Word: pugilistic
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When, to the amazement of the boxing world, German Pugilist Max Schmeling knocked out Negro Pugilist Joe Louis a year ago, his just reward was obviously a bout with Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock. Contracts were signed last winter. The bout was scheduled for last week...
Harry Bennett, a wiry, dynamic ex-sailor and pugilist, was last in the news when a flying brick felled him during the riot of unemployed outside Ford's River Rouge plant five years ago (TIME. March 14, 1932). That he may soon make news again appeared last week when militant United Automobile Workers, who have been roaring FORD NEXT! throughout their General Motors and Chrysler imbroglios, staged the first Ford sit-down in an assembly plant at Kansas City. Grievance was a regular seasonal layoff of some 300 workers in which unionists claimed that long-employed union men were...
...John Henry Lewis, Negro pugilist: a sensationally hard-fought 15-round fight in which he defended his light heavyweight championship against Italian Al Ettore, with whom last month he fought a draw; by the deciding vote of Referee Leo Houck, when the judges disagreed; in Philadelphia...
...coaching. For two years in succession before he was out of Virginia he was the National Amateur Champion; in his collegiate boxing at the Charlottesville institution he knocked out most of his opponents, frequently doubled up to box twice in a meet in two different classes. As a professional pugilist he was also a success, and had dropped but one bout when he decided to accept Harvard's offer and take up a more secure if less spectacular mode of life...
...refusing to make personal appearances to encourage the sale of "Old Champ" liniment. Negro Pugilist Jack Johnson was sued for $360.96 damages by his partner, Morris Botwen. Boxer Johnson declared the liniment Partner Botwen was marketing was not the same good "Old Champ" he had given friends for years to "cure toothaches, headaches or any other kind of ache...