Word: fouling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Love in the Ring (Terra-Ton). Max Schmeling made this picture while he was at home in Germany last year, several months before he won the world's heavyweight championship on a foul from Jack Sharkey in Manhattan (TiME, June 23). One does not have to understand German to follow the occasional dialog sequences, so simple is the story of a fighter momentarily distracted from his boyhood sweetheart by the wiles of attractive Olga Tschechowa. Fighter Schmeling, composed and earnest, is helped through his scenes by considerate direction; he is more convincing when amorous than during a tedious fight with...
...neck immovably in the clinches, jolted him with short rights, stung him with long lefts. In the fifth round Godfrey suddenly and apparently with deliberation hit Carnera low, followed the first bad blow with a long left below the groin. Carnera, writhing in agony, was declared winner on a foul...
...writhing, gripping his groin. Handlers and managers jumped into the ring. Referee Jim Crowley, thin, baldheaded, hatchet-faced, ran from corner to corner, asking the two ring judges what they thought. One judge had not seen the punch. The other, an optometrist named Harold Reade Barnes, insisted it was foul. Accordingly Referee Crowley pushed Sharkey, crestfallen and dismayed, into his corner, declared Schmeling, still unable to stand, the winner...
...punch. ... It was fair. . . . Sharkey really won in my opinion. ..." Mr. Muldoon also said, as one of the trustees of the Tunney-Muldoon trophy symbolical of the world's championship, that Schmeling's name would never be inscribed thereon for a victory won on a foul...
...Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling of Germany: the Heavyweight Championship of the World on a foul by Jack Sharkey...