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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Spirit of Youth (Grand National). Smart Producer Lew Colder signed up Joe Louis to make a picture for $15,000, right after Louis had beaten Welsh Tommy Farr in his first defense of his world's heavyweight championship. By the time Joe reached Hollywood, Producer Golder had collected a dusky crew of professionals from downtown Los Angeles, planned an all-Negro story that would more or less parallel the Brown Bomber's shuffling clamber to fame. Taking on a wonderful waxworks-plus-minstrel-show quality from its principal player, Spirit of Youth will certainly not be duplicated...
...round bout with Welshman Tommy Farr, British heavyweight champion. For eight rounds Jim Braddock did nothing to belie the betting public's estimation of him. Then suddenly, in the ninth round, the 32-year-old "Cinderella Man," who came off Relief three years ago to win the world championship from Max Baer and then lost it to Joe Louis last June, pranced out of his corner, began slugging rights & lefts at his opponent. Before Welshman Farr knew what it was all about, the tenth round was over and Jim Braddock was the winner...
Engaged. Helen ("Billie") Hicks, 26, sturdy golfer who won the U. S. women's amateur championship in 1931; to Widower Whitney Harb, 44, president of a North Little Rock, Ark. auto agency; in Little Rock...
Thus last week experts reckoned the best teams in the country as college basketball reached midseason. Because there is no national championship, the question of who plays the best basket-ball is one that perennially and profoundly agitates thousands of pool rooms and fraternity houses throughout the U. S. Each section of the country claims superiority, and the more pretentious teams usually spend Christmas vacation on a junket trying to prove it. This year basketball fans had an additional cause for controversy: the new centre-jump rule...
...sophomore year, Forward Luisetti scored 32 points in 32 minutes during a Conference championship game. The same year he tallied 24 points in eleven minutes. In two years of varsity play (sophomore and junior) he scored 826 points, breaking the recognized three-year college scoring record of 632 made by Robert Meaney of Lehigh University in 1928-30. This season (his last) he is credited with making an all-time college record of 50 points in one game during the 92-10-27 victory over Duquesne during the Christmas trip. His total score since he started to play at Stanford...