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Last week, 13 months before he was to defend his Presidential title against an as yet unnamed Republican challenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt jogged out of Washington for a 3,000-mile stretch of political roadwork. The odds, while narrowing, still favored him. But just as all champions must go barnstorming to keep their names before the fans. Champion Roosevelt felt it was not too early for him. to go through his paces for the benefit of some 50,000,000 voters who will turn thumbs up or down on him in 1936. Simultaneously he could gauge the fitness and morale...
Least familiar selection in the volume is Robert Davis' excellent story of the Fitzsimmons v. Corbett fight, beginning when Corbett, meeting Fitzsimmons doing roadwork, airily refused to shake hands with him. Sentimental, touchy Fitzsimmons was hurt, brooded over the slight, refused to shake hands when they met in the ring. He told Robert Davis he would win in the seventh, then changed it to the 14th. In the 14th his blow to the solar plexus left Corbett retching and helpless and Fitzsimmons champion of the world. After Corbett had been counted out Fitzsimmons offered again to shake hands with...
...early birds may get not only their traditional worm this week, but they will probably see eight muilled figures jogging through the early mists across the Anderson bridge to the Powerhouse bridge and return every morning. The Varsity mittmen have taken to roadwork, and their energy at the heathen hour is part of an intensive training increase wind and decrease weight for their fracas with the Bulldog on Saturday afternoon...
...after a committee of physicians had examined Baer's 210-lb. hulk, pronounced it hale, it seemed improbable that he would be a match for a champion who weighed 50 Ib. more, and stood 4 in. taller than he. Camera had trained with characteristic solemnity. Six weeks of roadwork, six daily rounds of boxing and a Spartan diet made his muscles swell with awesome health when he clambered into his corner of the ring at the Madison Square Garden bowl in Long Island City. When the bell rang for the first round, he lumbered earnestly out of his corner...
...since quarreled and made up seven times. When he left Reno for New York, he had with him a chauffeur, a valet, a dietitian and a present from Dorothy Dunbar, Emily Post's Book of Etiquette, which he read when he was supposed to be doing roadwork. Like Carnera, Baer has been sued by a waitress, one Olive Beck, whose claim of $250,000 for breach of promise he settled for $5,500. Last year he was divorced from Dorothy Dunbar. After defeating Max Schmeling, Max Baer played in vaudeville, was master of ceremonies in a nightclub, performed...