Word: prizefights
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...Jersey City, on July 2, 1921, U. S. sport fans witnessed a milestone in prizefight annals: the first million-dollar gate. Last week, on the 19th anniversary of that historic Dempsey-Carpentier battle, Jersey City was the scene of another heavyweight prize fight that will probably go down in history as the wretchedest of the post-Dempsey...
...Yussel the Muscle" was Joe Jacobs, no kin to Mike. He was not only the most colorful but the smartest manager in the prizefight business. Son of an immigrant Jewish tailor who settled in Manhattan's hurly-burly Hell's Kitchen, puny little Yussel Jacobs had to live by his wits to defend himself against his tough Irish neighbors. By the time he was 16. he commanded so much respect that he managed two neighborhood pugs. Dave and Willie Astey...
Last week, while sportswriters moaned "We wuz robbed." the prizefight fraternity wondered what effect Joe Jacobs' passing would have. With Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento in line for another shot at Joe Louis' crown (Galento is scheduled to meet Max Baer in a tuneup at Jersey City May 28), it looked as if Galento might drop out of the picture. In his crepe-draped saloon, Two-Ton Tony blubbered: "I can't go on widout...
...hooting Paris sirens and the suspense of the six-hour-long silence from Paris were considerably beyond the limit of radio's rules for mystery serials. Even in prizefight broadcasts a fighter may be cut, but he never bleeds, yet from Warsaw NBC had broadcast into U. S. parlors bashed brains, hacked-off hands, slaughtered children. Commentators, necessarily, were far from neutral. The European news reports broadcast were censored at the source, and amounted to little more than propaganda (even though the press printed no less censored news). In addition to all this, the cost had been terrific...
...been there ever since. Meanwhile, Mickey's mother had pushed Mickey into the films. A good friend of Mickey and his mother, nowadays "the old man" is often invited to swim and ride on their swank San Fernando Valley estate, occasionally takes his son to a prizefight or baseball game...