Word: uzcudun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time George Godfrey has demanded what he thinks he deserves-a match with Tunney. Only a few sharp-eyed critics have warned George Godfrey that the trouble with demanding what he deserves is that he might get it. Last week in Los Angeles George Godfrey met squatty Paolino Uzcudun, Basque, who still has to bring an interpreter to the ring so that he can understand what the referee says. Forty-four pounds lighter than the black man, Paolino lost the decision in a ten round bout made up mostly of clinches...
There is always a blackamoor in the pugilistic woodpile. Recently Harry Wills, for many years dark menace to the supremacy of two-fisted whites, was dismissed from the woodpile by a knockout at the hand of Paolino Uzcudun. The place of Mr. Wills was last week acquired by George Godfrey, 228½-pound blackamoor actor* of Leiperville, Pa. Mr. Godfrey disposed of Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn...
...usually in accordance with what TIME says concerning topics of general information but I certainly do protest when I encounter a magazine like TIME stating things which are misleading. I am referring to what you state concerning Paolino Uzcudun, the well-known pugilist. (This appeared in your number of July...
When speaking of the latter again it would be much more appropriate to call him Sr. (Senor) Paolino Uzcudun and not M. Uzcudun...
...ghost of the reputation as a heavyweight fighter of Harry Wills, onetime Negro stevedore, now an affluent Negro bank depositor. The horizontal departure of Mr. Wills's shadow was effected by a grotesque human with thicket eyebrows, a blasted mouth and arms and legs like bent ingots-Paolino Uzcudun, woodchopper from the Basque country (southwest France). M. Uzcudun, not bothering to protect his already hopeless face from Mr. Wills's outlashing fists, waited until the fourth round to bash Mr. Wills over backwards against the ropes, down on the floor, down on the floor again. Then M. Uzcudun...