Word: fighter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Death of a Warrior. It was a last revolution for one old fighter, General Francisco Peraza. Even 1895 was no novelty for intrepid General Peraza, who was then 44 years old. He was a 17-year-old "Colonel" in the first war for independence in 1868. He fought through the Spanish-American War as a General. In 1917 he buckled on his ancient horse pistol and went out as a rebel against President Menocal. For this revolution he had made peace with Menocal and joined his forces, partly through a mutual hatred of Machado the Rooster, and partly because...
...says that a good big man can beat a good little one. The fight between Jack Sharkey (Josef Paul Cuckoschay) and Michael Patrick ("Mickey") Walker in Boston last week seemed designed to be one more illustration of this adage. Sharkey, a 198-lb. heavyweight, was still considered a good fighter despite sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack...
Walker, his face intermittently sprayed with blood, fought in the way that has caused him to be called, pound for pound, the best fighter in the world. He bobbed, squirmed, charged, wove, ducked, slammed and smashed at Sharkey, trying to hit his face more than his body. He swung in under Sharkey's high guard with what Westbrook Pegler colorfully called "the simian roll of a vaudeville baboon on roller skates." In the seventh round, a right caught Sharkey on the chin. He went back against the ropes, the crowd roaring...
...Geauga Lake Park, Ohio to Schmeling's training camp at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Here he flew low, shouted: "Yeah, Maxie!" and flew away again. Other exciting training camp incidents were few. Reporters assigned to the Stribling camp were compelled to interview the numerous members of the fighter's family (mother, father, brother...
Forrest was a born fighter; what he had to learn about soldiering he learned at Fort Donelson, Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Hog Mountain, Chickamauga, Brice's Cross-Roads. He had a great contempt for West Pointers. After a disastrous action whose plans he had not approved, his commander, General Stephen D. Lee, called a council of war, asked Forrest if he had any ideas. "Yes, sir," said Forrest. "I've always got ideas, and I'll tell you one thing, General Lee. If I knew as much about West Point tactics as you, the Yankees would whip hell out of me every...