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...steel-plated. Methodical and earnest, he waited for Chocolate to tire, held his own till the tenth round. Then, overestimating Chocolate's fatigue, he backed away from a clinch with his hands down. Chocolate saw his chance and took it with a left swing at Watson's jaw that sent him rolling into a corner of the ring, left him groggy for the rest of the round...
...Isaiah Faddis came home to his Washington apartment he opened the door on a young burglar. The burglar pointed a pistol at Representative Faddis, told him in a rich Southern accent to put up his hands. Faddis took one step forward, swung his fist against the burglar's jaw, knocking him down, jarring him loose from his pistol. Mr. Faddis then called police who took the young man, one Clarence Roberts, 17, to the hospital...
Charles Edwin Mitchell, onetime head of National City Bank, wearing a short black coat, grey striped trousers, handkerchief in breast pocket, his granite jaw set, his fierce eyes peering intently from beneath his big brow crowned with a stiff brush of upstanding grey hair, was on trial for alleged evasion of income taxes: 1) in 1929 by making a fictitious sale of 18,300 shares of National City stock to his wife to establish a loss of $2,872,000, thereby avoiding a tax of $728,000; 2) in 1930 by making a fictitious sale to William D. Thornton, president...
...owners feel that in the long run they harm the game. Feuds between clubs are likely to last a long time. Last week's fight was really an aftermath of a squabble last summer when Carl Reynolds of the Senators crashed into Yankee Catcher Bill Dickey, got his jaw broken in the fisticuffs that followed. American League rule for "unprovoked assault" is 30 days suspension, $1,000 fine. Last week President William Harridge sus- pended Whitehill, Myer and Chapman for five days each, fined each $100, warned all players in his league that "further disturbances will be punished...
...broken collar bone that I smashed on the first night. But I took my prettiest spill right here in Boston. I was trying out the Arena track before a grind when I fractured my skull, broke my nose, cracked my collar bone, cut my face badly, and busted my jaw in three places. I didn't enter that race...