Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government's monopoly suit against the International Boxing Club and Madison Square Garden, a U.S. attorney introduced a terse memorandum, penned in 1949 by the Garden's president (now board chairman), Brigadier General (ret.) John Reed Kilpatriclc. Its gist: longtime (1937-49) Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis had tried to pry a tax-free $100,000 under-the-table bonus from the Garden brass for a 1949 defense of his crown (Joe retired before the fight ever materialized). The plum would not have helped Louis much. No hand at finance, drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken...
...HEAVYWEIGHT TRAINS, almost three times heavier than new lightweight trains now in vogue, will be put on the road by the Santa Fe. Despite lightweight hoopla, Santa Fe will spend $13 million to equip its El Capitan streamliner with 47 "hi-level" cars two feet higher than conventional coaches, will seat passengers on a deck eight feet above wheels...
Favored Yale meets the third-seeded Crimson varsity heavyweight crew, and Princeton faces the varsity 150's in a toss-up at the E.A.R.C. Sprints at Washington, D.C. and Princeton, New Jersey, tomorrow...
...varsity heavyweight crew will meet Princeton, M.I.T., and Boston University in the third heat tomorrow...
...Champ. Magnanimously, Rocky suggested that ancient (42) Archie Moore, his last victim, has the best chance to take over his title. It is as good a guess as any, and considering the source, perhaps the best. The list of heavyweight contenders is a list of palookas. Hurricane Jackson, an ill wind from New York, Bob Baker, a pudge-pot from Pittsburgh, Johnny Holman a clown from Chicago, are the three top contenders, and a good kangaroo ought to be able to outwit any one of them for the title. Aside from Moore, the only real fighter with the skill...