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...Tony out back, where a lopsided Everlast bag still swings from a tree, Gerry lost his first bout?to a girl. In a childhood cluttered with embarrassments, this was not an unusual event. "As a kid, I had so many complexes," says Cooney, tugging an ever present brown scalley cap over his eyes, giggling. "Skinny, knock-kneed?6 ft. 1 in., 130 Ibs.?pimples, big nose, big ears . . . What are you getting such a laugh out of?" He is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Puncher Goes for It: Gerry Cooney and Larry Holmes | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...absolute worst thing in life is to be alone." On one car trip to the hospital for a cobalt treatment, Tony had turned to him and said: "I'd rather crawl to the hospital than ride with you if you won't live in our house." Now the scalley cap is pulled down because Gerry is crying. Tony died shortly after his son won a second Golden Gloves, as a heavyweight. Cooney might have tried for the 1976 Olympics, but says sullenly, "I lost my taste for fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Puncher Goes for It: Gerry Cooney and Larry Holmes | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...turn around just in time to see some dude wearing a Gate of Heaven bowling jacket and a scalley cap, his mind stoked with bennies, float by. His eyes are as big as five-cent gumballs. He has a silly smile on his face and a seven-inch knife in his back pocket. Yes, there will be a jam this afternoon at the Arena...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: 'Hey Riley! Hey Riley you bum! | 2/7/1970 | See Source »

Police identified the four as: Ronald D. Gildair, 19, William J. Scalley, 21, Brian P. Stone, 20, and Ronald J. Bohannan, 21, all of Somerville...

Author: By James M. Fallows, | Title: Two Students Beaten; One on Critical List | 1/15/1968 | See Source »

...eighteen; Cornell third, winning three out of eighteen; and Yale fourth, having lost all of her bouts. Harvard, Pennsylvania, and Princeton failed to qualify. In the semi-finals, Harvard was defeated by Yale by the score of seven to two. The bouts resulted as follows: A. C. Scalley (Y.) defeated C. A. Bliss '08; W. F. Low '07 defeated G. Hass (Y.); B. H. Smith (Y.) defeated G. L. Cutting '09; G. Hass (Y.) defeated C. A. Bliss '08; W. F. Low '07 defeated B. H. Smith (Y.); A. C. Scalley (Y.) defeated G. L. Cutting '09; B. H. Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Result of Intercollegiate Fencing | 4/1/1907 | See Source »

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