Word: championship
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best available man," wrote resigning Mr. Whalen with exemplary modesty. ". . . Judge Mahoney is far better equipped." That new Candidate Jeremiah Titus Mahoney was better equipped, many a politician was inclined to agree. Onetime athlete (in 1897 he won New York City's all-round athletic championship), onetime law partner of New York's politically powerful Senator Robert F. Wagner (still his close friend), onetime State Supreme Court Justice (he resigned in 1928 to return to private practice), honest Jeremiah Mahoney, now 62, big-framed and firm-jawed, has made few enemies among New York politicians, has the confusing...
...penultimate Jacobs business triumph, which paved the way for his finally leasing the boxing rights at the great Madison Square Garden last week, was his promotion of the Braddock-Louis fight in Chicago last June, first heavyweight championship bout not staged by Madison Square Garden in 18 years. But the final spurt which sent him on his way to becoming top man in U. S. fight promotion began in 1934 when Madison Square Garden, longtime promoter of at least one annual boxing match for Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies, decided to discontinue that practice...
...over the heavyweight fight industry was out for the count of ten when Braddock, its erstwhile "Cinderella Man," hit the canvas. Next; week Max Schmeling arrives in the U. S. There is every possibility that he will now have his long-delayed try for his second world's championship, only this time both champion and challenger will belong to the Jacobs stable...
...promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with Rickard in 1916 when Rickard moved into New York with the Jess Willard-Frank Moran championship fight. Jacobs bought up a huge block of tickets, paid Rickard a premium and sold them for a profit. Years later, as boxing promoter at Madison Square Garden, Rickard was supposed to have continued the practice on a far larger scale. By controlling the fighter, promoting the fight and speculating...
...disparaging remarks about anyone in the presence of reporters. Last week several young golfers returning from last month's Ryder Cup matches in England (TIME, July 12) disregarded both rules. Loudest in their disparagement of both the Ryder Cup matches which Great Britain lost and the British Open Championship at Carnoustie which England's Henry Cotton won, were brash young...