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...championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...
...Charles Manners, Marquess of Granby and later fourth Duke of Rutland, grew up to be described as "an amiable and extravagant peer, without any particular talent except for conviviality." He did have sense enough to protest the policy of taxing the American Colonies in 1775, observing that it was "commenced in iniquity, is pursued with resentment, and can terminate in nothing but blood." Thomas Gainsborough's portrait makes Manners look dull and mannered, though no one knew better than Gainsborough how to paint the freshness of youth (as his famed Blue Boy demonstrates...
...opponents, and made Murphy one of the top contenders for the light-heavyweight title. The referee had to warn Murphy against his grab-and-hit tactics (clutching with his right glove while pounding with his left). But Matthews was taking care of himself. He boxed with Marquess of Queensberry manners, but kept thumping powerful lefts & rights to Murphy's body. Later, when Murphy continued to bore in with a splendid disregard of the punishment he'd taken, Matthews showed that he has more than one specialty by jabbing punishing lefts to Murphy's head. Meanwhile, Matthews...
Married. Crania Guinness, 39, British beer heiress, daughter of the late Lord Moyne; and Oswald Constantine John Phipps, fourth Marquess of Normanby, 38; in a suspenseful ceremony in Lythe, England. When the presiding Archbishop of York reached the point of asking if anyone had "just cause" for objection, 300 wedding guests were startled when a pale little man jumped up and cried, "Yes, I have, my Lord Archbishop." His Grace paused and looked up for an instant at Thomas Trueman, 45, who believes he has some claim to the bridegroom's Normanby title and estates. But the archbishop gave...
...book, we should hit back at those who are hitting at us. It doesn't fit with my philosophy to put Marquess of Queensberry rules on us when a Chinese thug is cracking us on the back of the head with an ax ... Debate whether 300,000 Chinks who crossed that border were interventionists or aggressors is hard to take...