Word: welterweight
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...prison camp in South Africa's Transvaal, two Italian soldiers last week fought a rousing ten-round battle for the welterweight championship of the crumbling Italian Empire. One was Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
After the match, Winner (on points) Manca was offered a match with South African Welterweight Champion Lieut. Laurie Stevens, stationed at nearby Pretoria. Manca accepted, with one stipulation: half the proceeds must go to Italian prisoners of war in South Africa, half to South African prisoners in Italy...
Everybody loves a comeback. Last week flat-faced, chocolate-colored little Henry Armstrong, who once held the feather, light-and welterweight championships of the world simultaneously, endeared him self to the ring fans with one of the fightingest comebacks that ever lost the judges' decision. His defeat was a great success...
...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...
With Bill Wilson, who took a body beating at Ann Arbor, a doubtful starter against the Bruins, Harlow has only one semi-hale wingback, Cleo O'Donnell, and the speedy welterweight has a lacerated...