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...plan was devised last March. Communist delegates attended a "Southeast Asia Youth Conference" in Calcutta. A planeload of experts from Moscow came to give them their orders. Representing Burma was stout, 30-year-old Hari Narayan Goshal. From Malaya came Chinese Communist Lee Soong and from Australia, Laurence Sharkey, who flew back to Singapore with Lee for a two-week stay after the conference...
Primo Camera (Oct. 5, 1931), lost his heavyweight fight with Jack Sharkey at Ebbets Field OH Oct. 12 and his chance at the world's championship...
...Accuse me, if you will, of endorsing backwardness, indifference and ignorance, but let me ask, in return, whether we were not much happier when our rages involved [such matters as] whether the referee gave Tunney a long count or Dempsey hit Jack Sharkey...
...Greyhound Pig" is believed extinct, but Mr. Harding revived the memory of a sporting classic recorded in Sharkey's Racing Calendar for 1794. That year a "Greyhound Pig" was pitted against a race horse, the pig's backers being allowed to egg it on by whistling and shouting at the halfway mark and finish line. The pig won by a few feet, its owner taking...
...were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...