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...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 below the groin. Carnera, writhing in agony, was declared winner on a foul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fights | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...hard four times on the jaw. Schmeling wobbled to the ropes, covered his face with his elbows, weathered the round. In the fourth he rushed at Sharkey as the latter led a hard uppercut at his body. As the punch landed. Schmeling fell forward, 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sharkey v. Schmeling | 6/23/1930 | See Source »

...TIME, Nov. 4, 1929, et seq.), he has been a favorite subject for speculative diagnosis with the Viennese psychiatrists, who gather nightly to drink coffee with whipped cream at the Cafe Siller on the Franz Josef Quai. Many and ingenious have been the explanations of why H. R. H. groin-kicked the driver of a taxi with which he had collided (TIME, Dec. 30). First Viennese psychiatrist to issue his ideas to the press was Dr. Erwin Wexburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Frustrated Regent | 4/28/1930 | See Source »

Sidney Franklin (real name: Frumkin), Brooklyn matador, was tossed high, gored badly in the groin by a big, black, sharp-horned bull, in his second appearance this season at Madrid. Week before last he killed four animals in one afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 24, 1930 | 3/24/1930 | See Source »

...keep the Holland House Hotel from looking like the Park Central. It is an exciting and fairly credible melodrama distinguished by Powell's fine performance. Best shot: Gambler Powell coming out of the hotel where he has been shot, bent over, staggering, with his hand pressed to his groin, while the hotel employes laugh at him as just another drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 17, 1930 | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

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