Word: loughran
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Light Heavyweight: Tommy Loughran, Philadelphia...
Light Heavyweight (175) Tommy Loughran...
Next day Sport Writer Williams of the New York Evening Tele-grunt meditated gravely on teacups and the apparent discrepancies between opera and sports arena. Mr. Williams distinctly recalled a recent prizefight in which Michael McTigue lost the light-heavyweight championship to Thomas Loughran (TIME, Oct. 17), chiefly, according to Mr. Williams, because, Mr. McTigue waited until the last rest between rounds to "toss off" a teacup of something. He recalled Rube Wadell, baseball pitcher, who sat over his teacups all one night before his pitching masterpiece?a game against Detroit in which Ty Cobb, first man up, bunted safely...
...roll call" of ringside sport writers revealed a distinct preponderance of dependable opinion in the school of thought that claimed a foul. Among those voting "no foul" were Mayor Walker of New York City; Champion Tunney; and men named Farrell, Byrne, O'Neill, Sullivan, Loughran...
...face in a ring in Philadelphia. At ten he got up. With his eyes glazed, his ears ringing, a cut in his cheek, and his nose oozing like a broken bottle he summoned the wraith of his courage and flailed, thumped, jabbed, socked, lashed at one Thomas Loughran, mick. Loughran won the decision. But the Philadelphia clients who saw the Frenchman helped to his corner glanced at each other in solemn agreement on an important fact: Carpentier is still a game boxer...