Word: jims
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after they acquired their titles. Accordingly Sam dug along fighting second raters for small money. Joe Jeanette, also a Negro, was his usual opponent. They fought more than 20 battles, Langford winning the majority. The one man in the world that Langford did not care to meet was Jim Jeffries. Even when Jeffries was slipping back Sam used to say: " Ah'll take 'em all, but doan gimme none ub dat big hairy boy." There are those who say that Langford at his best would have defeated the Dempsey of Toledo and of Thirty Acres...
Langford is the last bridge between the old school champions and the new. He is a little man. In his time heavyweight champions were not the giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd...
...this Mr. Jim Blake, of Glens Falls, New York, writing in The Outlook, would reply that the Admiral overlooks the claims of pig iron. Pig iron doesn't relish its limitations. It would like nothing better than an infusion of tungsten. And it suffers when it is told to stay pig. Mr. Blake refers particularly to Dartmouth, which, since it has launched upon a career of excellence, has been quite tactless in its expulsions. Nearly 300 Sophomores and Juniors, as well as Freshmen, were expelled last midyear. "It was pitiful," says Mr. Blake, "to see the distress. Some were...
...cinema calcium, Walter Hagen has won three southern tournaments in two short weeks. In each of the three he has established local records. The first was Belleair; the second, Asheville; the third, the North and South championship at Pinehurst. To defeat a field which included Cyril Walker, Jim Barnes and Jock Hutchison (who finished in the order named) Hagen was forced to a record-breaking 289 for 72 holes...
...certainly is not standing on its head. It does not help in the recovery to call up all the symptoms of temporary relapse. As the Hooster farmer remarked to his assistant on the two man saw, "I don't mind you're riding on it, Jim, but I wish you wouldn't drag your feet...