Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aplomb. He smiled for the benefit of 25,000 spectators, whenever Sharkey's right hand reached up to graze his lantern jaw. In the fourth round Sharkey, outweighed 261 Ib. to 2021. thought of an old trick, one which would never have fooled a clever or a more experienced fighter. He hit Carnera twice in the middle. When Carnera dropped his hands to protect his body, Sharkey led for Carnera's jaw, reached it with a right hand punch that caused Monster Carnera to give an astonished grunt and collapse...
...Sharkey called in four doctors to attest his injury, demanded a postponement. The postponement was first denied, then granted, to Oct. 12. To disappointed Monster Carnera, deprived of his first real chance to prove the much-ridiculed contention of his manager, Leon See, that Carnera is the greatest heavyweight fighter in history, a substitute for Sharkey was suggested: onetime (1927-29) Light-heavy weight Champion Tommy Loughran, whom Carnera outweighs by 80 Ib. Carnera declined to fight Loughran, said he would fight Sharkey or no one, roared words to the effect that Sharkey was afraid...
...clubman, sportsman, member of a distinguished Harvard family (but he stutters a bit, a disadvantage in a Harvard president); Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams (he probably would not accept); Professor Francis Bowes Sayre of Harvard Law School, personable son-in-law of the late Woodrow Wilson; Cancer Fighter Clarence Cook ("Pete") Little, politically ousted president of the University of Michigan; and Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, official Harvard historian (but these two are considered too "advanced"). Meanwhile, tight-lipped President Lowell, who will be one of the seven to vote for his successor, is said to have...
Died. Col. Charles Stewart Stobie, 86, oldtime Indian fighter; in Chicago. As "Mountain Charlie" he campaigned with William Frederick ("Buffalo Bill") Cody and "Wild Bill" Hickok, later was adopted as a White Ute, retired to paint Indians. To his death he wore his hah long, carried a scar across his back, inflicted by Indians as he lay beleaguered in a buffalo wallow...
...before he makes the conventional gesture of clasping his hands and shaking them over his head. The trick is significant; it seems to be the expression of Celtic characteristics which have endeared him to a public which likes its pugilists Irish. Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle is another kind of fighter. Three years older than McLarnin-26-his face is scarred and flattened by the beatings he has received in the course of a long and intermittently successful career. When they were matched in New York City last week it was their third fight. Petrolle won the first, in Manhattan last...