Word: godfrey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sharkey's best fight was a ten-round, uphill, slugging match with George Godfrey, giant Californian negro. Godfrey's immense size and his reputation for viciousness had kept the other heavy-weight contenders dodging him. Sharkey entered the ring, giving away 44 pounds in weight, four to five inches of height, and nearly three inches in reach. He says he battled through the ten rounds "not knowing what it was all about," until his hand was raised...
...Philadelphia. Primo Carnera, Italian behemoth, stood up straight as his first dangerous U. S. opponent, George Godfrey, 249 Ib. Leiperville, Pa., Negro, wove toward him with a yellow smile, shuffling his feet and feinting in a manner to which he had been tutored by onetime Negro heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson. Carnera was puzzled in the first round but thereafter held Godfrey's 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...
June 23-Primo Camera v. George Godfrey; at Philadelphia National League ball park, Philadelphia...
Carnera fought in Detroit last week, where he has not been suspended. Opponent was K. O. Christner, tough Akron rubber maker, who fought well against Jack Sharkey and Tom Heeney. Carnera knocked Christner out in the fourth round. On June 23 in Philadelphia Carnera meets George Godfrey, 222-lb. Negro, whom white heavyweight challengers have consistently avoided...
THIS AFTERNOON HARVARD TUFTS Mays, s.s. s.s., Ingalls Nugent, 2b. 3b., Ockert McGrath, c.f. c.f., Haber Ticknor, l.f. c., Arlanson Wood, 1b. r.f., Godfrey Des Roches, 3b. 1b., McCarthy Huxtable or A. Lupien, r.f. 2b., Kennedy Fincke, c. l.f., F. Lupien MacHale or Devens, p. p., Adams