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...just before the bell but had sense enough to box his way through the third round. In the fourth Schaaf's huge right fist, hard and heavy as a stone, dropped him again. By the time the fifth round was over, the Pole was clearly ready for a knockout. Ready to supply it, Schaaf rushed out of his corner in the sixth, battered Poreda's head with left hooks, then landed one more smashing right. This time Poreda stayed down for nine full seconds. When he lurched up, still stubborn enough to be smashed once more, Referee Arthur...
Died. Daniel H. Hickey, 56, trainer of boxers (Robert Fitzsimmons, Paul Berlenbach, Mike McTigue, Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson); of septic poisoning from an infected tooth; in Jackson Heights, N. Y. Sparring on the stage with Fitzsimmons, he accepted a knockout blow in the same place twice daily until, dazed, he asked Fitzsimmons to hit him on the other side of the head. Still dazed, he left the stage, died rich from managing Berlenbach...
...trained Leach Cross, Frankie Burns, Joe Shevlin. Charlie White. Norman Selby ("Kid McCoy"), "Pal" Moore, Ted ("Kid") Lewis, Jack Dempsey, Luis Angel Firpo. Little Trainer De Forest was the model for all trainers: capable of savage scorn, furious calm and a disarming mildness in handling fighters. Describing a knockout blow, he once said. "It just makes you dumb and useless and sort of discouraged. You don't feel...
...Baer, cocky California heavyweight, vaguely rated third in U. S. prize fighting (after Sharkey and Schmeling): a technical knockout in the seventh round of a clowning fight against Gerald Ambrose ("Tuffy") Griffith, Chicago has-been; in Chicago...
...night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells his second. Then he knocks out his opponent, races to the pier in his bathrobe, delivers another knockout. When last seen, he is being reconciled with a previous sweetheart (Marian Nixon) brought to see him by his manager (Guy Kibbee...