Word: spalla
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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Heavyweight Spalla (Italy...
Most people considered Jack Johnson a cooked coon when the doors of Leavenworth Prison closed behind him. Not so Johnson. He has signed articles to fight Erminio Spalla, Italian champion who aroused Premier Mussolini to ecstatic eulogy, in Newark during the latter part of August. Owing to Johnson's age and his criminal activities, it is doubtful whether the authorities will countenance the bout...
Jack Kearns, manager for Dempsey: " Jack Dempsey will defend his title any time and any place against either Willard, Firpo or Wills. It is a case of first come, first served." Benito Mussolini, in a telegram to Ermino Spalla, an Italian, when Spalla won the European heavyweight championship from Vandeveer, a Dutchman: " I embrace you. Now prepare yourself for the supreme trial. Having become champion of Europe, you must become champion of the world...
Jack Dempsey, whom Spalla forthwith challenged: " I will fight any of them, but just now I have about all the fighting I can attend to. If I clean up on this side of the water I will be walling to take on the European fighter...