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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Hartford's battered Bat Battalino abdicated his title in 1932, there has been no undisputed world's featherweight (126 Ib.) champion. Last week Promoter Mike Jacobs, who has had a hand in settling the championship of practically every other division of boxing, inaugurated his tenure of the boxing rights at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden by matching the two ranking featherweight contenders in an effort to produce one acknowledged champion...
Petey Sarron, a homely, 29-year-old Alabaman of Syrian descent, has been the National Boxing Association's champion since he outpointed Freddie Miller in Washington last year. Negro Henry Armstrong, 24, has been recognized as champion in California since he knocked out the New York State Athletic Commission's Champion Mike Belloise, although the Commission still recognized Belloise because his bout with Armstrong was scheduled for ten rather than 15 rounds. Thus when Boxer Belloise, ill in The Bronx, was persuaded to exchange his championship claim for the promise of a return match, all Henry Armstrong...
...helplessly over his hairy chest, Armstrong pummeled him harder than ever. Near the end of the round, Armstrong suddenly let loose a long, looping right to the jaw, and Sarron, for the first time in his twelve-year career, crumpled to the canvas to stay. Most notable fact about Champion Armstrong, who was able to finish high school by setting up pins in a St. Louis bowling alley and developed his sturdy legs by training for one of C. C. Pyle's "bunion derbies," is that he belongs to Blackface Singer Al Jolson. Singer Jolson whose great heart...
...Champion Armstrong is by no means Hollywood's sole venture into sporting promotion. Middleweight Champion Freddy Steele is partly owned by Bing Crosby, who also supports a girls' baseball team called the Croonerettes, promotes a $3,000 golf tournament, and is the principal stockholder in the Del Mar racetrack near San Diego. Producers Hal Roach and Jack Warner are No. 1 and No. 2 stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen...
GREAT LEVELER - Thomas Frederick Woodley-Stackpole ($3.50). Cautious mud-removal job on "the most despicable, malevolent and morally deformed character who has ever risen to high power in America," clubfooted, sardonic, bachelor Thaddeus Stevens, Lincoln's powerful House whip, hard-bitten champion of the Reconstruction Act, the 14th Amendment, Andrew Johnson's impeachment...