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...WILLIAM CORBETT Brookline, Mass...
Left. By James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, onetime (1892-97) world heavyweight boxing champion: $4,534: to his widow...
...Jimmy ("Babyface") McLarnin, hammer-fisted Vancouver fighter: the world's welterweight championship; by knocking out Champion Young Corbett III in 2 min. 30 sec.; in Los Angeles. ¶ The New York Yankees: a ballgame against Philadelphia, 17 to 11, with three runs in the second inning, one in the third, ten in the fifth, and three in the eighth when Babe Ruth clouted his tenth homer of the season with two men on base; in Manhattan. The Athletics scored all their runs in one inning, the third. Yankee Pitcher Walter Brown fanned 12 men in six and one-third...
...expenses, given it a place to rehearse in his big Hub Store. Boxing, not music, was George Lytton's hobby when he first joined his father in the men's clothing business. He used to be regarded as amateur heavyweight champion, fought in his youth against Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jack Johnson. He kept punching bags and skipping ropes in his office where now he has double-basses and oboes (his collection includes 28 big fiddles) which he lends to his fellow amateurs...
...First was the late James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, son of a San Francisco livery-stable owner. First "Young Corbett" was George Green of San Francisco who thrashed Mysterious Billy Smith for the welterweight championship in 1897. "Terrible Terry" McGovern lost his featherweight championship to the second "Young Corbett" (William Rothwell...