Word: midget
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...28?Flyweight title bout between Midget Wolgast of Philadelphia and Frankie Genaro of New York; at Madison Square Garden. Manhattan...
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...Manhattan Kurt Zweibler, a midget, was arrested for driving a small electric automobile without license plates. He squeaked: "I was on my way to get them...
...year-old 110-lb. son of a Philadelphia carpenter with ten children, learned to be a floor-finisher but did not like the work. Four years ago he got a job sweeping out Jimmy Coster's gym in Philadelphia. He started to fight, changed his name to Midget Wolgast. Last week in Madison Square Garden he climbed into a ring and sat down facing a little Negro laconically known as Black Bill, the other finalist in a tournament conducted to decide the flyweight championship of New York and Philadelphia...
Black Bill bobbed smartly, threw a left hook, a straight right, flew off the ropes like a whirligig. Midget Wolgast danced round him in circles from left to right, his left hook working like the plunger of a sewing machine, his long hair flying. Every three or four rounds of the 15 that kept the crowd roaring, the Midget showed a new trick: breaking a wild flurry he would stand stock still, holding his left hand high until Black Bill led at it, then whacking his right across; he caught Bill in the air coming off the ropes...