Word: featherweights
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...ever done so before, attended the horse show; one of them was Senor Aime F. Tschiffely, who three years and four months ago set out from the Argentine to ride to the U. S.; Peter Manning, the greatest trotting horse in the world, slapped around the ring pulling a featherweight two-wheel sulky; and the German Army team rode and jumped better than all others...
...winnahhh . . . a new champiawn. . . ." A little fellow to be proclaimed in so huge a voice, he bowed gaily to the audience and hopped out of the ring, the world's featherweight champion. His name was Andre Routis; he had just completed 15 rounds of infighting against spry Tony Canzoneri. Frenchmen fight with their feet, it is said; but Routis had held his elbows pointed in front of him and his gloves near his ears as he moved in to claw Canzoneri's belly. Canzoneri, after winning the first rounds, had been gradually gutted in this routisserie; a game...
...kept the battle, head jarred, hands jabbing. After a swirling fifteenth round the bell jangled with each man exhausted on his feet. Judges and referee returned a sharply disputed verdict. Benny Bass, coldly courageous, no quitter, vanished wearily to his dressing-room, loser of the world's featherweight championship.* Tapped and fondled by the official doctor, he was declared to be suffering from a probable fracture of the collarbone. Bass had fought through some ten rounds of one of the most vicious featherweight combats in memory with the jabbing agony of a fractured bone fighting his savage adversary...
...Featherweight (126) Tony Canzoneri...
...clippings told of brutal, better days when Griffo fought four champions, George Dixon, Kid Lavigne, Jack McAuliffe, Joe Gans. Griffo never met a better fighter except alcohol. On the day of his fight with Dixon for the featherweight championship (Griffo weighed 120) he disappeared; was snatched out of a saloon late in the afternoon; boiled out in a Turkish bath; held Dixon to a desperate draw...