Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...round by round. A fighter can win a maximum number of five points in each round, points for being the most aggressive, for landing the cleanest punches. In Hartford little Christopher Battalino, local boy with black curly hair, scored 75 points to 56 and won the world's featherweight championship from Windmill André Routis by holding Routis' whirling arms when he got close and hitting him when he backed away...
Much more curdling was this bout than last fortnight's fiasco in Detroit when the welterweight (147 lb.) championship changed hands. In the second round Challenger Jackie Fields (1924 Olympic amateur featherweight winner) jarred the big jaw and midsection of Champion Joe Dundee, who lurched to his hands and knees. He was scarcely up at the count of "nine!" when the fast Fields deposited him again on the canvas. Dundee crawled across the ring. Then he reared swiftly and, as Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made...
...never lost a fight, nor learned to speak English. He fought at 121 lb. last week. Had he weighed three pounds less he might have been declared bantamweight champion of the world, a title at present unassigned. As it is, he is about three fights away from the featherweight title...
...Alumnus Briggs Cunningham. He bought and presented to the school the ring in which Fisticuffer James Joseph Tunney defeated onetime world champion William Harrison Dempsey in Philadelphia (TIME, Oct. 4, 1926). It will be installed in the rambling gymnasium after the basketball season. Here many students, more paperweight than featherweight, will box, mimicking in miniature the giant punches of the champions who once battled there. Here too will box lusty footballers who later may lead teams at Wesleyan, Yale, Princeton...
...Featherweight: Andre Routis, France...