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Miles H. Illingworth '38, Joseph R. Coolidge, Jr. '38, David Emerson '33, Sidney Cobb '38, Lawrence M. Finkel '37, Robert A. Little '37, James H. Braddock, Jr. '35, Roger G. Rand, Jr. '35, Stearns P. Cummings '37, Reginald H. Smith, Jr. '37, Hallowell V. Morgan, Jr. '37, Hathaway Watson, Jr. '37, A. Sterling MacDonald, Jr. '36, John A. Curtis, Jr. 1G.B., Walter J. Watson '36, Field C. Leonard '36, Theophilus P. Chandler, Jr. '37, David M. Curtis...
...Asbury Park, Heavyweight Champion Max Baer, rehearsing for a radio skit while training for his June 13 fight with James J. Braddock, contrived to shoot himself in the chest with a revolver loaded with a blank cartridge. He was hospitalized for powder burns...
...next heavyweight champion of the world, Heavyweight Joe Louis continued his surprising career as a professional with his 14th knockout in 18 fights, against a thick-skulled New Jersey trial horse named Roy Lazer. At the ringside, more worried about Louis than his next opponent, James J. Braddock, whom he last week agreed to fight in June, sat Heavyweight Champion Max Baer...
...York, April 11--James J. Braddock, who a few months ago was a stevedore on the Jersey docks, tonight reportedly was signed to meet Max Baer for the world heavyweight championship in June...
...crowd, which had made Lasky a 3-to-1 favorite, it soon became apparent that the injury had little significance. Steady, savage, relentless, boxing with the enthusiasm that characterized his style ten years ago, the skill he has acquired in the course of a long and dismal career, Braddock was fighting the bout of a lifetime. The judges' decision, awarded to him at the finish, meant that Braddock had overnight become the kingpin in the current heavyweight situation, may well be chosen to fight Champion Max Baer next summer...