Word: prizefights
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...Benjamin Leiner, a skinny little Semite with a pallid, solemn face, had his first professional prizefight. Five years later he won the lightweight championship of the world by technically knocking out Freddie Welsh. In 1924, after a fight with Pal Moran in which he hurt his right hand but retained his championship, he retired. Said he: "My mother does not want me to fight any more...
...shabby, smalltime sporting-club in Brooklyn, 2,000 representatives of the fertile social sediment in which prizefighting has its roots last week watched a preliminary bout between two light heavyweights. One was a shaky, timid Negro, the other a slow-footed, lumbering white man with a scarred face and a flat nose. In the first round, the Negro fell without being hit, then, in the second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan...
...make the actors seem to be talking with their mouths full of mush. Also there is an episode where Mr. Chaplin swallows a whistle. Each time he coughs he whistles and he cannot stop coughing. Taxis hurry up and stop, dogs overwhelm him. Hollywood also grew hysterical during a prizefight in which Charlie survives two rounds by dodging so briskly that the referee is always between him and his murderous opponent...
...Lingle disclosures confirmed, rather than aroused, public suspicion that newsmen are subject to temptation into "rackets," mild or strong. With few exceptions, newspaper publishers look with complaisance upon the favors openly bestowed upon sports writers by promoters of this prizefight or that ball game. Many a publisher shuts his eyes to the inducements offered financial reporters. In rarer instances, such as that of Jake Lingle, when the reporter has intrenched himself solidly among racketeers, the reporting job becomes secondary to the extrajournalistic activities, the racket all-absorbing...
...Brice demands certain uniform qualities of all stories suggested as vehicles for her. She must play the part of a homely girl; she must have a chance to clown, and sing her songs; she must be disappointed in love. Be Yourself, which deals with the lighter aspects of the prizefight business, fulfills all these conditions fairly well and at the same time establishes a fact which may be useful to Miss Brice when she chooses her next picture ? its burlesque is far more successful than the elaborate cabaret scenes, or that expected moment when the star, discovering that...