Word: prizefight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate of today looks upon a football game in much the same manner as he does upon a circus, a prizefight, or a professional baseball game. It is an exciting spectacle and one to which he can take his family or friends. He would no more think of attending a game to support the team than he would attend the Follies because the third girl from the left came from Chicago, his home town. A good deal of jovial intercollegiate rivalry exists and always will, which is natural. Undergraduates will back their team to win and cheer the players...
...Benjamin Leiner, a skinny little Semite with a pallid, solemn face, had his first professional prizefight. Five years later he won the lightweight championship of the world by technically knocking out Freddie Welsh. In 1924, after a fight with Pal Moran in which he hurt his right hand but retained his championship, he retired. Said he: "My mother does not want me to fight any more...
...Lott Jr.: the Meadow Club Invitation Tennis Tournament, at Southamp- ton, N. Y.; beating Clifford Sutter 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the finals after winning his semi-final match with ailing Ellsworth Vines by default. ¶Maxie Rosenbloom: a poorly attended, poorly contested prizefight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Jimmy Slattery, in Brooklyn, by slapping Slattery gently for 15 rounds between which Champion Rosenbloom chatted with his seconds about matters not pertaining to the fight. ¶Charles Ferrara, San Francisco steelworker: the National Public Links Golf Championship; beating a Long...
...shabby, smalltime sporting-club in Brooklyn, 2,000 representatives of the fertile social sediment in which prizefighting has its roots last week watched a preliminary bout between two light heavyweights. One was a shaky, timid Negro, the other a slow-footed, lumbering white man with a scarred face and a flat nose. In the first round, the Negro fell without being hit, then, in the second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan...
...make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between him and his murderous opponent...