Word: featherweight
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Sniffed Dr. Summerskill, with the age old confidence of a real pro: "I regard Mr. Solomons as a featherweight. I think he ought to discuss the matter with [my last opponent], who left Fulham immediately after the contest." The early betting odds suggested a general lack of confidence in Promoter Solomons' ability to protect his sphenoidal ridge...
...while he cuffed, punched and elbowed him to defeat. Going into last week, he had fought 189 fights and lost only five of them. Moreover, on the record, the only man of modern times who could beat Willie was the man who took away Willie's title of Featherweight (126 Ibs.) Champion of the World three years ago, Sandy Saddler. Last week, as part of his announced program of keeping in trim for another bout with Sandy one of these days, Old Master Pep, 31, stepped into the ring with a youngster named Lulu Perez, 20, who a year...
...Boston, Lightweight Champion Jimmy Carter successfully defended his title against hapless Featherweight Tommy Collins (see RADIO & TV). ¶At Las Vegas, competing against a topflight field of 19 tournament winners, Golfer Al Besselink of Grossinger, N.Y. took the $35,000 Tournament of Champions first prize of $10,000 with an 8 under...
...blood and brutality took place, not on a crime show or a western film, but in the lightweight championship fight between Challenger Tommy Collins, 133 Ibs., and Champion Jimmy Carter, 135 Ibs., televised over NBC from the Boston Garden. After two relatively even rounds, Carter hit Collins (an overblown featherweight) a hard left to the jaw. For an instant, Collins remained dazedly upright; then he fell backward to the canvas as if poleaxed...
...interim" world featherweight (126 Ibs.) championship was settled last week in Paris. With the champion, Pvt. Sandy Saddler, as a ringside spectator, Philadelphia Negro Percy Bassett pounded France's Ray Famechon into submission with a fourth-round technical knockout. Famechon was not the only loser. French bookies, who backed their favorite against the weight of the money bet at the fight, lost an estimated 800 million francs ($2,288,000) on the fight...