Word: welterweight
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...pictures, "In This Corner. . .", a glimpse of a negro welterweight hunched on his stool under the shadow of his handlers while the referee howls out the announcements, and "The Neighborhood Champ," a picture of an ugly plug climbing into the ring while his uglier friends cheer, deserve especial attention. Mr. Riggs has succeeded in catching excellently the impact of the environment on the different personalities, the tenseness of the fighters, the nonchalance of the handlers, and the exhibitionism of the referee...
...amateur, he turned professional. When an opponent broke two ribs on his right side, he tried boxing lefthanded. Says he: "When the ribs are cured, I can't go back to fighting right-handed again. Je reste gaucher." Shortly after his first professional bout, Lou Brouillard won the welterweight (147 Ib.) championship, lost it three months later to Jackie Fields. Now 22 and 160 lb., he plans to win the light heavyweight championship from Maxie Rosenbloom next year. When he goes to a strange town to fight, Champion Brouillard makes a habit of selecting favorable sites for lunch-wagons...
...Jimmy ("Babyface") McLarnin, hammer-fisted Vancouver fighter: the world's welterweight championship; by knocking out Champion Young Corbett III in 2 min. 30 sec.; in Los Angeles. ¶ The New York Yankees: a ballgame against Philadelphia, 17 to 11, with three runs in the second inning, one in the third, ten in the fifth, and three in the eighth when Babe Ruth clouted his tenth homer of the season with two men on base; in Manhattan. The Athletics scored all their runs in one inning, the third. Yankee Pitcher Walter Brown fanned 12 men in six and one-third...
...newsboy named Jeffries. James J. Corbett's brother ran a pool room; Raffaele Giordano bought his father a pool room out of his ring earnings, bought himself a service station when, after beating Young Jack Thompson in an overweight match, it began to seem likely that no welterweight champion would dare share a ring with...
...First was the late James John ("Gentleman Jim") Corbett, son of a San Francisco livery-stable owner. First "Young Corbett" was George Green of San Francisco who thrashed Mysterious Billy Smith for the welterweight championship in 1897. "Terrible Terry" McGovern lost his featherweight championship to the second "Young Corbett" (William Rothwell...