Word: schaaf
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kingfish Levinsky might rank as best fighter in the U. S. In the last 15 months, gates at his fights with Slattery, Griffiths, Camera, Paulino and an exhibition bout against Jack Dempsey have amounted to $254,124.68. He may this year earn more than Schmeling, Sharkey, Dempsey, Camera or Schaaf. Kingfish Levinsky's earning power is due partly to an engaging slapstick manner in the ring, an engaging entourage which includes his sister Mrs. Lena ("Leaping Lena") Levy, famed for her loud voice and strong talk. It is due partly to the fact that most of Levinsky...
...Ernie Schaaf, a pale, bulky young Bostonian, was one of Jack Sharkey's sparring partners until Sharkey, thinking Schaaf showed sufficient promise to be groomed for the heavyweight championship, became his manager and got him a fight with Max Baer, which Schaaf won. Schaaf, who has won 20 of his last 30 fights, last week went to Chicago to fight William Lawrence ("Young") Stribling, who was beaten last July in Max Schmeling's sole effort to defend the heavyweight championship...
Though his nickname is no longer entirely apposite, experts have not yet considered Stribling too old to be effective. Of late he has been bothered by lumbago in his back. His left hand, often broken at the knuckles, has to be desensitized with cocaine every time he fights. Against Schaaf, Stribling found this left hand peculiarly ineffective. Sharkey, who beat Stribling in 1929, had apparently coached his protégé to avoid it and Schaaf pounded Stribling in the body till the fourth round. Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf...
...Tommy Loughran, limber, cautious, dexterous Philadelphia heavyweight: a ten-round fight with Ernie Schaaf, pale protege of Jack Sharkey. Two years ago Sharkey knocked out Loughran. Last week Sharkey said: "If Loughran beats Schaaf, I'll fight him again...
Sticking out his posterior, lowering his head belligerently, Max Baer,* California heavyweight, possessor of a 16-cylinder car, confident manners and many suits of flashy clothes, charged out of his corner in Madison Square Garden last week and began to lambaste the ribs and features of Ernie Schaaf† of Elizabeth, N. J. Schaaf backed away and countered. In Schaaf's corner Jack Sharkey, working as second, poured advice into his ear: "Keep him out with your left. He don't know nothing." Baer, it is true, knows little about boxing, but his blows recently killed Frankie Campbell...