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...dripping with perspiration, beat a small rubber ball against a wall, sock, sock, sock! They were Clarence C. Pell, National Racquets Champion, and Stanley G. Mortimer, his famed doubles partner, playing against each other in the annual singles "Gold Racquets" tourney at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. Pell won the first game, 15-6; Mortimer the second, 15-8; Pell the third, 18-13; Mortimer the fourth, 15-10; Pell the fifth and the tournament...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gold Racquets | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

...towel- soggy, bloodstained, ragged-sailed over the top rope of the fight ring in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Sock! it landed on the canvas, right at the heels of a battered little man with a streaming gash over his right eye. The little man was rocking to and fro under showers of blows from a furious, compact human whirlwind that flew now at his head, now at his ribs, now at his jaw, now at his pounding heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Kaplan | 1/12/1925 | See Source »

...Black Joe Gans, his head bending low, heard no gentle voices calling as he parted painfully with his "colored middle-weight championship." What he heard, and felt, was the "sock, sock" of dusky Larry Estridge's hard-driven mittens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk Fund | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

...Governor's son who would " sock " his enemies " in the eyeball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

...Sock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Nov. 19, 1923 | 11/19/1923 | See Source »

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