Word: fistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While traveling, Nat Fleischer also collected-158 watches and 142 pairs of gloves of various fistic greats, a punching bag used by John Morrissey, who was the only prize fighter of repute ever elected (1867-71 from New York) to Congress, the stovepipe hat Bob Fitzsimmons wore on entering the U.S. from Australia in 1890, detailed records of 30,000 fighters, from Jim Figg (the first world champion, in 1719) to Joe Louis...
...will probably enter the ring a better man than last time. Army life has put him in the pink of condition, added 15 Ib. to his weight of a year ago (when he weighed 174 to Louis' 200). At 24, he should be at the peak of his fistic career. Always slow at getting himself into fighting shape, Louis has been hindered, not helped, by the cavalry. Used to training for six weeks or more, he may find four weeks too short to get his fill of roadwork before starting to sharpen his timing...
...Boxing last week got an authoritative bible. To commemorate the 200th anniversary of Briton John Broughton's first code of the "squared circle" (later amended by the revised London Prize Ring Rules and the Marquis of Queensberry code), Broadway's dynamic little Nat Fleischer, No. 1 U.S. fistic authority, published the All-Time Ring Record Book...
...Louis' fistic career terminates next week, ten fabulous years of a big coffee-colored boy's life will end. Ten years ago, Joe Louis Barrow was a Detroit ragamuffin, toting ice for fly-by-night icemen to earn a few pennies to keep his feet in shoes. Transplanted from an Alabama cotton patch at the age of 12, the strapping, slow-thinking boy, only two generations away from slavery, had found himself a misfit in city schools where his classmates were nearly half his age. He never got beyond the fifth grade...
Winthrop, Kirkland, and Eliot Houses carried off the lion's share of the glory in the recent intramural boxing tourney, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday in the Indoor Athletic Building, and the entry list of 42 showed an increase or ten over last year's House fistic program...