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¶Filipino fight fans took exception to Featherweight Champion Sandy Sadler's rough-and-ready tactics in a nontitle fight with Manila favorite Flash Elorde. While Sandy was firing at Flash with head and elbow, the crowd was taking pot shots at the ring with stones and pop bottles...
In this uproarious memoir Cordelia Drexel Biddle (now Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson) serves up a Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully...
Even at 61, the broken-nosed, greying little battler was more than a match for most men. It took two husky hospital attendants to handle him when they decided to get him under control. He got a chestful of broken ribs during the mauling, but he recovered quickly enough. He...
Value Received. In London, after Eddie Hearn beat him on points in eight rounds, Heavyweight Boxer Fred Powell complained bitterly that he had signed for a ten-rounder, persuaded the referee to continue the fight, was knocked out in the tenth round.
Last year's champion in the 125-lb, class, Jim Bresnahan of Dudley lost to Bob Weiler as the Dunster boxer won on a referee's decision. Norm Wyner of Winthrop House, last year's winner in the 145-lb. division, defeated fast-starting Stacy Holmes of the Funsters by...