Word: madison
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Four nights later, a brawler from Pennsylvania's coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard Charles of Cincinnati. For most of the ten rounds, Ezzard buzzed around Baksi like a bumblebee around a bull. He kept stinging Baksi with lefts & rights that didn't seem to hurt much-though he opened a bad cut above his left eye. At 2:33 of the eleventh...
...doctor. He thought he would go see New York's Boxing Commissioner Eddie Eagan and try to get Eddie to lift his supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli and take a dive. "I could have picked up the change [about $18,000] and gone into the water," said Rocky righteously...
...since the Madison (Wis.) Democrat died in 1920 had the state capital boasted a morning newspaper of its own. But for 30 years, two papers had battled it out in the afternoon field. Last week Madison (pop. 67,500) learned, with mixed feelings, that it would get a morning paper and lose an afternoon one. The 110-year-old Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 36,000) was moving to the morning field,* leaving the Capital Times (circ. 41,000) to carry on loudly and lustily alone...
...Sportsman. To most Wisconsin readers, free and vigorous Bill Evjue (pronounced Ev-you), 66, was the best guarantee that Madison's newspapers will stay that way. Born in Wisconsin of Norwegian stock and educated at the University of Wisconsin, Evjue became managing editor of the Journal at 29. In 1917, when the paper attacked the late great Senator Robert M. LaFollette for his pacifism, Evjue quit to found the Times. (He later edited LaFollette's Progressive on the side.) The Times has been expressing Evjue's strident personality ever since. From the start, Evjue faced a financial...
John Costi of Williams scored the deciding goal in the 35th second of a "sudden death" period. The match, an unusually freescoring contest, which was played at the Squadron A Armory on 94th st, and Madison ave., inaugurated this year's indoor season...