Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of U. S. radios, one night last week, fight fans fidgeted. Scheduled for 9:45 was the Manhattan set-to between Welterweight Champion Henry Armstrong, Negro buzz saw, and Light weight Champion Lew Jenkins, self-styled "kind of crazy-punching guy." A nontitle fight, it had nevertheless been ballyhooed as the most exciting little-men's match since the days of Lew Tendler and Benny Leonard...
Commented Sportswriter Wilbur Wood in the New York Sun: "Henry Arm strong isn't half the fighter he used to be and Lew Jenkins isn't half the fighter he was supposed to be." Yet Promoter Mike Jacobs promptly arranged a return match for September...
Watching hard-hitting, ex-Army Mule Shoer Lew Jenkins, world's lightweight boxing champion, hammer sparring partners around the ring, No. 1 Professional Tennist J. Donald Budge, noted for his own smashing attack, commented: "That's a snappy forehand drive Jenkins...
Last week, 23-year-old Lew Jenkins-thanks to his go-getting manager, Hymie Caplin-found himself in Madison Square Garden, challenging Lou Ambers for the world's lightweight championship. To the crowd of 14,000, the scrawny, wild-haired Texan looked more like a Broadway panhandler than a challenger for Pugilism's next-to-most-important title. Ringsiders gave him no more than a 3-to-1 chance against skillful, durable, ring-wise Lou Ambers...
Arriving in Manhattan for the opening of Lillian Russell, new movie in which they have a reminiscent sequence, Oldtime Funnymen Joe ("Mike") Weber, 72, and Lew ("Meyer") Fields, 73, promptly went into their 63-year-old act at Grand Central Terminal: Meyer cuffed Mike, shook him like an apple tree. When they paused for breath, Weber growled: "All people ever wanted to see us for is to watch Lew knock the hell out of me." Mourned