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Wednesdays, Too. Guadalcanal has a lot of amateur and professional talent. Promoter of the fights is Sergeant John Williams, two-time welterweight winner of Chicago's Golden Gloves. Like any smart ring operator, he sponsors preliminary bouts on Wednesdays to give new fighters experience. His stable of 150 fighters is headed by Marine Moe Weiss of The Bronx, middleweight winner of 50 out of 57 pro bouts before enlisting, and his twin brother Harvey...
Lance Corporal Tommy McGrath, an ama teur senior welterweight from Cardiff, Wales, was the sole British winner...
Rain and mud did not dampen fans' enthusiasm, especially the Arabs'. They lost their robes betting on their hero, Private Omar Koudri of the French Army, who was badly cut by the Fifth Army's Larry Cisneros of Los Angeles, Calif., fourth-ranking welterweight in prewar...
Mickey Walker, the "Toy Bulldog," used to be famed for the wicked left hook that made him middleweight and welterweight king of the '20s. Now he has shifted hands, changed to a gaudy right. The old master has become an artist, a painter of genuine oil paintings...
Fifteen thousand fans had paid over $60,000 to see Henry Armstrong because he had once been a pugilistic blitzkrieg. The flat-faced little boxer was the only fighter ever to hold three titles simultaneously-feather, light and welterweight. For five years it was a near certainty that chocolate-colored Henry Armstrong's opponents would eventually crumble before the inhuman, tireless onslaught of will and pounding fists. Last week at Madison Square Garden, the Armstrong repertory of lethal motions was on display, but the crucial Armstrong hammer was no longer part of the equipment. If it had not been...