Word: featherweight
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...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...
Died. James (";Jimmy") De Forest, 68, trainer of boxers; of general complications; in Long Branch. N. J. An unnoted featherweight boxer, he trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...