Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best boxing of the afternoon was displayed in the bout in which Simboli defeated Edward B. Cochran '38. Fighting in the 135 pound class, both men showed praiseworthy fight and skill for all three rounds. Another hard fight was staged between Edward H. Ahrens '37 and Latady. At the end of three rounds, this match was declared a draw, so the contestants went into a fourth round slugfest which Ahrens carried until the last few seconds, when Latady, with crushing left and right hooks to the head, landed enough blows to swing the decision in his favor...
Virtue of the loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...
Cool and impassive in the ring, Devil Montanez is impatient, ferocious, temperamental to a degree outside of it. Last week he invited hundreds of denizens of New York's Negro and Spanish quarter, where he lives, to a "victory ball" at 50? and 75? a head. Before the fight he had decorated a hall with huge banners proclaiming his triumph...
Italian opponents are lucky for Don Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months...
...Spain sailed Novelist Ernest Hemingway to cover the Loyalists' side of the fighting for North American Newspaper Alliance, and Matador Sidney Franklin of Brooklyn to fight bulls...