Word: joey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little Tony, Tough Tony, Fat Tony, Tony Boy, Tony the Bum, Tony the Sheik, Tony the Geep, Tony Bananas and Tony Cheese; Frankie the Bug, Frank the Wop, Frank the Boss and Big Frank; Hoboken Joe, Joe from Pelham Bay, Crazy Joey, Joe Palisades and Staten Island Joe; Charlie Bullets and Charlie the Blade; Trigger Mike, Skinny Mike and Black Mike; Black Jim, Jimmy Blue Eyes, Jimmy the Blond and Jimmy the Sniff; Johnny Bath Beach and John the Bug; Mr. Gribs and The Gap, Kid Blast and The Sidge; The Sheik and The Cat; Benny the Bum, Teddy...
Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami...
...week tap-tapping across a nightclub stage were rubbery now, and the speed was gone from the fists that won 153 fights and six world championships. In Philadelphia's Convention Hall last week, Sugar Ray Robinson, 43, meekly absorbed the taunts of beetle-browed Middleweight Joey Giardello, 32. "Boy, are you getting old," gibed Giardello. "Hah!" he laughed, when Robinson threw a pawing punch. "I was waitin' for that...
...flunkies fanned his flab, Ray Robinson grimaced sadly: his $14,500 purse had been attached by federal taxmen. "I am tired and I want to think about my future," he said. Across the way, Giardello was trying to be generous. "He hit pretty good with the left hook," laughed Joey. Then he turned serious. "You know something? He must've been a great fighter once." Once, long...
Playing in spite of a painful shoulder separation. Wood was fifth in team scoring this season with 17 points and 14 goals. Senior Joey Prahl was the only midfielder to outscore the six-foot junior during the Crimson's 12-game season...