Word: mikes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Light Heavyweight Championship is officially vacant because Battling Siki, Senegalese, was disbarred by the French Boxing Commission. In America Mike McTigue, the Irishman, is generally regarded as Light Heavyweight champion because he defeated Siki in Dublin last St. Patrick's Day. But since Siki failed to weigh in before that contest it is not recognized by the international body...
...attitude of the Harvard supporters on the other hand is perhaps best expressed in the words of Mike Denehan, who guards the Stadium gates during secret practice,--"Dartmouth is out for blood,--but they're going to get licked...
Battling Siki (real name Louis Fall);black badman from Senegal, arrived in the U. S. quite out of character. He was quietly dressed even to his suspenders. He talked little and very modestly. He smiled steadily. He said that he came to America seeking fights with Mike McTigue (who defeated him for the world's light-heavyweight championship in Dublin), Luis Firpo, Jack Dempsey. He was accompanied by his manager and two other French fighters (all white). His pet lion was not in the party...
...Nose Dive, P. J. Nutt and Peaceful Henry came east to his last year's contest. Groups of the most famous riders of the Western rodeos came with them to ride or fall for the prize money. This year the purses aggregate $50,000; the riders will include: Mike Hastings, Pinky Gist, Yakima Canutt (half-breed; world's champion in 1921), Howard Tegland, Roy Quick, Paddy Ryan, Soapy Williams, Ike Rude, Powder River Thompson, Hugh Strickland, Mabel Strickland (world's woman champion in 1922), Bonnie McCarroll, Rene Halfley, Bonnie Gray. They pay their own way and come...
...flick of a glove lace in the eye has ended the ring career of Mike Gibbons after 15 years fighting. Oculists pronounce the injury which left one eye virtually sightless, received in training, incurable. Gibbons known as " The Phantom " in his time was one of the greatest of the middleweights. He is the elder brother of Tom Gibbons, Dempsey's opponent at Shelby...