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...That Simon is a lot better fighter than most people think," drawled the Cham pion. His fellow townsmen cheered the most exciting fight of the year, agreed that Simon should be expelled from the Bum-of-the-Month Club. Hardly had the crowd filed out of the arena when Promoter Mike Jacobs announced a return match between Simon and Louis - in New York, May 16, with a $15 instead...
After graduating cum laude from Howard University, freckled Vunies Barrow, 23, sister of freckled Heavyweight Cham pion Joe Louis (Barrow), shuffled up to him with her guard down, got a stunning smack on the cheek...
...when they outplay 100 to 500 opponents and finish in the money. When a professional wins the National Open championship, No. 1 U. S. golf event, he receives only $1,000 cash-about the same amount a second-rate prize fighter gets as a preliminary attraction to a world-cham-pionship fight-plus advertising which has no fixed cash value...
...where the match ended. It set the stage for a final in which Miss Van Wie's opponent for the title she won a year ago was her close friend and houseguest, Helen ("Billie") Hicks. Still a little chagrined at failing to qualify for last year's cham- pionship, after winning the year before, Helen Hicks, swinging her driver with a masculine wrist-flick and punching out her irons like a pro, had beaten square-jawed Maureen Orcutt...
...small, unrepentant lawbreaker into the Picture Gallery. There at the head of the receiving line stood George V in striped trousers and morning coat, Queen Mary in a shimmering silver tea gown and Edward of Wales (who had flown down especially from Liverpool) dressed like his father. The Lord Cham berlain, the Earl of Cromer, advanced through a horde of 500 tea guests, some of them Maharajas wearing pearls as big as butterballs...