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Last week, the Italian Boxing Federation banned the proposed bout between Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champion of Italy, and his brother, Giuseppe Spalla. Infuriated at what he termed, in an excited tirade, the mollycoddlishness of the Federation, Giuseppe declared that, if the bout could not be held in public, it would certainly take place in private, under any convenient conditions. Financial as well as athletic differences are said to have estranged Erminio and Giuseppe...
Over the Alps in Italy lay the heavyweight boxing championship of Europe, secure in the possession of fierce Erminio Spalla. Undaunted, huge Piet Vanderveer of Holland journeyed to Milan, undressed, put on his fighting gloves, attacked the champion. An enormous crowd of Italians, no less demonstrative than most of their countrymen, loosed vociferous cheers as first one big man and then the other launched staggering blows. Piet rushed the fight. Erminio beat him back. On came Piet again, pummeling, fighting close. Erminio thumped him solidly. By the 20th round honors stood even. Then Erminio fell upon brave Piet...
Luis Angel Firpo, heavyweight boxing champ of South America, and Erminio Spalla, heavyweight champ of Europe, decided to have a fight at the Football Stadium in Buenos Aires. Benito Mussolini cabled Spalla: "Keep the Italian colors aloft." Thirty thousand Argentinians went out to see the fight. The fighters hit each other for 13 and a fraction rounds, until finally only Firpo hit Spalla, and Spalla sank by the ropes, and they counted...
...Erminio Spalla, European heavyweight champ, sailed from Milan to meet Firpo at Buenos Aires. Spalla won his championship title last summer from Vandeveer, a Dutchman. At the time, Dr. Benito Mussolini saluted Spalla thus: "I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
Most people considered Jack Johnson a cooked coon when the doors of Leavenworth Prison closed behind him. Not so Johnson. He has signed articles to fight Erminio Spalla, Italian champion who aroused Premier Mussolini to ecstatic eulogy, in Newark during the latter part of August. Owing to Johnson's age and his criminal activities, it is doubtful whether the authorities will countenance the bout...
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