Word: flyweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bouts in the 125 and 145 classes went by the boards, as Don Thurber of Eliot won the flyweight event by default, for the Elephants only victory, and Leo Kahn took the 145 bout when no opponent showed...
...week staged in Yankee Stadium its third international meet between selected U. S. Golden Glovers and eleven topnotch Italian amateurs. Cabled Il Duce: "Be tenacious, sporty and sprightly. . . ." In flocked some 55,000 fight fans, an estimated 70% of them Italian, began booing when Gavino Matta, Italy's flyweight champion, lost the second bout on the program to pint-sized Negro Bobby Carroll of Trenton. Only knockout of the evening was scored by Willie Smith, Harlem featherweight, who floored courageous Federico Cortonesi three times before the referee intervened in the second round. Otherwise Italian honor was dutifully upheld...
...Benny Lynch, tiny Scotch farmer: the flyweight (112 Ib.) championship of the world; by defeating Benjamin ("Sma11") Montana of Manila, U. S. flyweight champion, in 15 rounds; at London's Wembley Club. Smallest recognized class in prize fighting, established in 1910, flyweights have had only one other recognized world champion, Pancho Villa, who died in 1925. ¶ The Yale swimming team, coached by Bob Kiphuth, who last winter started the practice of observing his squad from the bottom of the pool (TIME, Jan. 20, 1936 ): its 154th consecutive intercollegiate dual meet; 60-to-15 against Pennsylvania, in its debut...
...champion, who was humiliated last fortnight when N. Y. Athletic Commissioners publicly doubted whether he was competent to oppose first-rate U. S. fighters: a 12-round bout-after being knocked down three times in the first two rounds-against sluggish Fidel La Barba, one-time world's flyweight champion, who was a 4-to-1 favorite; in Madison Square Garden. Seaman Tom's reward: a fight against Cuban Kid Chocolate (who was last week being refused entry into the U. S. by immigration authorities), for the featherweight championship of the world...
...Manhattan, small Eligio Sardinias ("Kid Chocolate"), Cuban featherweight who looks as though he were made out of varnished ebony matchsticks, was defending his championship against Fidel La Barba, flyweight champion who defaulted his title five years ago to complete his education at Stanford. It was the 12th round and La Barba - who had been steadily pounding his left fist against Chocolate's ribs and getting his own head steadily thumped while doing so - had finally found the opening he wanted. He brought his left fist up, hard, against the point of Chocolate's jaw. Chocolate teetered, rolled...