Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tony Canzoneri: a 15-round fight, defending his world's lightweight championship, against Judah Bergman (Jack ["Kid"] Berg) ; in Manhattan...
...dear to the heart of Mr. Britten who was once an able boxer himself, the finals of the scouting force boxing matches. James Joseph Tunney, retired Marine, would referee and give to the heavyweight winner the statue of James J. Corbett which Mr. Britten won as U. S. amateur lightweight champion back in 1894. To Mr. Britten everything looked bright except the weather...
...Benjamin Leiner, a skinny little Semite with a pallid, solemn face, had his first professional prizefight. Five years later he won the lightweight championship of the world by technically knocking out Freddie Welsh. In 1924, after a fight with Pal Moran in which he hurt his right hand but retained his championship, he retired. Said he: "My mother does not want me to fight any more...
...taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission promptly refused to sanction; a subsequent campaign for the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight championships. Promoter Jimmy Johnston remembered he had a seven-year-old contract for a fight between Leonard and Walker, hoped to utilize...
...hundred and fifty pound foot-ball team, inaugurated last year, is not to be discontinued this fall, it was definitely announced last evening by Henry W. Clark '23, Assistant Treasurer of the Harvard Athletic Association. This statement sets at rest conflicting rumors to the effect that the lightweight football players were to disband permanently in order to insure copious material for the seven House teams which are to be organized...