Word: uzcudun
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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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...
Last week saw the second installment of Tex Rickard's heavyweight boxing elimination contest, being intermittently staged in Madison Square Garden in Manhattan. (TIME, Feb. 21) One Paolino Uzcudun, Spaniard, unofficial champion of several European precincts, climbed into the ring with one Knute Hansen,* semi-ferocious great Dane. At the end of ten mildly bloody rounds Uzcudun's hand was held aloft by the referee in token of victory. The small crowd was amused but unimpressed; predicted an early cropper for Paolino...