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...years ago"). Last week a large number of the spectators thought the decision went to the wrong man. While Sharkey leaned over Schmeling, Announcer Joe Humphreys collected three slips of paper on which the two judges, sitting on opposite sides of the ring, and the referee, long-legged Gunboat Smith, had written down the name of the man they thought had won. One of the judges wrote down "Schmeling. other judge and Gunboat Smith wrote "Sharkey." Most spectators at last week s fight were sitting far back from the ringside. They got a good view of Sharkey's boxing...
...Baker's friends promptly paid. This seemed so easy, the bandits of Kienli kept the money and the Captain, dangled their bait again & again. On one occasion the productive Captain was sent out into the middle of a river while his friends ferried $5.000 ashore from a Chinese gunboat. Then the Captain was jerked back and the gunboat did not dare fire for fear of killing him. Most recent note read: "You can't fool me. If you want to see Baker back I must have...
Died. Paddy Mullins, 70, oldtime boxing manager (Harry Wills, Mike McTigue, Gunboat Smith) of heart disease; in Brooklyn. Having long sought a bout between Wills and Dempsey, Paddy Mullins once accused Dempsey of backing down, called him a liar, offered to thrash...
...with both hands. Battalino tottered back for the first time in the fight. Petrolle followed him, still firing punches. Battalino danced dizzily into the ropes and bounced away reeling, still looking for his man. Before Petrolle could hit the final blow that would do what had seemed impossible, Referee Gunboat Smith stepped between and saved Battalino from going down unconscious...
...punishing his body. His first punch in the second round, on Loughran's mouth, really ended the fight. Loughran got up after a count of eight, went down again immediately from a right to the jaw. When he fell for the third time, dazed and helpless, Referee Gunboat Smith stopped the fight...