Word: danno
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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Marriage Revealed. Daniel Michael ("Danno") O'Mahoney, 23, of Ballydehob, Ireland, world's heavyweight wrestling champion on furlough from the Irish Free State Army (TIME, Aug. 12); and Nurse Julia Esther Burke, 27, of Cambridge, Mass.; in Cambridge...
...long and far from simple annals of wrestling, few careers are more remarkable than that of a 224-lb. oddity from Ballydehob, County Cork, named Danno O'Mahoney. A wrestling scout in Dublin on other business last autumn discovered O'Mahoney serving as a soldier in the Free State Army, brought him to the U. S., enlisted him as a member of the famed troupe of professional wrestlers...
Promoter Jack Curley. Aided by two enormous paws, a neck thicker than his head and a strange grip which he called the "Irish whip." Danno O'Mahoney promptly won 49 bouts in a row. For his 50th. he received the reward of a match with Jim Londos, principal claimant to the World's Heavyweight Championship...
...Burly, bone-crunching Danno O'Mahoney: a wrestling bout with Ben Tenario ("Chief Little Wolf") ; in 28 min. 28 sec.; in Manhattan. Champion O'Mahoney rocked the Navajo Indian in a cradle roll, hurled him to the mat with an Irish whip, polished off the bout with a boa-constrictor body hold...
...bout was the 50th in a row which 220-lb., 22-year-old Danno Aloysius O'Mahoney has won since he arrived in the U. S. last December. A soldier in the Irish Free State Army, he was discovered in Dublin by a Boston entrepreneur, came here on furlough. Before Danno O'Mahoney has an undisputed claim to the title, he must defeat Ed Don George, still recognized as Champion in Canada and several states...