Word: welterweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Freeman, Cleveland welterweight: the world's championship of his class on the decision of a hometown referee in a 15-round bout with flashy black Jack Thompson of Oakland, Calif, who had him on the floor in the second round, made him reel in the seventh, and kept on even terms with him all through...
Holder of no title but conceded by some critics to be the best boxer in the modern prizering, Chocolate's idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored...
...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...