Word: pugilists
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...getting out of the train and running along beside it. Later he wins the mile race by accident when chasing a girl on a motorcycle to give her a letter. Lady & Gent (Paramount). Throughout this picture George Bancroft has a miserable time. He is Slag Bailey, a superannuated pugilist who turns up drunk for the bout on which his manager (James Gleason) has bet their last nickel. Beaten, his ruin is completed when his mistress. Puff (Wynne Gibson), has her night club wrecked by gangsters, when his manager gets shot while opening a fight club's safe. While Puff...
Rehearsing a fight scene last week, a professional pugilist forgot to pull his punches, knocked out Film Actor James Dunn, suspended work on the picture for two weeks...
...letter in boxing last year and in his bouts this season has won two and lost one. He fights in the 165-pound class. In the Dartmouth match he won his bout by a decision, and did the same when fighting against a New Hampshire pugilist. He was defeated by Bubb of Yale last Saturday...
...Centre Fielder John Leonard ("Pepper") Martin of the St. Louis Cardinals; for his performance in the 1931 World Series against the Philadelphia Athletics: an Associated Press poll of experts on "the outstanding individual achievement in sports." Second was U. S. Tennis Champion Ellsworth Vines. ¶Primo Camera, gargantuan Italian pugilist: a judgment for $63,017 against his midget Anglo-French manager, Leon See; for moneys which Camera had earned in what most U. S. experts considered fraudulent boxing exhibitions and which, according to Camera, See had invested, without his permission, in fraudulent gold mine stock...
...Flat-faced, awkward King Levinsky Chicago heavyweight pugilist and onetime fishmonger, encouraged by the shrieks and squeals of his sister and manager Mrs. Lena Levy: a ten-round bout against slick-haired, skilful Tommy Loughran, who was three times knocked clown by Levinsky's right hand; in Manhattan...