Word: sharkey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...professional fights-since the night in 1934 when he got $50 for knocking out one Jack Kracken-the Brown Bomber has been defeated only once (by Max Schmeling), has knocked out all but seven of his opponents, including five onetime world's champions (Braddock, Camera, Baer, Sharkey, Schmeling), has successfully defended his title eight times in the past two years. This record gives Joe Louis a fisticuffer's summa cum laude...
Primo Carnera, onetime side-show freak and carnival wrestler, beat Jack Sharkey in six rounds and became heavyweight champion of the world in 1933. Fighting all over Europe and the U. S., Carnera, a bewildered, grinning hulk, probably earned a million dollars. His managers got most of it. He threw most of his away, then disappeared from U. S. sport pages after Negro Leroy Haynes knocked him out twice. Two months ago word came from France that Primo Carnera had been knocked out by a sparring partner while training for a comeback...
...late George Bellows' unsurpassed Stag at Sharkey's and Dance in a Madhouse...
...there was a prize fight between Jack Sharkey and Mickey Walker in a baseball park in Brooklyn. The promoters sold exclusive motion picture rights to Rudolph Mayer Pictures. Inc. Pathe News, Inc. installed a camera on a nearby building and made movies of the fight. New York's courts refused to allow Pathe. to distribute or exhibit their films, upheld the exclusive contract of Mayer Pictures...
When the heavyweight title changes hands, as it has done five times in the past seven years, the U. S. sporting public anticipates 1) dissatisfaction with the fight, 2) confusion after it. In 1930 Max Schmeling won the title from Jack Sharkey on a foul. In 1932 Sharkey won it back on a decision which many experts considered erroneous. In 1933, Primo Camera knocked out Jack Sharkey with what looked like a gentle push. In 1934, clownish Max Baer knocked out Camera in an eccentric bout. In 1935, Braddock outpointed Baer in a hopelessly dull bout. Last week...