Word: welterweight
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...Astor in the mid-'20s, burned last March off Halifax, ≤≤ Bea Lillie gave a benefit performance in food-rationed England, was awarded 24 tomatoes, 14 eggs and six heads of lettuce-not thrown, but delivered, ≤≤ Private "Bummy" Davis, beaten to a pudding by Welterweight Champ Fritzie Zivic, went A.W.O.L. when he got out of Army hospital on Governors Island, wound up in the guardhouse. He will be returned to Camp Hulen, Tex. under armed guard...
...sportswriter (the late W. O. McGeehan) used to call it "the manly art of modified murder." And modified murder was what this particular boxing match looked like. In Manhattan's Polo Grounds 27-year-old Fritzie Zivic, world's welterweight champion, met 21-year-old Abraham Davidoff, U.S. Army private known in the ring as, Al ("Bummy") Davis, in about that was bloodier than a bullfight...
Young Conn, a handsome Irish toughie, brought up in Pittsburgh's brawl-proud East Liberty section, had been fighting since he was 14. He got his upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
...While still in grammar school, Canada ran away from home, became a stable boy and jockey in Canada, moved back to Harlem after a couple of years. He won 90 out of 100 amateur fights and the national amateur lightweight title, turned pro in 1926, was heading for the welterweight title in 1930 when he got socked so hard in the left eye that today it is almost blind. He had made $75,000 fighting, had blown it away big-timing in Harlem. Afterwards he led an unsuccessful jazz band, hit the breadlines, got into Harlem...
Last week little Henry faced Zivic again, in a do-or-die attempt to win back the welterweight title. Armstrong had just received the Neil Memorial Trophy, annually awarded to the most praiseworthy fighter of the year. He will take Zivic this time, fight fans figured, now that surgeons have removed the bothersome scar tissue from around his eyes. But before the first round was over, the crowd realized how wrong they were. Instead of his customary windmill attack, Armstrong tried to box, scarcely landed a blow. In awesome silence they watched round after round. The tiny dynamo, after...