Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that in a game, the athletes wear feather weight shoes--speed shoes--made to fit like kid gloves. Not all of the players undergo this loss of poundage, since the tackles do not wear the speed shoes and some of the other individual players find that the lightweight shoes do not withstand the punishment that they give their feet...
...from freight, $1,000,000,000 from passengers. A 10% freight rate increase would bring in $300,000,000 annually. But the railway executives well knew as they rolled home in Pullman drawing rooms last week, that to add 10% to the freight charges on lightweight commodities for short hauls would only drive even more business into the hands of truck and steamship competitors. Consequently they were planning a graduated increase, not permitting rates of any one commodity to he upped more than...
...Tony Canzoneri: the right to meet Barney Ross in a return bout for the world's lightweight championship; by defeating Frankie Klick of San Francisco, by a technical knockout, in 9 rounds; in Brooklyn...
Square Garden's outdoor bowl Welterweight Jimmy McLarnin entered the ring first, laced up his gloves. Small Barney Ross, who won the lightweight championship from Tony Canzoneri last year, ducked into his corner a moment later and the two men shook hands...
...After the 15th, at the end of a close, clever, almost even fight, McLarnin trotted to his corner, prepared to execute the handspring with which he customarily celebrates a victory. Referee Eddie Forbes walked across the ring to the opposite corner, raised Ross's hand. First lightweight champion in history to win the welterweight championship as well. Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) had his first fist fight when he was eight years old, grew up on Chicago's West Side where his father ran a delicatessen, has two managers, wears silk pajamas, fancies himself a songwriter...