Word: pugilistic
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...with the New York Central. His residences are on St. Nicholas Ave., N. Y. C., and Calumet Ave., Chicago. His chief club, The Turf Club (Chicago). His sons, Devere Joseph and George Joseph Jr., are in civil service and sportdom, respectively. George Joseph Jr. achieved some fame as a pugilist (nom de combat, "Jose Alvarez, the Mexican Kid") and fought "Kid" MacPartland to a bloody draw in his last ring appearance, in Illinois. Mr. Warner Jr. now bets on race horses...
...slapsticky adaptation of James Gleason & Richard Taber's Odyssey of a dim-witted pugilist and his pessimistic trainer. A grinning, guffawing, snickering audience testified that the film version is likely to prove as successful as the stage original...
Gene Tunney, champion heavyweight pugilist of the world: "I was called "high hat" again last week. This time it was in an editorial in the New York World, after a report that I had declined to dine with Jack Dempsey on the grounds that appearances might be compromised if we became too friendly. The editorial said: 'Somebody ought to take this Mr. Tunney aside and explain to him just what the heavyweight championship of the world really is. It is not, as he seems to think, an ex-officio position in the Boy Scout movement. . . . It is, in fact...
...entries, it was announced, will be given a physical examination before their first bouts. The examination will be given when the process of weighing in the pugilist takes place at Hemenway at 4 o'clock today...
Subsequent examination developed that a pugilist is no stronger than his bridgework. Sharkey's right fist had torn loose one of McTigue's substitute molars. This tooth, driven through the upper gum, had met a large artery; caused a hemorrhage; lost the battle for its owner...