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...Brooklyn, Pancho Villa, fighting Filipino and world's flyweight champion, knocked bamtamweight Bud Taylor, Terre Haute Terror, into a cocked hat in 12 rounds...
...first round the flyweight drew blood from the lip of the blond. Each succeeding round Pancho opened up the cut with a clump or a clout and the blood spurted down the Buddy jaw. Each time Bud came back for more punishment, the human flea bit him. But he remained thoroughly game...
...verified a report that I can put my right hand over my left shoulder under my chin and touch my right ear. Next day the World announced that several people-including two members of its own staff-could do similar tricks with their arms and ears." Pancho Villa, flyweight pugilistic champion of the world: "In Manhattan I was served with papers in a $50,000 suit for alienation of the affections of the wife of one Ferman Dantes, who, like myself, comes from the Philippines. He avers that while I boarded with him, up to a few months...
...latter, Carp received $70,000, and Gibbons, $61,781. Cheese Factory. Descamps and Carpentier expect to take their $70,000 and put it into the manufacture of small round wooden cheese boxes. They already have a profitable business in cheese boxes, the demand for which is on the increase. Flyweight...
...Brooklyn, a Filipino (Pancho Villa) won a decision from a Welshman (Frankie Ash) and retained the flyweight (116 pound) boxing championship of the world. The brute strength of Villa failed to crush utterly the clever Ash, frail, skinny, anemic "with arms like pipe-stems and legs like reeds." Though Villa got the decision, Ash got the glory. Villa hewed and hacked, charged, struck blindly. In the second round he opened a cut on Ash's lip; later the blood flowed from the same wound. But Ash, with faultless foot work, danced lightly out of Villa's reach. Only...