Word: prizefighting
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...Colonel Jacob Ruppert, prizefight loving bachelor, owner of Manhattan's most victorious ball club, the New York Yankees, did not in the beginning of the Depression have the big, profitable, post-Prohibition brewing business that he has today. Yet he made a bold decision. He announced that he would back his faith in Manhattan real estate by buying any properties that appealed to him. Last week the Colonel bought the 23-story Hoagland Building on Madison Avenue at 40th Street, and Manhattan did not accuse him of being late in fulfilling his promise. Rather, Manhattan noted that...
Proudest boast of MGM was that Greta Garbo had returned to Hollywood after all, signed a new contract, and was ready to start her next picture (Queen Christina). Also signed up for one prizefight picture was Heavyweight Challenger Max Baer. Still addicted to all-star casts, MGM was ready to release Dinner at Eight which contains almost every performer on the lot except John Barrymore's macaw. RKO promised Sinclair Lewis' Ann Viewers. It would also tackle Of Human Bondage, Somerset Maugham's long-neglected but deeply moving story of a cripple. Fox announced it had bought...
...principals in San Francisco's first important title prizefight for 19 years, held last week, were Young Corbett (Raffaele Giordano of Fresno, Calif.) and Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein of Chicago) who won the welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with...
...perfect game (300), the 8th in her career; in the course of a single evening's exercise, at St. Paul, Minn. ¶ William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, itinerant Georgia heavyweight pugilist: a 12-round bout against Dan McCorkindale of South Africa; by decision; before the biggest African prizefight crowd (15,000); at Johannesburg...
...William Collier Sr.). The manager takes the job of matchmaker at the Garden and the middleweight, left to shift for himself, falls into the hands of a racketeering manager. Partly because Oakie's opponent is Mushey Callahan, a onetime contender for the U. S. welterweight championship, the climactic prizefight is better organized than most such scuffles in the cinema. Callahan has plaster of Paris on his bandages to make his fists hard, but it is not enough to knock out Oakie. When the fight is over, Oakie reassures his girl (Marion Nixon), then goes, accompanied by the other right...