Word: outpointing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old bachelor of quiet habits, who likes music and plays the bass fiddle himself, he had managed to outpoint Jersey Joe Walcott in a dull fight this summer (TIME, July 4). That made him heavyweight champion of the world in the eyes of the National Boxing Association (a title good in 47 states). Last week, as he squared off against tired old (34) Gus Lesnevich in Yankee Stadium, he was out to impress the big holdout: the powerful New York State Boxing Commission, whose chairman, Eddie Eagan, thought that Charles ought to prove himself further...
Roughneck Rocky Graziano is an accomplished shadow-boxer, who has hitherto been able to outpoint the shadows of his own past. This time he dropped his guard and caught one on the chin. Exiled from New York rings eight months ago for not reporting a $100,000 bribe offer, Rocky went off limits to Chicago and won the world's middleweight championship. In 58 fights, he had become the biggest drawing card in boxing, after Joe Louis. Last week, he faced exile from practically all U.S. boxing rings...
Boxing has suffered from the war: four champions have been killed in battle. But last week crowds packed the Palace of Physical Culture to watch a squat, shave-headed slugger named Nikolai Korolev outpoint the Red Army's Ivan Ganykin in four rounds to become "absolute champion of Moscow." Korolev weighed 198 lb., Ganykin 156. Member of the Order of the Red Banner (for his guerrilla fighting behind Nazi lines), Korolev boasts of his letters from Joe Louis...
...green Yardling wrestling team with only three men who have had appreciable experience, will attempt to pin or outpoint their M. I. T. opponents this afternoon and avenge their 28 to 5 defeat of last year...
...Waldron has been showing steady improvement in the breastroke and has a good chance to carry off the butterfly event in tomorrow's meet at Annapolis. George Dana and Chet Hagenkahn will need to be at their beat to outpoint Harvard Ficher in the dive, but Art Bosworth should annex the 150-yard backstroke with little effort. Dick Harris may give Midshipman Jack Jacques a good battle for second place...