Word: pugilistically
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...Said Pugilist Schmeling: "Hello, Joe. How you feeling...
...York's Rikers Island jail 44-year-old Socialite Mrs. Madeleine Force Astor Dick Fiermonte visited her husband, 30-year-old onetime Pugilist Enzo Fiermonte. Haled into court to answer a three-year-old speeding charge by police who arrested him while he was tinkering his swank racing car at Roosevelt Raceway, he had received a severe judicial reprimand, a sentence of five days which he spent washing windows...
...after his defeat by Schmeling, Pugilist Louis regained prestige. Champion Braddock and his manager presently decided a bout with Louis might be more profitable than a bout with Schmeling. They signed a contract for that one also. The contracts were mutually exclusive but the ethics of pugilism are such that no one was much surprised at this nor by Champion Braddock's announcement that he had no intention of living up to his contract with Schmeling. Only unusual feature of the affair was the behavior of Pugilist Schmeling...
With what sportswriters regarded as an extraordinary disregard for professional conventions, Pugilist Schmeling announced that he would live up to his end of his bargain. Backed by Madison Square Garden Corp., which publicized the fight, and printed tickets for it, he went into training for a month at Speculator, N. Y., announced that he was confident of winning by a knockout. Only detail in all this preparation that admitted that neither Schmeling nor the Garden actually expected the fight to take place was that on the tickets, of which 43 were sold as curios, Schmeling's name was misspelled...
...Commission merely voted to fine Braddock and his manager $1,000 each, suspend the champion for an indefinite period. In such a rage that a scheduled radio talk in which he was to tell the public his side of the story had to be canceled as too violent, Pugilist Schmeling promptly sailed back to Germany. Boxing critics predicted the outcome: a bout between Schmeling and the winner of the Louis-Braddock fight (June 22), either this September or next spring...