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...unexpectedly acquired, was the job of the Irish champion's Jewish manager, wily little Joe Gould. An unemployed dockworker a few months before he won the title, Braddock has since totally refrained from fighting while making $150.000 out of exhibition bouts, refereeing, sales of a parlor game called Knockout...
...first appointee was Bill Hawkins, out of Springfield, Mo. by way of the Louisville Courier-Journal. Next year reorganization carried them into the United Press together. There for 13 years they perfectly complemented each other. UP's President Howard might be in London getting the historic 1916 "knockout" interview from David Lloyd George, or in Brest getting the equally historic false Armistice report from Admiral Wilson. UP's Vice President & General Manager Hawkins kept his two big, reliable feet on the ground at headquarters in Manhattan, saw that all the bases were scrupulously and soundly tagged...
...Brown. Prizefight reporters, hero worshippers by nature and naturally gullible, promptly hailed Louis, as they had hailed dozens of other promising fighters, as a coming champion. Louis failed to belie his billing as promptly as his predecessors. Matched with Primo Camera, tottering but still formidable, he won by a knockout in the sixth round...
...directed to Matchmaker Pete Moran. After one look at Haynes's powerful 6-ft. frame, a glance at his record of fights on the Pacific Coast, Moran retired as a matchmaker, became Haynes's manager. Since then, Haynes has had 14 fights, won ten of them by knockouts. Joe Louis knocked out Primo Camera in six rounds. Haynes did it in three last March. On the ground that this performance was worth repeating with more ballyhoo, Haynes and Camera were rematched. Last week, after Haynes had been carefully studied by boxing experts, photographed with Champion Braddock feeling...
...KNOCKOUT - Charles Francis Coe - Lippincott ($2). Fight-addicts may enjoy this saga of an honest boxer who keeps his heart pure in a crooked game...