Word: langford
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...broke, jobless, totally blind. Three weeks ago a doctor offered to patch up his right eye. Last week Sam Langford blinked, saw his first light in five years, blubbered, laughed, pounded his doctor's shoulders...
Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
...fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week, when he thrashed Heavyweight Natie Brown in Detroit, the U. S. Press, always eager to ballyhoo a "black menace" to the heavyweight championship, selected Joe Louis as successor to Jack Johnson, Harry Wills, Sam Langford. Twenty years old, equipped with a formidable right hand, polite, a flashy dresser, so religious he sometimes reads his Bible between rounds, Fisticuffer Louis is matched to fight one- time Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera next June...
...LEVERS W. E. BONDURANT FOREST E. LEVERS LANGFORD KEITH H. H. DAVIDSON Roswell...
...were the arguments over drinks and cookies before the judges returned from the jury room, asked four of the contestants to go over their scales. Frederic Langford's topnotes were the lustiest and Frederic Langford was fairly dithering when he knew that he had won. A native of Jamestown, N. Y., he has worked for six years in the Episcopal Church Book Store, recommending reading for women's auxiliaries, going evenings to the opera when he could afford admission to stand. Day after the contest a tinny borrowed piano was carted out of his rooming-house...