Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, to the amazement of the boxing world, German Pugilist Max Schmeling knocked out Negro Pugilist Joe Louis a year ago, his just reward was obviously a bout with Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock. Contracts were signed last winter. The bout was scheduled for last week...
...after his defeat by Schmeling, Pugilist Louis regained prestige. Champion Braddock and his manager presently decided a bout with Louis might be more profitable than a bout with Schmeling. They signed a contract for that one also. The contracts were mutually exclusive but the ethics of pugilism are such that no one was much surprised at this nor by Champion Braddock's announcement that he had no intention of living up to his contract with Schmeling. Only unusual feature of the affair was the behavior of Pugilist Schmeling...
...shattered. That they should feel thus seems only natural, but the picture tries to make the situation highly dramatic. Does Parnell betray Ireland or Ireland Parnell? That is the question. The result is a hopelessly wishy-washy conflict between mass admiration and the illegal love of a party champion. With both sides in a deadlock, the script solves its problems by killing off Mr. Gable that Ireland may profit from his plight...
Because Shute was the defending P. G. A. champion, his match with Open Champion Manero might have been the climax of the tournament. It ended on the 34th green when Manero, who had never been less than i down since the third, just failed to hole a 20-yd. chip shot he needed to keep the match alive. The match was not the climax of the tournament because the final the following day, between Shute and McSpaden, who had nosed out Laffoon, turned out to be as bitterly contested as any engagement in the P. G. A.'s earnest...
Playing onetime Champion Cyril Tolley in the second round, 59-year-old Michael Scott, who won the tournament in 1933, came to the 17th green thinking he was 2 down, picked up his ball instead of putting for a half, and said, "thanks, pleasant match." Officials pointed out that he had been only i down, ruled that he had lost by picking...