a boxer too. A quick success with the girls, the pair persuaded a shy young appointee to Annapolis (whose name was withheld by the police last week) to let them use his family's Culver City house for a "party." Since his family was away on a vacation and he was promised...
...weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase...
...Negro Boxer Henry Armstrong, whose contract is owned by Cinemactor Al Jolson: his ten-round bout against Aldo Spoldi, lightweight champion of Italy, by decision; in Manhattan...