Word: knockout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Max Baer, second rate California heavyweight, won a bout from Frankie Campbell, San Francisco Italian, by a knockout. In the second round Baer fell in Campbell's corner, half-slipping, half knocked down. Campbell went to a neutral corner and stood with his back to his fallen opponent, looking out over the crowd. The referee ruled that Baer had slipped, motioned him to get up. Baer rushed across the ring and while Campbell stood with his back turned hit him terrific punches. "I feel as though something in my head had cracked," Campbell told his handlers...
...Primo Camera, 263 lb.: a technical knockout (his sist knockout in the U. S.) in the third round of a scheduled 15-round bout with tattooed Riccardo Bertazzola, 212-lb. "Heavyweight Champion of Italy," at Atlantic City...
...William ("Young") Stribling (188 Ib.) of Georgia: a fight (billed as "World's Heavyweight Championship") with Phil Scott, 206-lb. Britisher; in the second round, by a knockout, after Scott had been down for three counts of nine in the first round; in Wimbledon stadium, England...
...Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: A bout from one Jack McAuliffe, thirteenth set-up of his current tour, in Denver, by a knockout in the first round...
...goals, with a $250,000 string of ponies: their tenth straight game on the Pacific coast against teams of famed U. S. stars including 8-goalers Elmer Boeseke and Eric Pedley. ¶ Primo Camera, Italian brobdingnagian: a bout with one Frank Zavita in Jacksonville, Fla., by a knockout (eleventh by Camera in the U. S.) with a right to the ribs...