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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meyers Wilson ("K. O.") Christner, a little stolid and very solid, had knocked out 37 fisticuffers in 44 bouts. But he was almost unheard of east of Akron, Ohio, and west of the Mississippi River, until he demolished Knute Hansen and was signed up to fight Josef Paul Cukoschay ("Jack Sharkey") in Madison Square Garden last week...
Actually, last week, Christner gave Sharkey about two dozen good, annoying pokes. Sharkey outboxed Christner and poked him hard during the last four rounds. Sharkey got the judges' decision and the crowd's boos.* He will also get $100,000 for the Stribling fight...
Readers of the Christian Herald were not surprised to learn that their weekly had chosen to honor Bishop Cannon. The Christian Herald, too, trains its cannons against the wets. It prints High-and-dry editorials such as the following: "The Christian Herald is in this Prohibition fight to the finish. . . . The minds of America's younger generation need to be carried back to pre-Prohibition days to insure that they will understand the transformation which the Eighteenth Amendment has wrought." Editor High pays $5 to anyone who will write a brief authentic article revealing the degradation of drunkenness, the benison...
Nine rounds having been fought (TIME, Jan. 28), the fight to a finish between John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Col. Robert Wright Stewart, minority stockholder and big board-chairman, respectively, of Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, continued last week as follows...
...office boys." Increasingly, during the last two years, have Standard Oil of Indiana and Standard Oil of New Jersey become competitors, invaded each other's territory both in the U. S. and abroad. The New Jersey company is a Rockefeller stronghold. Hence, the result of the Rockefeller-Stewart fight in the Indiana Company may be of far more than man-to-man significance...