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Last week was the busiest of the season for peewee pugilistic pundits. On the same program as the Canzoneri v. Ambers fight was one between the New York State Athletic Commission's nominee for world's featherweight champion, Mike Belloise, and England's Dave Crowley. It ended in the ninth round when the referee refused to allow Crowley's claim of foul, counted him out instead. Four nights before in Manhattan, fiery little Sixto Escobar of Puerto Rico improved his claim to the world's bantamweight title by forcing his opponent, Pittsburgh's Tony...
...prime exception to the rule that boxing champions defend their titles as seldom as possible is 25-year-old Freddie Miller. No. 1 featherweight. A stoop-shouldered left-hander with considerable ability, he has whipped 19 challengers since 1933. Three times he beat Petey Sarron, a tough little Syrian from Birmingham, Ala. who. at 28, is an experienced oldster in the ring...
Great-Great-Granduncle Tom Molineaux, a brother of John Henry Lewis' great-great-grandfather, was by no means the only fighter in his descendants' lineage. John Henry Lewis inherited his profession more directly from a grandfather, who was a heavyweight, his father, who was a featherweight. Two brothers are also prizefighters. Practicing his profession, Lewis' father migrated from Ohio to Los Angeles, trekked back to Phoenix, Ariz., where he opened a gymnasium and taught boxing. John Henry Lewis was ready to enter his father's business at 16. He did so without the preface, customary...
Substitute for Murder (by William Jourdan Rapp & Leonards Bercovici; William Harris Jr., producer) will probably win no championships even in the featherweight division. Originally titled Oedipus Wrecks, it concerns a pair of mischievously psychopathic youngsters who resent the appreance of a prospective stepfather, fill him full of liquor, send him up as a stowaway on an endurance flight. But the stowaway comes down, thus definitely deflating the younsters' scheme and, incidentally, Substitute for Murder...
...football team, Slade Cutter, fighting as a heavyweight, knocked out Virginia's Fred Cramer in half a minute. Another Navy footballer, George Lambert, outpointed his opponent in three rounds but when the evening was over Virginia's record was intact. Co-captains Bantamweight Archie Hahn and Featherweight Gordon Rainey had beaten Navy men with ease and the final score - after a draw in the 155-lb. class-was 4½-to-3½. For the third consecutive year Virginia had beaten Navy...