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...middleweight Army boxer, Eddie Eagan won the championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...
...last week Eddie Eagan finally took a count of ten. He resigned his job, and the ink was barely dry before Governor Dewey appointed his successor: Hotelman Robert Christenberry, 52, whose favorite indoor sport is watching wrestling matches on television...
...would put the full blame for boxing's sorry state on ex-Commissioner Eagan. But he was never one to crack the whip over boxing's hoodlums. Wrote New York Herald Tribune Sport Columnist Red Smith: "Eddie Eagan is a genuinely sweet guy. He is profoundly honest and profoundly sincere, diffident, humble and considerate. The first two qualities are indispensable in a boxing commissioner; probably the other three are a handicap." Smith also had a warning for Christenberry: "This veteran hotelman will find the fight mob noisier than convention drunks, less manageable than a weekend football crowd...
...associated with Myers presumably will pay the supreme penalty of getting a similar heave-to-my-hearties, but I am confident that Boston College would salvage something valuable from the wreck if she placed her destiny in the big, capable heads of Moody Sarno, teacher of boys. From Dave Eagan's column, Boston Record, December...
...half, Dudley could not get its scoring power going again in the third period. But Leverett began to click in the first part of the fourth quarter, when Sid Hargreaves threw a touchdown pass to Dick Reynolds. Dudley made its last touchdown, right after, on an interception by Tom Eagan...