Word: leonarde
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening's tag-end bout in Manhattan's smoky St. Nicholas Arena, and the fans were paying less attention to the two indifferent welterweights than to the referee. He was Benny Leonard, onetime great lightweight, now a paunchy 51 but still an agile man in the ring. Dancing out of the fighters' way in the first round, he suddenly toppled to the canvas. Tripping over his own feet was something new for Benny Leonard; the fans laughed...
...most skillful boxers of all time, Benny Leonard (born Leiner) learned to fight in the streets of Manhattan's lower East Side. In his championship days he was so good on defense that he got through many a bout with his well-oiled hair still impeccably parted. He held the world's lightweight title from 1917 to 1925, when he retired undefeated because his mother told him to. Having lost most of his savings in the crash, he tried a comeback; it went the way of all boxers' comebacks and Jimmy McLarnin knocked...
When Hitler came to power in 1933, a German Dominican named Father Leonard Roth quietly began to oppose him. Within two years, the Gestapo was making it so hot for Father Roth that he fled to Switzerland. In 1943, he slipped back into Germany to carry on his undercover fight against the Nazis. Almost before he knew it, he had landed in the Reich's most notorious concentration camp-Dachau. There he saw a guard beat two of his fellow priests to death...
Between the wars the Club went its informal way reaching peaks of furious activity when it numbered men like Virgil Thomson '22 and Leonard Bernstein '39 in its midst and at other times lapsing into sociable lethargy. For a while many of the meetings were held in the home of Edward Ballantine '07, associate professor of Music and then moving spirit of the club...
...greenhorn pitcher who straggled in from the bushes was being compared with Walter Johnson; every ham-handed hitter was a potential Babe Ruth. At Orlando, Fla., Old Pitcher "Bobo" Newsom got in on the talent hunt. He strolled into the Washington Senators' camp with a rookie named Rufe Leonard in tow. Said Bobo modestly: "I don't say he'll be the fastest left-handed pitcher in the American League, because I'm not quite sure he can throw harder than Newhouser. . . ." Last week, Rufe steamed his smoke ball past bewildered batsmen for five innings...