Word: jacobses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wightman Cup, The only thing that could be said in favor of a weak British team's chances against a strong U. S. team was that none of this year's British players was married and they would therefore, presumably, have no worries about absent husbands. True, two...
The penultimate Jacobs business triumph, which paved the way for his finally leasing the boxing rights at the great Madison Square Garden last week, was his promotion of the Braddock-Louis fight in Chicago last June, first heavyweight championship bout not staged by Madison Square Garden in 18 years. But...
When last year he brought Max Schmeling from Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of...
Habitual million-dollar gates died with Tex Rickard and the Coolidge boom. But Rickard, for all his promotional flair, never made the money out of the fight business that Mike Jacobs has. A peanut peddler and candy butcher on Coney Island excursion boats, Mike Jacobs first began doing business with...
A hard worker at 58, boxing's new Boss Jacobs rises at 7, drives his employes hard. He delights in clambakes and steak dinners at his country place at Fair Haven, N. J. His wife, Josie, likes to entertain his friends. They have no children. He smokes cigarets incessantly...