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...oldest able professional wrestler in the U. S. He is almost 50, with the figure of a porpoise, a partially bald head, swollen ears and pig-eyes dulled by trachoma. Last week Strangler Lewis waddled proudly into a New York ring for a match with Richard Shikat, a limber and powerful young German who has been trying to get a return match for the title ever since Champion Jim Londos won it from him two years ago. The match between Shikat and Lewis was important because Champion Londos had been ordered by the New York State Boxing Commission to wrestle...
...When the newspaper editor, a public official or anyone else puts his feet under the mahogany with the President, his backbone suddenly becomes limber...
...Tommy Loughran, limber, cautious, dexterous Philadelphia heavyweight: a ten-round fight with Ernie Schaaf, pale protege of Jack Sharkey. Two years ago Sharkey knocked out Loughran. Last week Sharkey said: "If Loughran beats Schaaf, I'll fight him again...
Running on boards is different from running out of doors. Learning how to adjust his stride to the greater spring the track gives on indoor boards does npt completely solve the problem of the runner. He must master the banked turns. No matter how long or limber are his legs on the straightaway, unless he acquires a correct balance around turns, leaning neither too much nor too little, unless he shortens his stride with the inside leg, the runner should stay out in the open. Dr. Paul Martin of Switzerland", bone specialist, U. S. 1,000-yd. champion...
Seven hundred limber-limbed men and women walked past a box in the rococo ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore last fortnight and put into it small bits of paper. When all had filed by the box was removed, opened and the bits of paper sorted. Presently Thomas M. Sheehy of Chicago rose and in a hushed silence read a list of names and a list of dances. Thus were announced four dances and one novelty (from a field of 60) which the Dancing Masters of America have officially elected to sponsor and will endeavor to popularize throughout the land...