Word: uzcudun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Max Baer, 22, heavyweight boxer, loser of a 20-rouncl decision to Paulino Uzcudun last fortnight; and Mrs. Dorothy Dunbar Wells, 38, divorced cinemactress; in Reno. Said she: 'If he insists on following the light game, I'm going to see that he gets the proper in struction." Said Mother (Dora) Baer: "Why she's old enough to be Maxie's mother...
From 75,000 people-reputedly the biggest crowd that ever watched a sporting event in Spain-a roar went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle...
...hard for a short man to uppercut a tall man's jaw, but Paulino Uzcudun found how to do it. He would swing a left into the ribs of Otto Von Porat, lantern-jawed Norwegian, and as Von Porat's head came down it would meet a right hand whisking up. Bettors who had figured that the Norwegian had two chances of landing the best punches for every chance squat Uzcudun had of staying away from them, cheered when, in the first round, Uzcudun spread his legs to keep from falling. After that Uzcudun kept his chin...
...Otto von Porat v. Paulino Uzcudun, at Madison Square Garden. Manhattan...