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Middleweights fight at 160 Ibs. and have two current champions. French Marcel Thil, who won the title from Gorilla Jones five years ago on a foul, is recognized by the International Boxing Union, but the New York State Athletic Commission, and the National Boxing Association recognize Tacoma's Freddy Steele. This dilemma Promoter Jacobs resolved to his satisfaction. He imported Champion Thil, bullnecked, bulging-shouldered athletic oldster of 33, bald on his head but well furred on chest and back. By matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred...
...southern pine for paper pulp. After the War when every competitor was moving south to use cheap slash pine, Union still sat in a sleepy, War-fattened lethargy. In 1928 it was so grossly out of line that it actually built a sulphate mill in the spruce forests of Tacoma. Next year this white elephant was shut down at a loss of $2,060,000. Meanwhile Union lost money steadily in all the boom years. In 1929 it lost $750,000. In 1930, it sold less than a sixth of the 33,000,000,000 U. S. bags...
Died. Dave Miller, 36, manager of Middleweight Champion Freddie Steele; after a mastoid operation; in Tacoma, Wash...
...medal. Owney continued around the world by way of the Suez Canal and the Azores. All along the way he was met by bigwigs who awarded him medals. In Manhattan he remained only a few hours before he was whisked onto a westbound mail car. When he arrived in Tacoma, Wash., Owney had traveled round the world in 132 days. So in San Francisco, when he somehow got into a bench show with a houseful of snooty thoroughbreds, he was awarded another medal and a ribbon-for being the most traveled dog in the world...
...Champion Fischer's woods were crooked, his irons ragged his putter helpless, and he was beaten 6 & 5 by Ray Billows, straight-hitting, 23-year-old printing salesman of Poughkeepsie N. Y. In the other semi-final match Johnny Goodman, Omaha insurance salesman nosed out Marvin ("Bud") Ward, Tacoma tax clerk. That left Goodman v. Billows for the final...