Word: welterweight
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...California, one Milton K. Young is running for the Republican gubernatorial nomination against Governor Clement Calhoun Young. In Massachusetts, Walter I. Butler, onetime welterweight boxing champion of New England, is out for the Republican Senatorial nomination against Villiam Morgan Butler, onetime chairman of the Republican National Committee. But in no State is the confusion of similar or identical names on a primary ballot greater than in Nebraska where a reform law prohibits any distinguishing mark or address after a candidate's name...
...Jimmy McLarnin, Irish welterweight who wears a harp on his bathrobe, turns handsprings in the ring whenever he gets a decision, scorns any bout that brings him less than $20,000: a decision in Madison Square Garden from Negro Young Jack Thompson, in spite of the fact that Thompson had won six out of the ten rounds and that McLarnin had repeatedly been warned for hitting...
...death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge. He became an adept gymnast, an expert Greco-Roman wrestler. He entered the lightweight national tournament, won it; challenged Chicago's welterweight champion, flattened him in four minutes; challenged Chicago's Heavyweight Champion Frank Whitmore, downed him in 91 minutes. After unsuccessful tries as acrobat and laundryman, Macfadden announced himself as a "kinistherapist, teacher of higher physical culture." He wrote a novel, The Athlete's Conquest, was shocked to learn...
Much more curdling was this bout than last fortnight's fiasco in Detroit when the welterweight (147 lb.) championship changed hands. In the second round Challenger Jackie Fields (1924 Olympic amateur featherweight winner) jarred the big jaw and midsection of Champion Joe Dundee, who lurched to his hands and knees. He was scarcely up at the count of "nine!" when the fast Fields deposited him again on the canvas. Dundee crawled across the ring. Then he reared swiftly and, as Fields jumped forward, discharged a long right-handed foul which sent the challenger writhing to the floor and automatically made...
Sued for Divorce. Edward Patrick ("Mickey") Walker, of Elizabeth, N. J., world's welterweight boxing champion; by Mrs. Margaret Kelly Walker. Allegation: cruelty...