Word: knockouts
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...from Regan. When he knocked out Prince Pearl, shifty Negro boxer, he hoped it would give him a chance to meet Champion Mike Shay. When the fight finally took place it was a near thing: Mike floored Coke once, had him groggy, but Coke outlasted him, won by a knockout...
...correct (TIME, Sept. 30) in saying that Jimmy Doolittle held his own and a little more than his own in boxing Eric Pedley in his undergraduate days. But that's not all-Doolittle administered a knockout with the first blow struck after the boxers had touched gloves. It was amazing because it was so quick. Pedley was stretched flat before any of the spectators realized it. It was all the more remarkable because Doolittle was boxing out of his class in weight-a light heavyweight in the heavyweight group. The incident, which is local legend hereabouts, and much retold...
...eleventh round. Courageously, he delivered two or three blows, but received a dozen which made his knees bend and his back feel the ropes. Referee Edward Forbes, night sports-editor on the Brooklyn Eagle, stepped forward and stopped the fight, awarding Champion Tunney what is called a technical knockout. Heeney's head was drooping and there was a liquid in his eyes in addition to blood. Tunney went over to him, put two arms on his shoulders, said: "Tom, you are a game man." . . . Promoter George L. ("Tax") Rickard, complaining that the radio was ruining his business and threatening...
...quietly tailored clothes and when friends are spoofing him. He delights in boasting about his healthy tribe back in New Zealand-his mother who can do a full day's milking at 80, his sister who has "possibly 20 children." He is a hard man to knockout, but his defense is clumsy. If he becomes champion, he will have a good time and people will think him something of a clown...
...pound class--C. A. Floro 2L defeated Harold Lockhart ocC. by knockout...