Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...busy week for Ben Miller. On Monday, he punched the bag, skipped rope and shadowboxed through the day in a Times Square gymnasium. Tuesday, he tried out for parts in two movies. That night he climbed into the ring at Newark's Laurel Gardens for a heavyweight fight with a boxer named Willie Huff. Televiewers saw Miller knocked down twice, were spared seeing him knocked out only because of a transmission failure by station WATV...
Anderson, who has been high minute man on the freshman squad in its first two games, won 11 letters at Andover. He played first-string guard for three years, and was co-captain of the Blue last year. He also was a heavyweight wrestler for four years and captained the team his senior year...
...deep rows of private boxes, maintained by Manhattan firms for the pleasure of their customers, and in the special seats reserved for the favored, were the notables, the affluent and the politicians-the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, ex-President Herbert Hoover, Douglas MacArthur, Margaret Truman and Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott. Among them sat the aging stars of past series-Rogers Hornsby, Carl Hubbell, Mel Ott, Frankie Frisch-a shadowy, wistful, watching pantheon...
...Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles made the first big jump up the comeback trail last night with a technical knockout over 23-year-old Rex Layne of Salt Lake City in 2:32 of the 11th round...
...middleweight Army boxer, Eddie Eagan won the championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...