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...Pancho Villa of the Island of Panay in the Philippines became flyweight boxing champion of the world by knocking out Jimmy Wilde, Britisher, in New York (in the seventh round). Next day Wilde was spoken of in the public prints as " the bravest little man who ever held a ring title...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Villa-Wilde | 6/25/1923 | See Source »

...cauliflower ear, characteristic flora of the prize ring, is withering away. Careful inspection of the three champions now training to defend their titles within the month- Jack Dempsey against Tom Gibbons, Johnny Kilbane against Eugene Criqui, Jimmy Wilde against Pancho Villa-reveals that none show the effects of auricular horticulture. Further research into the personal appearances of the six other ring champions discloses only one cauliflower ear. It is attached to the head of Johnny Dundee. A cauliflower ear is the ridged, mushroom-like appendage that remains after years of unfriendly massage by the fists of opposing pugilists. Its modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Earmarks | 6/4/1923 | See Source »

...Paul Madero, brother of former President Madero, who was elected on November 6,1911, and murdered in February, 1913. He is supported by the remnants of the old Conservative party, the agrarians and followers of Francisco Pancho Villa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Latin America | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

Doctors, who can't be fooled all the time-by a hot water bottle. (P. 21.) The agrarian proclivities of Pancho Villa. (P. 7.) Harvey, Child, Moore-from reporter to ambassador. (P. 7.) The courage of Utah's Governor In admitting that the devil did not create tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Point With Pride: Mar. 17, 1923 | 3/17/1923 | See Source »

...approve his discontinuance of pursuit of Pancho Villa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "We Approve." | 10/31/1916 | See Source »

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