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...second and third, Ettore, who had promised to knock Louis into the 15th row, courageously belabored his opponent's ribs, caused the expression of pained bewilderment that Louis wore throughout the Schmeling fight to cross his face again. In the fourth, a Louis right produced another knockdown. Still dizzy, Ettore went down again in the fifth. When the referee counted him out, Manager Tendler helped him to his corner...
Ever since Amoskeag closed down last autumn leading Manchester businessmen have worked hard to get the mills going again, under the same or different management. In the event of a knockdown sale these gentlemen apprehended mighty Amoskeag converted into junk, providing neither jobs for Manchester workers nor business for them. Fortnight ago a citizens' committee headed by Manchester's onetime Mayor Arthur Edmond Moreau decided to buy the plant themselves, sell all or any part to manufacturers who would guarantee...
...absence from the ring, Fisticuffer Sharkey came cautiously out of his corner in New York's Yankee Stadium, dabbed tentatively at his opponent until Louis' right fist exploded on his jaw. Thereafter his efforts, devoted exclusively to self-defense, were even less successful. Louis scored two knockdowns in the second round, two more in the third. After the fourth knockdown Fisticuffer Sharkey shook his head, removed his rubber mouth-guard, lay down while the referee counted him out. Next day. sports writers told what they thought had happened: Fisticuffer Louis had resumed functioning as a "superfighter...
...stool in the corner, walked across the ring. The Negro knocked him down, first with a solid left hook to the chin for a referee's count of two, then, when Levinsky got up, three times more, for counts of five, five and four. After the fourth knockdown, instead of falling on the floor, Levinsky collapsed on the ropes in the corner of the ring. Dazed and beaten, he muttered something which the referee mercifully took for a superfluous confession that the fight was over...
Princes Andreja and Tomislav of Jugoslavia were indulging in a knockdown & drag-out fight in the Royal Palace at Belgrade last week when His Majesty Peter II poked his head into the Royal nursery...