Word: pugilistically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Thomas Forrest, 71, ex-pugilist, one time sparring partner of John L. Sullivan and Bob Fitzsimmons, at Coney Island, N. Y., frozen in his shack. Once wealthy, he lost his money. Friends obtained a shack for him, children of the neighborhood bought him a stove, firemen supplied his meals...
Died. William A. Miske, 29, St. Paul heavyweight pugilist, of acute Bright's disease, in Minneapolis. In 114 fights he was knocked out only once- by Jack Dempsey at Benton Harbor, Mich., in 1920. His last fight was with Bill Brennan,six weeks ago. He knocked Brennan out in the fourth round. In 1920, when attacked by Bright's disease for the first time, he said: "If I am going to die, it might as well happen in the ring as in bed. Tell me what to do and I will beat this sickness...
...Argentine, the pugilist Luis Angel Firpo smells the blood of an American. Two cables came last week inviting invasion. Bartley Madden refused an offer of $10,000. $3,200 for "any respectable contender" has found no favor...
...life of the professional baseball player is sketched, at least, in Heywood Broun's The Sun Field; the professional pugilist appears in Jim Tully's Emmett Lawlor; steel and iron workers, both masters and men, pass through the pages of Caret Garrett's The Cinder Buggy. But in spite of these and the vast number of semi-humorous or mechanically conventional "sport stories" or "labor stories" in our popular magazines?a good deal of modern American fiction seems to deal with a class of characters who form a very small minority of the population...
Jack Dempsey, champion pugilist: " Some months ago my brother John went to a dentist. The dentist now claims I promised to pay my brother's bill. The bill ($624.50) has not been paid. The dentist has gone to court...