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...actively annoyed on the slightest provocation and his huge fists contract in his more or less consistent effort to control himself. He trembles on the brink of explosion most of the time. His indignation is righteous and his anger is of the inspiring kind that would end in a knockdown drag-out fight?if he hadn't spent 62 years learning to keep in leash. He collects, as a matter of fact, all manner of weapons and murderous devices. His manners are anything but mild. Only dogs, old ladies and children escape his tongue lashings...
...material for next year by taking the 145-pound event with decisive victories over Murray W. Dewart '37 and Robert S. Russell '35. Peter B. Olney '37 lived up to expectations by outpointing Herman Gross 1L in the final 155-pound match and William C. Brister 2GB scored a knockdown in the final round of the 175-pound finals to boat Gordon F. Robertson '36 for the title...
...nine rounds Loughran stepped away from Sharkey, repeatedly flicking his opponent's face with light jabs which did no damage. In the tenth Sharkey wearily floundered into a stiff right which caught him squarely on the chin. He dropped flat on his face-the first knockdown Loughran had scored in years. He was on his feet before the referee could start to count, attacked Loughran's body savagely for the remaining five rounds, but that one punch cost Sharkey the fight. Two judges disagreed; the referee cast the deciding vote for Loughran because of the knockdown...
...Barbary Coast was doomed in 1911 when California's present Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr. began his first of five terms as San Francisco's mayor. The actual knockdown punch was dealt by Hearst's San Francisco Examiner in a typically furious crusade. The conp-de-grâce came in 1917 when the State Supreme Court upheld a Red-light Abate ment Act, permitting the city to proceed in civil court against owners of property used for immoral purposes. For a few gloomy years "the Coast" tried to subsist on tourist trade by pretending...
...each other, while men in all walks of life entered Kelley and Hayes' Gymnasium at $.25 a head of watch them. Sharkey returned to tape his hands and went on to give his opinion of the Dempsey-Tunney fight at Chicago. "If it hadn't been for the knockdown in the seventh round there wouldn't have been any fight at all. But I think that Tunney could have gotten up on the count of three." (in the seventh round Dempsey had protested a long count over the prostrate Tunney.) "Dempsey couldn't win; he was outclassed. I feel that...