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...years have brought changes to the game and the way it is covered. Drebinger regrets most of them, but philosophically. "When I first broke in," he says, "writers like Hughie Fullerton, Bill McGeehan and Will Wedge wrote much closer to the game than writers do now. They told the fans what was happening and why. They were full of the inside stuff. Now the young writers try to be sophisticated, blase. 'Hell,' they say, 'everybody knows what...
Controversy reached a high point with the column of W. O. McGeehan in the Boston Globe. He wrote to the effect that given a chance the graduates and undergraduates of Harvard would gladly trade President Lowell, President Emeritus Eliot, and three heads of departments for a good running backfield and no questions asked...
...manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as a thoroughly crooked and brutal business. This point of view is entirely tenable, but as the theme of a full-length novel it gets tiresome. All the shocking details that Schulberg desperately dishes up cannot disguise the sophomoric quality of his storytelling, and readers will end up feeling that his book...
Wayward Wit. Six years ago loquacious Jimmy was hauled into New York's Supreme Court, charged with libeling a state boxing commissioner. In a burst of silence, he heard Justice John McGeehan sum up his attributes: "One sees the rakish leer in his eye and gathers that he has a wayward wit. . . . He is engaged in a business that is mostly ballyhoo." Few people remember that the man in the iron hat managed five world champions...
...sportswriter (the late W. O. McGeehan) used to call it "the manly art of modified murder." And modified murder was what this particular boxing match looked like. In Manhattan's Polo Grounds 27-year-old Fritzie Zivic, world's welterweight champion, met 21-year-old Abraham Davidoff, U.S. Army private known in the ring as, Al ("Bummy") Davis, in about that was bloodier than a bullfight...