Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...champion who loses his title rarely wins it back, partly because Canzoneri, eight years older than his opponent, has indubitably lost some of his old enthusiasm for absorbing punches. When they climbed out, after 15 busy rounds, Canzoneri had knocked Ambers down three times, had become the first lightweight pugilist in history to win the championship after being defeated in defense of it. Said he: "I think Ambers remembered the sparring partner days and that affected him psychologically. . . . I'll fight any challenger the Commission wants me to." Observers expected him to hold the title until Barney Ross, scheduled...
Princeton, N. J., Princeton's 150-Pound Crew Prospects--May 13, 1935--Its best season in years is in prospect as the Tiger lightweight crew prepares to go to Cambridge next Saturday to battle Yale and Harvard's fifties in the Goldthwait Cup races...
Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
...Varsity race Captain Sam Drury's eight is not expected to retrieve the Compton Cup from the Tiger shell which two weeks ago beat the Penn A. C. But the Crimson is rated as favorite over the Tech eight since Guy Haines, the lightweight stroke, is lost to the Engineers and it is doubtful if they will display the coordination and skill which they showed last week...
...last few years, professional prizefight promoters & managers as well as the public have taken a lively interest in the Golden Gloves. Light-heavyweight Champion Bob Olin, cousin of a News cameraman, got his start as a Golden Glover in 1928. So did Lightweight Champion Barney Ross, in 1929. Currently, most notable Golden Gloves alumnus is Negro Heavyweight Joe Louis of Detroit who won the Golden Gloves championship last year after knocking out 43 of his 54 amateur opponents. Since turning professional, Heavyweight Louis has had 17 fights, won 13 by knockouts, four by decision without losing a round. Last week...