Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...half years that he has been a professional fisticuffer. Born in Saint Eugene. Quebec, he was moved to Danielson, Conn., when he was nine. Three years ago. a peaceable weaver in a Connecticut cotton mill, he went to watch an amateur boxing tournament, substituted in a lightweight bout and won it. After six months as an amateur, he turned professional. When an opponent broke two ribs on his right side, he tried boxing lefthanded. Says he: "When the ribs are cured, I can't go back to fighting right-handed again. Je reste gaucher." Shortly after his first professional...
...Chicago, a regulation of the Illinois State Athletic Commission makes it obligatory to score prizefights by points, ten to a round. When Lightweight Champion Tony Canzoneri had finished defending his title last week against a sad faced young Hebrew named Barney Ross (Bernard Rossofsky) the referee gave both fighters 50 points. One of the judges gave Ross 52. Canzoneri 48. The other judge gave Ross 53, Canzoneri 47. That made Ross the new champion but the sweltering crowd in the Chicago Stadium, believing that to win a championship a man should do more than fight ten clever defensive rounds without...
...indicated by the fact that fight critics last week felt - even though he had roundly whipped the best available challenger - that Chocolate had failed to do himself justice. Now 22, Chocolate arrived in the U. S. four years ago. won 167 fights before he lost his first one, to Lightweight Jack Berg two years ago. Before that he had been a newsboy in Havana, learned to box by studying cinemas of Panama Joe Gans. Equipped with 365 suits, $65,000 in Havana real estate and a magnificent fighting brain so single-tracked that it so far contains only...
...Wesley Ramey obscure Grand Rapids lightweight: a fight with Champion Tony Canzoneri, who lost eight of the ten rounds, ended with a bruised face and bad cuts over both eyes, kept his title only because he had insisted that Ramey enter the ring weighing more than the light-weight limit of 135 lb.; in Grand Rapids...
...Shore Athletic Club in Chicago. His surprise came in the semifinals, against Albert Charles ("Hobey") Hobelmann of Baltimore, a player who had lost in the national semi-finals for the last six years. They made a preposterous contrast in the court-Trulio with the well-muscled physique of a lightweight boxer, Hobelmann 6 ft. 3 in. and 154 Ib. wearing spectacles. Trulio as usual tried to wear down his opponent with a slow high serve that crept along the wall but Hobelmann's low volleys, played fast with amazing control, passed the champion again & again. When they came...