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...largest grain elevator and merchandising enterprise in the U. S. Snapped the Board of Trade: "Today's action is final and is not subject to review by any other tribunal." But grain traders agreed last week that the event was only the first round of the best knockdown & dragout speculators' battle that has taken place behind the U. S. farmer's barn in many a harvest moon...
High point on the day's card was the slugging match between Shelly Ware of Eliot and Chris Landry of Leverett. It was Ware who scored the only knockdown of the afternoon when he threw his stocky opponent with what looked like a flying mare. Although Landry failed to capitalize on the Elephant's high guarding, he was awarded the decision after three rounds of heavy slugging on both sides...
...since Thomas Montgomery Howell tried unsuccessfully to corner corn six years ago has the Chicago grain market witnessed such a knockdown battle as took place last week. Though the nation's corn bins will soon overflow with the biggest corn crop since 1932, corn supplies last week were very low because last year's carryover was the smallest of this century. With deliveries of September corn futures due on Sept. 30, longs had the best opportunity in many a harvest moon to soak shorts...
...crowd, which had installed Louis as a 1-to-3 favorite but hoped Braddock would win, that knockdown was a happy surprise. It was the last surprise of the fight. Braddock thereafter fought aggressively as he had promised to do. Louis, his confidence restored since his Schmeling defeat, fought as he always does, with a cool, poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from...
Virtue of the loser, Enrico Venturi of Italy, was an unshakable courage that enabled him to rise after a knockdown in the seventh round, win the tenth and twelfth, finish the fight on his feet after another knockdown in the 18th. The winner was Pedro Montanez, nicknamed Don Diablo (Sir Devil), of Puerto Rico. He had exhibited the agility of a hellion dancing on hot coals, a punch as persuasive as a red-hot pitchfork. The fight with Venturi was his 23rd professional appearance in the U. S., his 23rd victory. Almost inevitably it will be rewarded by a chance...