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...their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years old, who has devoted...
Because he had been born with a superior quickness and accuracy of muscular response, he seemed for a while unbeatable. In 1893, 1894, 1896, 1897, he held the title. In 1894 a scorching Irishman named Goodbody beat the speedy Hovey, the rare Hobart, and Larned the Nonpareil, but when he met Wrenn he met his finish. In 1897 a strapping Englishman named Eaves (whose name, people said, was really Heaves), crossed the sea and beat the pride of the States, but Wrenn made him drop games like so many...
...only because he is capable of Arising from puerilities to superlatives, that his best seems better than another man's. The truth can never be known, but assuredly, in the third set of this match, he became what his supporters say he is-the pale resistless nonpareil of tennis. So it fell out that he and Richards took the next three sets, 6-3, 6-2, 6-2, the match, the National Doubles title...
...story by Reporter Jack De Witt of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Nonpareil, began: ''There's a lot of good fellows on the road nowadays, seems like we're getting a better class of hoboes, if you know what I mean.' It was a railroad man speaking. The Burlington railroad yards were hideous with noises of the night, hissing of steam and dull clanging of bells...
Forty Years is full of those facts which do not matter a tittle, but by the sheer surprise of their forgottenness make nonpareil tattle. It fills a reader with pride at his newly acquired knowledge, and he turns to his ignorant family, challenges them with a string of questions...