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...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Still a Good Man | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Beau Jack v. Terry Young (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC Television). Ten-round lightweight bout at Madison Square Garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Private Sidney ("Beau Jack") Walker, 23, Fort Benning, Ga.; his first fight since entering the Army ten weeks ago; by defeating Lightweight Champion Private Bob Montgomery of Keesler Field, Miss., in a ten-round, nontitle bout at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Gate receipts: $35,864,900 in War Bonds. The 14-month-old feud now stands at two victories for Jack, two for Montgomery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 14, 1944 | 8/14/1944 | See Source »

...prison camp in South Africa's Transvaal, two Italian soldiers last week fought a rousing ten-round battle for the welterweight championship of the crumbling Italian Empire. One was Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Prison Fight | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

...just a half-inch under six feet tall, is neither little nor does he bear much resemblance to the world's heavyweight champion. But the way the skinny 139-pounder brushed off onetime Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic-steel-tough, ring-wise and seven pounds heavier-in a ten-round match at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week showed that another Negro was punching his way into ring history. In 115 fights, amateur and professional, Robinson has never been licked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boogie-Woogie Bomber | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

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