Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Colorado State Athletic Commission decided to allow Lightweight Champion Joe Brown and Challenger Orlando Zulueta to use 6-oz. instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...
...woozily inaccurate way the film is a biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...
While the heavies had a disappointing day the lightweight races were ones of utter frustration for the Crimson. As was the case last week on the Charles, the varsity's sprint fell short by the smallest of margins as the Tigers once again hung on to win the title. The JV race was actually declared a dead heat but the referee later decided for Navy...
...Lightweight coach Joe Brown's JV's are so erratic that it is very difficult to predict where they will finish. If they are "right," they could achieve the best time of any lightweight boat on the river; if they are off, they could finish almost anywhere...
...trip to England is the prize for the winner of the lightweight race, since the winner of the Sprints is almost always chosen to represent the United States in the Henley regatta. Princeton is rated the favorite in this race, but it has attained this position only by its fractional win over the Crimson. The two boats are very even and should provide one of the most exciting races...