Word: welterweight
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...principals in San Francisco's first important title prizefight for 19 years, held last week, were Young Corbett (Raffaele Giordano of Fresno, Calif.) and Jackie Fields (Jacob Finkelstein of Chicago) who won the welterweight championship three years ago, lost it to young Jack Thompson, won it back last year from Lou Brouillard. Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with...
...Oakie) and his manager (William Collier Sr.). The manager takes the job of matchmaker at the Garden and the middleweight, left to shift for himself, falls into the hands of a racketeering manager. Partly because Oakie's opponent is Mushey Callahan, a onetime contender for the U. S. welterweight championship, the climactic prizefight is better organized than most such scuffles in the cinema. Callahan has plaster of Paris on his bandages to make his fists hard, but it is not enough to knock out Oakie. When the fight is over, Oakie reassures his girl (Marion Nixon), then goes, accompanied...
...toughest little bulldog in the ring is 174½-lb. Mickey Walker who started his career as a welterweight, won welterweight and middleweight championships, then became a heavyweight and fought Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey to a draw a year ago. Matched against Walker for the reward of a return fight against Sharkey last week was amiable, capable Max Siegfried Otto Schmeling, heavyweight champion until Sharkey won the title on a disputed decision last summer. As Advertised
...voting began Germany's welterweight Chancellor dashed up to her heavyweight Speaker, held out toward him von Hindenburg's decree dissolving the Reichstag. Brushing this aside, 210-lb. Hermann Goring shouted: "Can't you see that a vote is taking place?"; drew thunderous cheers...
...After winning the middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling championship. Ivar Johansson, Swedish policeman, took a Turkish bath instead of attending his victory ceremonies. Then, 11 lb. lighter, he won the welterweight Graeco-Roman wrestling championship. Other Graeco-Roman champions were Finnish Vaino Kokkinen, who defended his 1928 middle-weight championship; Carl Westergren, Swedish bus-driver, who won the middleweight championship in 1920, the lightweight championship in 1924, the heavyweight championship last week. ¶ Gymnasts competed in the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Scores after five days' competition: Italy, 541.85; U. S., 522.275; Finland...