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...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...
...York and Pennsylvania, Midget Wolgast is flyweight champion of the world because he won an elimination tournament sanctioned by the boxing boards in those States. Everywhere else Frankie Genaro, elderly and cautious Italian, is champion. Last week in Madison Square Garden the two champions sparred 15 rounds to decide it once for all. Wolgast flopped his long hair up and down, bounced off the ropes, flickered his harmless sewing-machine-needle left with no results. He won four rounds and began to tire. Genaro hit him twice in the left eye with a punch supposed to be fatal...
...28?Flyweight title bout between Midget Wolgast of Philadelphia and Frankie Genaro of New York; at Madison Square Garden. Manhattan...
...Coster's gym in Philadelphia. He started to fight, changed his name to Midget Wolgast. Last week in Madison Square Garden he climbed into a ring and sat down facing a little Negro laconically known as Black Bill, the other finalist in a tournament conducted to decide the flyweight championship of New York and Philadelphia...
...then flashed them up in furious rataplans to Black Bill's stomach and head. He won the championship. The crowd that cheered the decision went out comparing him to famed tiny fighters of the past-Midget Smith, Abe Attell, little Jack Sharkey-saying that once more the flyweight division was established as something...