Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Clarence Hackney of Atlantic City, highly stimulated by that northern air, finished five strokes ahead of Tom Kerrigan of Mount Vernon, N. Y., runner-up last year to Al Watrous of Radford, Mich, (who did not compete this year...
...ended the ring career of Mike Gibbons after 15 years fighting. Oculists pronounce the injury which left one eye virtually sightless, received in training, incurable. Gibbons known as " The Phantom " in his time was one of the greatest of the middleweights. He is the elder brother of Tom Gibbons, Dempsey's opponent at Shelby...
Tarnish. Gilbert Emery, short story writer, actor and picturesque dictator of CzechoSlovakian towns for a brief period of the War, has written this play about the instability of human reputation. Tom Powers and Fania Marinoff head the cast...
...took Nuxated Iron faithfully all through my training," said Jack Dempsey at his Shelby headquarters after the 15-round fight in which he retained his world's championship by decision over Tom Gibbons. In an extended interview given to a representative of this singular specific, Dempsey revealed secrets that should virtually revolutionize the progress of the prize ring. It seems that Dempsey has taken large quantities of the Iron as a staple of his training diet before all his championship struggles...
...thing to give credit where credit is due; it is quite another to imperil one's livelihood by excessive feelings of gratitude. Dempsey and Kearns, in their blind enthusiasm, have given to Tom Gibbons the key to his one vital shortcoming. He lacked that ounce of ferocity, that ecstasy of endurance that Nuxated Iron, according to the implication of Dempsey's statement, alone can give...