Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aging (30), beaten fighter had to lie across three wooden folding chairs. He had a bloodstained towel around his head, and he pressed an ice bag against a puffing eye. Except for a short-lived moment four years ago when some thought he had the stuff to go somewhere, Heavyweight Bob Baker, a huge, long-muscled young man from Pittsburgh, had been nothing but a ham-and-egg fighter. Last week, whipped by flashy Eddie Machen, 25, Baker realized that after 59 pro bouts, his pantry was empty...
...playing up the fact that Cheasty once worked for a Florida legislative commission dealing with a Negro bus boycott, Williams skillfully managed to make him appear anti-Negro. Heightening the picture, ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, a Detroit acquaintance of Fight Fan Hoffa, turned up as a visitor to the courtroom. Every now and then Joe helpfully left his spectator's seat to chat with Hoffa at the defense table. The Justice Department countered by bringing in a Negro attor ney to sit at the prosecution table, but he was no match...
...Carnegie Lake. But Yale's two feet of lead seemed too much for the Big Red to erase. Then, ten strokes from the finish, Cornell's all-senior eight found strength for a final spurt. Their shell slid across the line inches in front to win the heavyweight sprint championships of the Eastern Association of Rowing Colleges...
...Yardling eight fared the best of any of the heavyweight crews for the Crimson as it won its morning heat over Syracuse and then went on to finish a strong second behind a good Yale boat...
...heavyweight sprints will be run off by a series of four three-boat semifinals, the winners of which will meet in the finals. The Crimson crews fared reasonably well in the drawing last Tuesday as the varsity will face Navy and M.I.T., while the JV's are scheduled to meet Syracuse and Dartmouth in the opening rounds...