Word: champion
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Braddock v. Louis. Biggest fight of 1936 was Max Schmeling's surprising knockout of Negro Joe Louis. Biggest reward for Schmeling was a contract with Madison Square Garden to fight Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock. Biggest drawback in the plan was the fact that Champion Braddock, faced with the necessity of risking his title for the first time since he won it two years ago, much preferred to risk it against Joe Louis, with whom he could draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt...
Steele v. Risko, Middleweights (145 to 160 lb.) have produced no outstanding champion since Mickey Walker retired in 1931. Last summer, after holding the championship of the class for less than a year, Middleweight Babe Risko of Syracuse, N. Y. lost it to Middleweight Freddie Steele of Tacoma, Wash. Unconvinced that Steele was the better man, Risko challenged his conqueror to a return match. This time, to get the champion into the ring, he had to guarantee Steele a $25,000 purse which he hoped to get out of the receipts...
...observers considered the most brilliant performance ever seen on the Racquets Club's court, Grant polished off Warren Ingersoll of Philadelphia, one of the country's five ablest, in 19 minutes: 15-5, 15-2, 15-4. In the final, two days later, his opponent was again Champion Edwards. This time it took Grant just half an hour to win match & title...
Today he faces stiff opposition none the loss. His opponent is Buell Hollister, and though the Eli was not so fortunate at Philadelphia, he is the Connecticut State Champion, and will prove to be a formidable opponent. The boys here from New Haven who have followed Hollister's playing feel that he is capable of toppling the favored Crimson leader, an event that would go a long way towards getting for the Elis revenge for their last year's 7-2 defeat...
...Dorson's match with Hollister will be the feature of the squash match, so the attempt of Win Pettingell to upset pole vault champion Bill Harding will be a feature of the Quadrangular track meet in the Garden. The Crimson lad has done 13 feet 6 inches once this year, in the B.A.A. games; but he will have to step higher tonight to keep up with the Eli star who barely missed two of his tries at 14 feet in the Millrose games. It will be an interesting event, for while everyone expects that Harding will repeat, the Harvard Junior...