Word: prizefight
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This sentimental hullabaloo was heavensent for a prizefight buildup, and Builder-Upper Jack Miley, sportswriter of the old school, made the most of it. On the night of the fight 55,000 fans crammed into Manhattan's Polo Grounds...
Symphony in D for the Dodgers had much of the Dodgers' elusive, faunlike charm, and rated a place with such sporting music as Constant Lambert's Prizefight, Arthur Honegger's Rugby and Skating Rink, the ballets Card Game (Igor Stravinsky), Checkmate (Arthur Bliss...
Canada Lee, a Negro fighter, musician and actor of the order of Robeson, got his euphonious name from the late, famed prizefight announcer Joe Humphreys, who couldn't be bothered with Canada's real name: Lionel Canegata. Canada was born of West Indian parents in Manhattan's seamy San Juan Hill district (the Sixties near the Hudson). As a boy he got a reputation for licking toughs, including members of a Harlem gang called "the syndicate," and studied the violin under Negro Composer J. Rosamond Johnson. While still in grammar school, Canada ran away from home, became...
...clothes crowd watched the Adrian Van Sinderens collect ribbon after ribbon in the harness classes. With boredom they watched the saddle horses step around the ring, exhibiting their three gaits, their five gaits, over & over. But when the jumpers came out, the crowd showed some interest. This was what Prizefight Managers Mushky Jackson and Hymie Caplin had come...
...Congress made the transportation of prizefight films in interstate commerce a criminal offense ($1,000 fine, a year in prison, or both). Widespread bootlegging weakened this ban and unhampered radio broadcasts made it almost meaningless, but it stayed on the books until last week. Then Franklin Roosevelt scratched his name to a repealing act passed by Congress, after 28 years making the movement of fight films over State lines legal...