Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Race Referee Clifford ("Tip") Goes shouted: "Ready all, row!" and 88 lean crewmen bent to it, pulling their lightweight (250 lbs.) toothpick shells in surging spurts over Syracuse's Lake Onondaga. It was the golden jubilee race of the Intercollegiate Rowing Association, once known as the Poughkeepsie Regatta, later shifted from the Hudson River to the Ohio (at Marietta), and now settled at Syracuse, out of reach of floods...
Irish Pennants & Beards. Manning drives himself as hard as his men. He keeps his sturdy (5 ft. 7½ in., 160 Ibs.) frame in tiptop shape by boxing every day (he used to spar with ex-Lightweight Champion Benny Leonard), and does not smoke or drink. On board his ship, he wakes up every morning at about 6:30 for coffee in bed, takes a quick look topside before a breakfast of orange juice, eggs, toast and more coffee. The first day out he spends the morning making a stem-to-stern inspection, in which the smallest Irish pennant (loose...
...they do each summer, the networks this week were rummaging desperately in their idea departments. What they were looking for were inexpensive, lightweight replacements for the big radio & TV shows that go on vacation during the next three months. This year, the networks' annual problem is reduced by at least one-third because July will be amply filled from Chicago with the hoopla and oratory of the two national political conventions...
...times past when such men of skill and punch as Joe Cans, Benny Leonard and Tony Canzoneri wore the crown, the lightweight championship of the world meant something in boxing. Even as recently as two years ago, Lightweight Champion Ike Williams was respected for his shifty style, if not for his fighting heart. But when Williams lost his title last year to a Harlem unknown named Jimmy Carter, lightweight prestige slumped. Last week Champion Carter, 28 and still a colorless jabber, put his low-rated title on the line for the third time...
...title changed hands this week. In Tokyo, for Japan's first world's title fight, some 42,000 fans went wild as Japan's Yoshiro Shirai, 28 and a sharp counterpuncher, outpointed Hawaii's aging (35) Dado Marino for the flyweight (112 Ibs.) title. Like Lightweight Salas, Shirai is the first fighter from his country ever to hold a world championship. The U.S., once the stronghold of boxing, now owns only half of the eight world titles. Others outside the U.S.: the welterweight (147 Ibs.) championship held by Cuba's Kid Gavilan, and the bantamweight...