Word: sharkey
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Lamar suffered only one defeat in his ring career, in the quarterfinals of a tournament to decide the new World Champion after Gene Tunney retired from the ring. He was TKO'd by Jim Maloney, who then lost to the eventual winner, Jack Sharkey...
...today's pro-football standards) in 1930, when U.S. fight promoters and their underworld bosses found him fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won-on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted only a year, until Max Baer took away his title with eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds. Camera returned to Italy penniless, his purses siphoned away by his handlers, finally settling into a clownish career as a wrestler...
Villanova's Charlie Messenger won the individual title by lopping nearly nine seconds off the old record, set last year by Georgetown's Eamon O'Reilly. Messenger's time of 24:15.6 over the hilly five-mile course put him well in front of Michigan State's Dick Sharkey, who also broke the old mark...
...Sharkey had a sizeable lead on Messenger after four miles. But the Villanovan turned on the speed going up steep Cemetery Hill and pulled adead. Messenger increased his lead in the closing flat and won going away...
HERE LIES JEREMY TROY. In a comedy by Jack Sharkey, Troy is a lawyer (Will Hutchins) whose life is based on a series of misunderstandings. Murvyn Vye plays his boss, and Darren McGavin an artist friend. Skowhegan; Fitchburg, Mass.; Ogunquit; Dennis...