Word: featherweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
Senator Tobey, by underlining the absurdities of the Flynn and Brown testimonies and by keeping these witnesses from wandering off on philosophical tangents, did quite a bit to convince his colleagues that the evidence was featherweight. And Saltonstall in his introduction of Conant clearly stated the President's qualifications, both of experience and character. Of course, the committee's confirmation was finally unanimous, but just as important, the two senators convinced the committee that there was not the slightest doubt about its decision...
...Winner of the world's featherweight, welterweight and lightweight titles...