Word: delfino
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...afternoon to see the horses run. Forty miles away, at Gloversville, Tunney pounded the bag or jogged over the hills. One day Louis Fink, Tunney's manager, slipped over to Dempsey's camp and watched the champion deal briskly with his four sparring partners- Robert Delfino, South American heavyweight, James Saxon, middleweight, James Brown, Negro middle-weight from Panama, Philip Weisberg, heavyweight from Brooklyn. Jack Kearns, Dempsey's one-time manager, attached the Dempsey Rolls-Royce for sums which he declared stood owing. Then from Manhattan came a surprising announcement. Tex Rickard, foreseeing nothing but litigation...