Word: uzcudun
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...efforts to do so started in disgraceful failure. In the first big match he staged, Paulino Uzcudun knocked out an overrated Canadian named Soldier Jones in two minutes. To rehabilitate himself Promoter Dickson put Paulino into the ring against an English fighter named Harry Drake. Boxer Drake was so terrified at the sight of his bronzed opponent from the Pyrenees that it took several handlers to push him into the ring. There was a quick and ugly knockout and variorum reports of what happened to Promoter Dickson, who was supposed to have been hit on the head with a wine...
...managers, a pair of dusky financiers from Detroit and Chicago, plan to eliminate Isadoro Gastanaga in Havana Dec. 29, Charley Retzlaff in Chicago the following month, one-time Champion Max Schmeling in New York City in June. A routine incident in this schedule included the elimination of Paulino Uzcudun at Madison Square Garden last week...
...leap as nimbly in pursuit of a bag of aniseed as they do following a real live fox. Boxer Louis' amazing speed, poise and general genius might have been observed as fully had he worked out with a punching bag instead of a real, live human like Paulino Uzcudun. But neither fox hunters nor fight fans get full fun out of bags, which was the only reason for 20,000 people paying $128,000 to see an animated bronze statue pitted against a lumpy Spaniard a full decade past his prime. The billing was that nobody had knocked...
Like a dentist trying to get his pliers into the mouth of a terrified, wriggling patient, Louis stalked around the ring watching the bobbing head and flailing elbows of Uzcudun. waiting for the moment when the Spaniard's jaw would offer a fleeting target. The moment finally arrived. The blow that ended the fight was the sort that a fat bartender lays into an objectionable drunk. Its progress was slow, inevitable, evident to all present. It laid Uzcudun flat on his back. It also opened his cheek, drove one of his teeth through...
...dressing room, Uzcudun observed in his limited English that Louis "hits too hard...