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...terms. Last week a new poet struck his lyre, and to ears that could remember echoes, the minor strains were far older than Ruskin. Not so much for his gently conventional verse as for his U. S. background was Poet Lionel Wiggam notable. Twenty-year-old son of a welterweight champion and a farmer's daughter, he entered Northwestern University at 15, left to play in a stock company, hang wallpaper, work on a road-gang, as a janitor; went back to college on a scholarship when his poems began to be published. Meantime he was leading a literary...
Chief Little Wolf (né Tenario), a Navajo tribesman who started as a welterweight (145 lb.) and worked up to heavyweight, is the current red-skinned attraction. The Chief trains on raw meat, spends his spare time weaving blankets, fashioning bracelets and necklaces. Considered the Beau Brummell of the wrestling world, he sports huge sombreros, checked suits, fancy vests, embroidered boots. If his specialty, the Navajo war whoop, fails to prostrate his opponent, he employs the Indian Death Lock, a crushing leg hold...
Married. Jimmy McLarnin, 28, twice Welterweight Boxing Champion of the World; and Lillian Cupi,. Vancouver schoolteacher, his childhood sweetheart; in Vancouver...
...after being defeated in defense of it. Said he: "I think Ambers remembered the sparring partner days and that affected him psychologically. . . . I'll fight any challenger the Commission wants me to." Observers expected him to hold the title until Barney Ross, scheduled for a title bout with Welterweight Champion Jimmy McLarnin next week, considers it worth while to train down to the weight (135 lb.), take it away again...
...Miami, Junior Welterweight Champion Barney Ross defended his title against Frankie Klick of San Francisco after their ten-round bout had been postponed four days on account of cold. The crowd of 12,000, sprinkled with rain, stood up and howled with delight when Barney Ross was awarded the decision on points...