Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bronx, left him with a two-week growth of whiskers and an uncertain memory. After much patching together of diverse clues the police were able to track down in three cities four men (one a Negro) and a female octoroon, alleged members of a "ring." Taken with them were $17,000 of the Rosenthal $50,000 and a small book listing names of wealthy "prospects...
Nikki the aviators continue their attempts to improve their states of minds by antics with cab-horses, hotel elevators, the furniture in Nikki's apartment. Their final and most disastrous escapade is a trip to Lisbon. Here one of the aviators jumps into a bull ring and is gored to death by the bull. Another shoots a disagreeable reporter and runs away after the shooting. A third, accidentally hit by a bullet, expires in theatrical fashion, seated in a horse-cab. The fourth aviator (Richard Barthelmess) is left with Nikki...
Whenever he wins a fight, Welterweight Jimmy ("Baby Face") McLarnin turns a handspring in his corner of the ring before he makes the conventional gesture of clasping his hands and shaking them over his head. The trick is significant; it seems to be the expression of Celtic characteristics which have endeared him to a public which likes its pugilists Irish. Billy ("Fargo Express") Petrolle is another kind of fighter. Three years older than McLarnin-26-his face is scarred and flattened by the beatings he has received in the course of a long and intermittently successful career. When they were...
...familiar figure about training-camps, gymnasiums and other haunts of pugilists. Before every important fight he gave his expert opinion on who would win. In 1926 he allowed himself to be interviewed for Collier's. Said he: "My mother has pledged me against return to the ring. . . . They [promoters] know I've always kept my word. . . . I'll certainly keep it with my mother. . . . Unless you're a champion or a near champion, it's the dirtiest game in the world. . . ." A year ago Benny Leonard became boxing coach at the School of Business...
...what some observers estimated as high as 165, not discouraged by the fact that all his oldtime opponents have retired (to become, variously, a boxing instructor, policeman, haberdasher, poolroom proprietor, truant officer, referee, ironworker, gambler, newspaper vendor, sporting goods salesman), Benny Leonard announced his return to the ring. His onetime manager, Billy Gibson, was in a private sanatorium, but Leonard has taken up with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission...