Word: raters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where Is Your Respect?" The man who leveled this blast was no third-rater. Gregarious, greying Leslie Roberts, 51, a longtime newsman, was executive assistant to Canada's Minister of National Defense in the early years of the war, later a war correspondent. Currently, he free-lances for such publications as the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Collier's and Canada's top slick, Maclean's. On the side, he turns out a thrice-weekly column for the Montreal Herald...
...only two fights left in him, said Joe. He would defend his crown, for the 24th time, in September. Probable victim: second-rater Joe Baksi (see PRESS). Then, in another year, he would give someone else a final chance at him, and then retire-as undefeated champion, he hoped...
This week Middleweight Rocky Graziano-who outdraws any fighter but Joe Louis in Madison Square Garden-admitted that he had been offered $100.000 to throw a fight. The offer was made in Graziano's dressing room two weeks before his scheduled bout with second-rater Ruben ("Cowboy") Shank...
After all, Fritzie figured, he had only been knocked out twice in his life, once by one Milt Aron, another time, with considerable insistence, by a third-rater named Laddie Tonelli. ("They coulda counted a thousand over me in fractions ... I was a goner.") When he fought a "retirement" fight in Memphis last year, a local newsman wired Zivic's home-town Pittsburgh Press to see whether it wanted a story about it. The reply: "Don't bother ... we have plenty of old ones in stock...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...