Word: sharkey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...declared him legally incompetent. For a few years Wolgast had his freedom as a ward of Los Angeles Fight Promoter Jack Doyle. He had the run of Doyle's gym, worked out regularly, and still thought of himself as the champ. Such admiring oldtimers as Jim Jeffries, Tom Sharkey and Tommy Ryan dropped by to assure him that he still had his knockout punch. He demanded all the prerogatives of a titleholder, and was likely to swing on the first man who did not recognize his rank (but Doyle had issued orders that no one was ever...
Josephine Hull '99 is among the Cliffe alumna who will receive citations. Other recipients are: Cecilia P. Gaposchkin '25, Phillips astronomer at Harvard; Doris z Stone '30, associate in Anthropology at Tulane University; Cornelia J. Cannon '99, teacher and author; and Marian Sharkey Doyle '14, past vice president of the League of women Voters and a past member of the National Loyalty review Board...
Died. Thomas Joseph ("Sailor Tom") Sharkey,* 79, boxing great of the 1890s, always a contender, but never a champion ; of a heart disease; in San Francisco. Barrel-chested Tom Sharkey left his native Ireland at twelve to go to sea, knocked out 39 opponents in 54 fights, yet lost his crucial bouts with Heavyweight Champions Jim Jeffries, Bob Fitzsimmons and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. He came closest to the title in 1899 when he battled Jeffries at Coney Island for 25 rib-cracking rounds under a broiling bank of 400 arc lights (for an early attempt at indoor movies). After running...
...namesake, former (1932-33) Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey (born Josef Paul Cuckoschay...
...pickled his face and hands in beef brine, and became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...