Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion's manager, a gunman named Turkey Morgan (Humphrey Bogart). The likelihood that Ward will enable him to accomplish this by repeating his hotel-room knockout is endangered when Nick suspects his protege of an intrigue with Fluff. Now intent on revenging himself on his own fighter, Nick sends Ward into the ring with instructions calculated to allow the champion, whose manager has been informed of the plan, to win. Halfway through the fight, Fluff and Nick's sister (Jane Bryan), with whom Ward is actually in love, convince Nick of his error. Nick then reverses his signals...
...Ambrosio (Lou Ambers) and Tony Canzoneri began fighting each other in 1931. They fought several rounds every day. Canzoneri, then lightweight champion, was training for an important bout and Ambers was his sparring partner. When Canzoneri finished training and his sparring partner went on to become a fighter famed in his own right, the Canzoneri v. Ambers combat, instead of ending, became intensified. When they met for the lightweight championship in 1935, Canzoneri won. When they met again last September, Ambers won. Last week, in Madison Square Garden, they fought for the championship once more. This time, the sparring partner...
...always seemed to me that a picture taken of a fighter at the end of a fight is more newsworthy than a posed photo showing him sleeked, shaved, unmarked and I never could understand how Jack Dempsey, with his penchant for collecting black eyes in matched pairs always managed to put off the "boys with the cameras" until the shiners had disappeared. . . . L. BERGAN...
Dempsey's willingness to take punishment while he forced his openings earned him more than the average fighter's quota of black eyes. In 1926 he cheerfully allowed his Tunney shiner to be photographed...
...ancestor referred to is Captain Michael Cresap. No one has an ancestor in whom he takes more pride than I take in Captain Michael. He was an Indian fighter of rare courage. He took part in Dunmore's War in 1774 and drove the Indians from the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania back into Ohio. At the treaty of peace, Cresap was accused of having murdered the family of a friendly Indian named Logan. He paid no attention to the charges and soon was summoned to raise a company of riflemen for the Revolutionary War. His company marched...