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...years ago, hatchet-faced Private Lew Jenkins of Sweetwater, Tex. took a furlough from his job of shoeing horses at the U. S. Army's Fort Bliss. He went to Dallas to see the sights. After a few days he was broke, went to a matchmaker to ask for a fight so that he would have a place to flop at night. Back at his post, Private Jenkins was dissatisfied. The $15 he got for that one fight in Dallas was about two weeks' pay in the Army. A few weeks later, Private Jenkins bought himself...
...York matchmakers, Lew Jenkins described himself as an "ornery cuss," was finally given a chance on a Tuesday-night card in Long Island City's Queensboro Arena. He won his first fight, his second, his third. By the time he had won six in a row, New York managers sat up and took notice. Two months ago, when he knocked out Tippy Larkin in one round at Madison Square Garden for his tenth successive victory, knowing New York fight fans became aware of the latest pugilistic freak: a hollow-cheeked, sunken-eyed 132-pounder, with the legs...
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
Proud of its title of the "Hoosier Athens" is Crawfordsville, Ind. (pop. 10,000), home of the late great Best-Seller General Lew Wallace (Ben Hur). Crawfords ville's biggest office building-five stories-is owned by Ben Hur Life Association. The town's prettiest buildings are on the campus of Wabash College. Two or three times a year, one of these buildings, a prim chapel seating 1,100 people, becomes Crawfordsville's concert hall. There last fortnight, Crawfordsville culture glowed at its brightest. In the chapel 650 townsfolk heard the season's second and final...