Word: welterweight
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That is how some people thought it would be when it was announced that Mickey Walker, world's welterweight champion, was to fight Dave Shade, the Californian who had been three years trying to pick just this scrap, before Tex Rickard accommodated him and fixed the place of the bout in the Yankee Stadium in New York City...
...began to weave about each other, glaring. Since the spring evening upon which they had simultaneously established their reputations, Berlenbach had been disqualified for stalling in a bout against Tony Marullo (TIME, July 27), and Slattery been knocked unconscious by a blow from the fist of David Shade, welterweight (TIME, July 13). The stalling, many thought was quite to be expected from a onetime taxidriver; the knockout was a regrettable accident. Nevertheless, as the two squared off, not a few, who had learned through experience the pathetic fallacy of style, had their money on Berlenbach...
...bright speed, whose cruelly efficient hands, led the canny to acclaim him as a new Corbett (TIME, June 8), had been promised almost $17,000 if he would devote a few brisk moments to one David Shade* from California. It was not fair, people said-Shade was only a welterweight, while Slattery had defeated Jack Delaney, one of the best of the light heavies...
Greb vs. Walker. Another tough little man against a tough bigger man-Michael Walker, the welterweight champion, Harry Greb, the best middleweight in the world. Both are muscled all over like pumas; both fight hardest when they are hurt. Referee Edward Purdy foresaw a difficult evening. In the first few rounds, he hovered about, breaking clinches, warily eyeing navels, while Walker slashed and bashed, uppercutted, jabberwocked and jamboureed, with the crowd roaring and Greb, never unhappy, hitting back. Referee Purdy scuttled out of the way as best he could in the next rounds, while Greb came in, his windmill arms...
...social" breakfast; the Congressional members of a Commission appointed to arrange the celebration of the 200th anniversary (in 1932) of the birth of George Washington, for breakfast; Frank J. Irwin, National Commander of the Disabled American Veterans to discuss plans for adequate hospital facilities for veterans; Mickey Walker, welterweight boxing champion, to present a pair of five-ounce boxing gloves with the injunction: "Use 'em on your next Congress;" George Spring Meyer, of Reno, to present a photograph of the graduating class of 1890 at Black River Academy at Ludlow, Vt., containing three girls and five youths...