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Little Old Man Ledoux, gamest of the game...
...quarrel was over a purse−and the world's bantamweight boxing championship. The desperado was Abie Goldstein, "Harlem assassin," titleholder, whose boxing on this occasion was now brilliantly clever, now dismally stupid. The little old man was Charley Ledoux, of France, aged 32, bantamweight champion of Europe, who had come to America a third time ("and last," said he) with titular intentions...
Between rounds, towel-flappers and sponge-squeezers sprang through the ropes to revive, rehearten Little Old Man Ledoux. Over these loomed a being, tall, statuesque, godlike...
Carpentier it was indeed, old friend of Little Old Man Ledoux. They have the same manager, Descamps; the same trainer, Gus Wilson; the same training quarters (for the present), the Jack Curley estate, at Great Neck, L. I. In 1909, when the "Gorgeous Orchid Man" was a bantamweight, Ledoux fought Carpentier (unsuccessfully...
Stepping into a sumptuous motor after Ledoux' fight, the "G. O. M." was wafted back to Great Neck to continue his training for Gene Tunney and the American light-heavyweight title on July 24. Callers continued plentiful. They dropped in to scrutinize, criticize, ogle, or just greet. The rustle of skirts was heard almost continuously. Conversation was reported as running along social, theatrical, bootlegging lines. Georges took his exercises regularly, strenuously, but gave the impression that they were work...