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...really too hot to fight; few blows landed with real conviction. Cops soon stopped the festivities with gentle words. Penalties: a $100 fine slapped on each manager by League President Warren Giles, who had seen the Donnybrook in mute rage. Final score (if it mattered): Redlegs 5, Cardinals...
Republicans made the most of Leader's turnabout. Jeered U.S. Senator and ex-Governor James Duff: "The Leader tax program is sure enough a rock 'em, sock 'em plan, a regular Donnybrook Fair idea. When you look around to see who is getting hurt, you get socked right on the button yourself-more of a tax smack by hundreds of millions than was ever before proposed in Pennsylvania, most of it in direct violation of definite campaign pledges." But George Leader stood his ground. He snapped: "I have just begun to fight...
Next year Zale took the title back in another Donnybrook. In and out of trouble with boxing's bigwigs, Rocky managed to keep himself in contention until 1952. Then, in Chicago, Sugar Ray Robinson knocked him out, and convinced him that he was through. But the man who finally turned his back on the ring was no longer the wise guttersnipe, the terror of Tenth Street. He had calmed down enough to become a TV comedian...
...cocky young Spike Webb was a comer, good enough to tangle in a nontitle Donnybrook with Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion. But before he had a chance to tackle Kilbane again, Spike was mixed up in a much bigger brawl. As coach of the 29th Division boxing team, he caught the eye of General John J. Pershing. At war's end he trained the A.E.F. boxing team for the Inter-Allied Army games in Paris. Spike has no trouble recalling the most stylish fighter on his squad: a young marine light heavyweight named Gene Tunney...
...developing into a Donnybrook," the former counsel to the Kefauver Committee continued. "You're not going to get anywhere with endless questions on bias and motive. And that's what's happening here...