Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eligio Sardinias y Montalvo ("Kid Chocolate"), generally acknowledged featherweight champion of the world, is a wiry, knob-fisted Cuban Negro whose quick, malicious dexterity makes him one of the most exciting fighters in the world to watch. His opponent in Manhattan last week was a serious little Englishman, Seaman Tom Watson, who acquired a strange flat-footed technique by learning to box on the heaving deck of a battleship. The best featherweight in Europe, he began to commute to the U. S. for fights last autumn, returning after each one to tend the Newcastle bar which he bought...
...First was the late James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, son of a San Francisco livery-stable owner. First "Young Corbett" was George Green of San Francisco who thrashed Mysterious Billy Smith for the welterweight championship in 1897. "Terrible Terry" McGovern lost his featherweight championship to the second "Young Corbett" (William Rothwell...
...Tough little Thomas ("Seaman Tom") Watson. British featherweight champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship...
...Manhattan, small Eligio Sardinias ("Kid Chocolate"), Cuban featherweight who looks as though he were made out of varnished ebony matchsticks, was defending his championship against Fidel La Barba, flyweight champion who defaulted his title five years ago to complete his education at Stanford. It was the 12th round and La Barba - who had been steadily pounding his left fist against Chocolate's ribs and getting his own head steadily thumped while doing so - had finally found the opening he wanted. He brought his left fist up, hard, against the point of Chocolate's jaw. Chocolate teetered, rolled...
...crowd thought La Barba had won; the judges thought Chocolate. Sure of his featherweight title, spry Champion Chocolate planned a campaign against light weights, where he can find more worthy opponents, bigger & better "gates...