Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with his left. As a sparring partner of Joe Louis' eleven years ago, he had used that punch to put Big Joe on the floor one day. (Louis doesn't remember ever having been floored in training. Says Walcott: "I knocked Joe down in the very first round with a right hand punch that landed on the whiskers. They paid me $25 and hustled me out of camp for saying that Louis couldn't savvy my style. That's on the square and the champ can't deny it.") That was the punch that knocked...
...third round, people were beginning to wonder what was the matter with Joe Louis. He kept shuffling forward, a bald spot visible on the crown of his 33-year-old head, stalking his man as he always did-careful, tense, relentless. But whenever Big Joe got set, Jersey Joe danced nimbly out of range. He bobbed and weaved, dropped his guard, ambled to the left, then the right, jiggled his feet, turned southpaw at times. He backed up-but not into the ropes: he had too much ring smartness for that. Louis, always moving forward, looked like the aggressor...
...round four, Jersey Joe belted the champ on the whiskers again. This time, when Joe Louis hit the floor, it looked as if he might stay there. He got up at the count of seven. Gradually, through the swelling roar, people realized that they were seeing a Joe Louis who had lost his stuff. Once he had used a deadly counterpunch as his best defense. Now, his reflexes were too slow. In the ninth, he had his best round, slugging it out with his lighter (by 16½ lbs.) foe. But Jersey Joe Walcott, backed into the ropes, took...
...Louis, a forlorn figure, got booed for the first time in his long ring career. The cheers were for Jersey Joe. The fact is that Walcott probably deserved the decision-even if no one deserved to win a world's heavyweight championship by riding a bicycle the last round. Louis, some $190,000 richer and still champion despite his weary legs and battered face, shuffled over to Walcott and said apologetically: "I'm sorry...
...busy week of hard, sweaty riding and roping, Bob Kleberg and his men round up as many as 1,400 calves, and mark another 3,500 steers, calves and cows for the dinner tables of the U.S. Already this year the King Ranch has sent 19,110 cattle to market, enough to supply half the people of the U.S. with a hamburger. This feat, worthy of Pecos Bill, is old stuff to Bob Kleberg...