Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan. Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, Featherweight Champion of the World, offered a merciless display of fistic pyrotechnics upon the body of an ron-jawed, rock-gutted youth from New Orleans, one William Kennedy. For twelve rounds Kennedy kept coming in, jerking his head from side to side under the champion's sharpshooting, his red eyes glazed and almost sightless under the fire of the electric torches; kept coming in, while Kaplan, irritated by his resistance, clubbed remorseless blows to the body, sent jabs flickering to his bloody mouth: kept coming in. . . At the end of the fight, Kennedy was still...
Died. Jem Driscoll, 44, famed boxer, onetime British featherweight champion; in Cardiff, Wales, of tuberculosis of the lungs following pleurisy and pneumonia...
...referee, sorry for the battered little man, had been watching for the towel. As it struck, he stepped between the fighters. Friends rushed to the little man - he was a Featherweight Danny Kramer of Philadelphia- and helped him to his corner, beaten. The human whirlwind- he was Featherweight Louis ("Kid") Kaplan of Meriden, Conn.-stood panting but jubilant while they raised his right hand aloft and declared that, by a technical knockout, he was winner, he was world's featherweight champion...
...harness racing. Their winnings aggregated nearly two million. He was a seasoned driver in the high-wheeled sulky days of Maude S. and Jay-Eye-See and created a sensation in 1892 by driving Nancy Hanks a mile in 2 :04 hitched to the new ball-bearing, pneumatic tire, featherweight sulky. In 1893, he drove three horses abreast, hitched to a high-wheeled skeleton wagon, a mile in 2:14. He held the world records for a trotted mile, two miles, three miles, other distances, and several pacing records...
Flyweight 108-112 Pancho Villa Bantamweight 116-118 Abe Goldstein Featherweight 122-126 Lightweight 133-135 Benny Leonard Welterweight 142-147 Mickey Walker Middleweight 158-160 Harry Greb Lightheavyweight 175 Mike McTigue (Cruiser) Heavyweight unlimited Jack Dempsey