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...unfortunate that Louis could not have remained retired; that would have been far more fitting. But Louis does not lose a great deal of luster by his defeat, for posterity will remember him as the patient, deadly stalker. There will be heavyweight boxing champions for decades to come, a fact which will become easier to accept as the years pass. Right now it is not so easy...
Boxing fans remember Joe Louis as a relentless stalker with dynamite in his punch, who held the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship for eleven years, defended it successfully 25 times. Two years ago, at 34, Joe made his final title defense against cautious Jersey Joe Walcott. He won by a knockout in eleven sluggish rounds while ringsiders shook their heads. Joe was slow and flabby; his bald spot was showing. Joe hung up his gloves...
Died. Captain Frederick John Walker, 48, "Nelson of the little ships," crafty, courageous stalker of U-boats; of a heart attack; somewhere in England. A Navy man for 34 years, a four-time winner of the D.S.O., balding, sunken-eyed Walker led the Royal Navy's Second Escort Group, a flotilla of five sloops. His uncanny nose for pigboats netted his flotilla a score...
...second period, the B. U. goalle, Bud Stalker, had his three front teeth knocked out by a puck off Mechem's stick. Having no substitute goalie, Bill Sanders, who started at defense, took over in the nest. In the last period Harvard chalked up five goals to pulverize the Terriers...
...Stalker E. Reed -- Miss Carolyn Kelly, New York City...