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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately France will have "to give Hitler's pacifistic proposals the benefit of the doubt," because the desertion of her cause by Britain has rendered any other course of action suicidal. A world which can still put faith in the pious words of Europe's champion treaty-breaker will give Germany the twenty-five year breathing-spell she needs so urgently, while M. Francon's question-how does the presence of 90,000 troops in the Rhineland serve the cause of peace-goes unanswered...
Last week the business of avenging the sad affair of Tom Molineaux fell to his great-great-grandnephew, John Henry Lewis, a coffee-colored 21-year-old from Phoenix, Ariz., who is currently light-heavyweight champion of the world. Lewis' opponent in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden was the first Englishman in the past decade deemed worthy of a chance to win such an important title, a tubby-looking, determined young Lancashireman named Jock McAvoy, billed as middleweight and light-heavyweight champion of the British Empire...
...second U. S. fight three months ago McAvoy distinguished himself by knocking out Middleweight Champion Babe Risko in the first round. Eager to duplicate that achievement, he pounced out of his corner last week when the bell rang for the first round, planted two solid lefts on Lewis' face. Stung but not stunned, Lewis retaliated with a hard right. In the rounds that followed, McAvoy continued to charge his bigger, heavier adversary. Lewis settled down to the strategy of a skillful animal trainer subduing the ferocity of an angry lion cub by poking it in the face with...
...fighting as an amateur. Instead, he took all the professional fights he could find, in the course of which he gradually worked his way up to the top of his class by the time he had acquired his full growth - 6 ft. & 172 Ib. James J. Braddock, now heavyweight champion of the world, beat him once, lost to him once, considers him the best man he ever fought. Jack Dempsey, who refereed one of his bouts two years ago, called him the best young fighter in the U. S. That was before Dempsey had seen another young Negro fighter, Heavyweight...
Arthur Oakes '38, last year's heavyweight champion, who lost to Douglas G. MacLeod '39 in the 165-pound class Thursday afternoon, changed to the 175-pound class and defeated Drexel A. Spreacher of the Law School to gain the title in this event...