Word: loughran
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Carnera v. Loughran...
...Park to see an Army jumping team from Fort Riley beat Forts Myer, Sill, Benning, McPherson and Oglethorpe. In a Miami store window a pair of Primo Camera's giant clodhoppers stood filled with pennies-offering a pair of free tickets to this week's Camera-Tommy Loughran championship fight to whoever guessed most accurately their contents...
...Schmeling for the world's heavyweight championship, Schmeling's manager swore never to fight for the Garden again. His vindictiveness had two results: 1) Instead of Sharkey, whom he might have beaten, Schmeling last summer fought Max Baer and was knocked out. 2) Instead of aging Tommy Loughran, whom he might have fought in Miami, Schmeling was matched in Philadelphia last week with young Steve Hamas, onetime Penn State footballer...
Last week's decision made it look as if Madison Square Garden, whose Miami bout between Loughran and Champion Camera was postponed until Feb. 28, had temporarily ceased to be an important promoter of fights. It also indicated that Schmeling had finished his career as a first-rate fighter; that young Hamas, who took up boxing four years ago to help pay his brother's doctors, was a possible opponent for ebullient Maxie Baer next summer...
...Well, it was sad, in a sad, sentimental sort of way, to peer up through the ropes of the scaffold and compare the Loughran and the Sharkey of that moment with, the boys as we knew them when Loughran used to be called the pretty one, He started fighting at the age of 15, which was 16 years ago, an uncommonly handsome, upstanding kid with the poise of a statue and nice teeth and hard, flat belly with the muscles laid over one another like the sections of an armadillo's shell...