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Welterweights (147 Ibs.) have only one champion, Chicago's clever 27-year-old Barney Ross who has held the title before and since he abdicated his lightweight title two years ago. Current ranking contender is fierce-faced Ceferino Garcia, a Filipino sugar-cane cutter armed with a looping right-hand punch supposedly suggestive of cane cutting and known as the "bolo punch." Two years ago in a nontitle fight Garcia knocked Ross down in the first round, but Ross outboxed him for the decision on that occasion. He did so again in a second (over-the-weight) meeting...
There it was discovered that the assaulter was no ordinary brawler but Manuel Oyon, a onetime Venezuelan judge. The assaulted was General Jorge Garcia, onetime warden of Caracas' infamous Rotunda prison where the late Dictator Juan Vicente ("El Benemerito") Gómez kept Manuel Oyon and many another political prisoner. "He used to torture me!" cried Manuel Oyon. "The mere admission that he served as warden of the Rotunda is sufficient proof," declared his lawyer. While the court tried to decide what to do with Manuel Oyon, who after his release from prison was deported by the present Venezuelan...
...Ricardo Garcia had been the sensation of his year, had won his niche in the matador's hall of fame by his "immortal quite" (series of passes with the cape drawing the bull away from the fallen picador). But at the height of his fame & fortune, he was so badly gored in the lung that he had to quit for the season, later announced his permanent retirement. He continued to live at matador pace, scattering money like crumbs to many a hungry bird. His mistress, Marilena, was Ricardo's greatest expense and biggest trouble. When she saw there...
...Anarchists outstanding in fact if not in title in Barcelona are Buenaventura Durruti and Juan Garcia Oliver, both newly skyrocketed to fame from the looms of Barcelona textile plants. These smooth-shaven, intensely modern young men sufficiently dispose of the Victorian idea that Anarchism is an affair of terrifying beards. As a matter of fact, "The Father of Anarchism," the late great Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who died in 1865 had only a "Newgate Frill" (fringe of whiskers) around his placid countenance. The last of the internationally great Anarchist thinkers, Russian Prince Peter Kropotkin, who was the perfect prototype of "Bearded...
...difference between Catalonia and Russia," reported Mr. Duranty in the New York Times, "was strongly emphasized to me by [Anarchist] Garcia Oliver, a sturdy young man in his early thirties, wearing a militia uniform with a Sam Browne belt and a pistol on his hip. The scene was reminiscent of early revolutionary days in Petrograd...