Word: prizefighter
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...York's Yankee Stadium last week, Germany's Max Schmeling knocked out Detroit's Negro Joe Louis in the twelfth round of a scheduled 15-round prizefight...
...over-looking the Grand Canyon, played The Last Round-Up "in memory of my friendship for Will Rogers." Her wind at an altitude of 8,000 feet was so amazing to a cowboy that he said: "Lady, I think you're wonderful. We've never had a prizefight that lasted more than two rounds up here and I think you lasted about nine with that horn!" When not trumpeting Mrs. East runs a bookstore on the University of California's campus...
...Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, rich, conservative M. P. from St. Marylebone. A large canvas of early 19th Century London, it preserves with florid elegance the swagger of its period. In the early 1800's a man could be hanged for stealing thirteen pence. When Mr. Barty, a retired prizefighter turned innkeeper, is suspected of a theft far more serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith...
...between Negro Joe Louis and Spaniard Isidore Gastanaga. Instead of completing arrangements for the fight, Promoter Jacobs took a hurried glance at what he later described as "a bodyguard of six machine-gunners" sent to meet his plane, promptly decided that conditions in Cuba were too unsettled for major prizefight ventures, postponed Louis v. Gastanaga indefinitely, returned to New York. The Cuban Tourist Commission termed his statements "outrageous," threatened to bring them to the attention of the U. S. Secretary of State. The Cuban Boxing Commission suspended Promoter Jacobs for six months, fined him $500. Havana Promoter Samuel Tolon...
...Coney Island excursion boats, a venture which ended by his owning the boats. He is now Broadway's No. 1 ticket speculator. As body & soul of the Twentieth Century Sporting Club, with Fisticuffer Joe Louis under exclusive contract, he has virtually a strangle hold on the U. S. prizefight business. Last week Mike Jacobs entered a new field. Amid a gale of sarcastic laughter from sportswriters, he set out to remove the game of contract bridge from the nation's drawing rooms to the nation's hippodrome...