Word: prizefights
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...Army faction maintains that Corporal Joseph Barrow, world's heavyweight champion, is just another soldier and should fight for the Army only. Another group, grateful for the champion's patriotic gesture of donating his only 1942 prizefight earnings ($83,246) to Army & Navy relief funds instead of using the money to pay his 1941 income tax, feels that Louis should be given a chance to raise the $117,000 he owes the Government...
...Largest crowd at a U.S. prizefight was not the 120,757 that saw the first Dempsey-Tunney world-championship fight in Philadelphia (1926), but the crowd that watched Tony Zale knock out Billy Pryor last summer in Milwaukee. It was a free show put on by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The attendance...
...Shortest prizefight on record lasted 11 seconds; longest...
Maxwell Everett ("Slapsie Maxie") Rosenbloom, 37, onetime world's light-heavyweight prizefight champ, now proprietor of a Hollywood nightclub, is making a picture of undergraduate life called Harvard, Here I Come. His wife, according to United Pressman Frederick Othman, is coaching him in collegiate ways. Says...
...fabulous Sleepless Hollow, trick estate at Lake Hopatcong, N.J., complete with squirting telephones, rubber-legged chairs, golf-ball tree, a nine-hole golf course which has a hole-in-one hole. Billy Conn, the almost-champ, arrived in Hollywood with his new bride to start work together in a prizefight movie. Sam Goldwyn signed Lou Gehrig's widow to help film the late ball star's life...