Word: kids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Dad horns in and says, "Milk, hell, that kid is crying for TIME...
...first two rounds, The Kid did just what the experts had said he would: he jabbed and danced away like an elusive shadow. He was so nervous he even tripped and fell. In the third round, after Louis had nailed him but failed to knock him down, Conn began to grin scornfully at the champ...
...fourth, The Kid began to tattoo the champion with lightning-quick pokes. Oldtimers were reminded of onetime Light-Heavyweight Champion Jack Delaney, the "rapier of the north," who used to fight like a twinkle-toed fencer, but The Kid didn't taunt his opponent as much as usual (Said he afterward: "I didn't have so much time to talk. But I talked to him a couple of times. Once I says to him: 'Joe, you're in for a tough night.' And Joe, he says to me: 'Ah knows...
...twelfth round, Conn's sustained attack had the crowd on its feet, yelling. It was terrific. The fleet-fisted kid had confounded, dumfounded and dazed the greatest champion since Dempsey. On most ringside cards he was leading on points. Louis was obviously worried...
Aglow with confidence, Conn came out for the 13th round. "I got you, Joe," he had taunted. But the champ was not the champ for nothing. And The Kid was still a kid. Instead of continuing to jig & jab, Conn did just what he had been warned not to do: he sailed into shufflin' Joe, began swapping punches. This was what the cool-headed champ had been waiting for. Before the swaggering youngster knew what had struck him, he was staggering under a bombardments of rights & lefts. Two seconds before the bell, he was curled up on the canvas...