Word: braddock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penultimate Jacobs business triumph, which paved the way for his finally leasing the boxing rights at the great Madison Square Garden last week, was his promotion of the Braddock-Louis fight in Chicago last June, first heavyweight championship bout not staged by Madison Square Garden in 18 years. But the final spurt which sent him on his way to becoming top man in U. S. fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago...
...breakfast dance in the Casino Ballroom over Henry Bolton's store, a speech by the eminent Negro Statesman Roscoe Conkling Simmons (familiar to all attendants at Republican National Conventions), and a showing of motion pictures of the fight of the century: Joe Louis beating World Champion James J. Braddock (25? admission). And so on to Friday...
Captured at 18 by the Caughnawaga Indians, young Smith ran the gauntlet at Fort Duquesne. There he witnessed raiding parties returning with the scalps of General Braddock's massacred army, the slow burning alive of nine prisoners. Instead of killing Smith the Indians adopted him into their tribe, took him 300 miles into the Ohio wilderness. In the five years that elapsed before he made his escape he acquired an unbeatable knowledge of Indian ways, a lasting hatred for the arms and liquor traffic that lay at the root of the bloody feud between Indians and whites...
...Champion Braddock's share was 50% of the gross receipts after State and Federal taxes had been deducted. Of his original $300,000, Braddock had to give half to his longtime manager, Joe Gould, who pays training expenses. Of his remaining $150,000 almost half went for taxes, $15,000 more to settle a debt with Promoter Jacobs...