Word: featherweight
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...crowd had gone to see a prize fight. More than that, they had gone to cheer a gallant little Negro: spindle-shanked, kinky-haired Henry Armstrong. Two years ago, at 25, Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie...
...years ago Henry Armstrong held the world's featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles-a record unmatched by any other fighter, white or black. He renounced his featherweight crown, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. But he had kept his welterweight title against all comers-19 of them...
...skinny Texan - who had come out of the sticks two months ago to blast the lightweight crown off Lou Ambers' head- suddenly lost his sting. From then on, it was Armstrong's show. Putting on the famed hammering act that once won three world's titles (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight) within eleven months, he plopped Jenkins to the floor once in the fourth round, twice in the fifth, three times in the sixth. Just before the bell rang for the beginning of the seventh round, the "best lightweight since Benny Leonard" collapsed, toppled off his stool...
Millard Fillmore Hopper learned his first checkers in a Greenwich Village recreation centre while his friend from around the block, Gene Tunney, was learning to box. Big Gene Tunney retired as heavyweight champion of the world in 1928. Featherweight Millard Hopper, at 43, is still going strong as unrestricted ("go-as-you-please"*) checker champion of the U. S. Last summer at the New York World's Fair he set up a booth, took on all comers, sometimes a dozen at a time, played some 5,000 games, lost three...
...Koufman, another capable end makes his appearance on the Varsity squad after a long injury. He is Gene Lovett, a teammate of Koufman's on the 1937 Yardlings. Levett weighs 198, and is 6 feet, 1 inch tall. Like Koufman, his bulk is expected to stabilize the hitherto featherweight wing squad...