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Sharkey v. Loughran. There is a rule in New York that a fighter who is champion in his class must renounce his title before trying for the championship in a heavier class. Because of this rule Thomas Loughran was no longer light-heavyweight champion of the world when he climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium to fight Jack Sharkey (Josef Cukoschary) of Boston. In the third round Sharkey ran out of his corner and forced Loughran against the ropes and hit him high on the jaw. Loughran sat down. Five seconds later he got up and began...
...Tommy Loughran, world's light- heavyweight boxing champion, training in Hoosick Falls, N. Y. for a bout with James J. Braddock, swam 100 yards (out and back) to rescue one Herta Ehmler who, plucking water lilies, had fallen out of her boat into Fairy Manor Lake...
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...