Word: welterweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...Frankie Petrolle, welterweight of Schenectady, N. Y., young brother of famed Billy ("Fargo Express''): a ten-round fight against onetime Featherweight Champion Christopher ("Bat") Battalino, whom Billy Petrolle has thrashed in two bloody fights this year (TIME, April 4; May 30); at Long Island City...
...Cowart spurned spirits of ammonia. Said he: "Gimme something to eat." He set off immediately on a curiosity tour of the Akron. After the ship was successfully moored later that evening, Sailor Cowart stubbornly refused to tell his story to reporters, despite the friendly coaxing of Commander Rosendahl. A welterweight boxer out for the All-Navy championship, he said: "I'll have to see my manager before I talk." His manager sold the story to the highest bidder, Hearst's Universal Service...
...Northern Pacific Railroad at Fargo, N. Dak. In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, where two years ago he won the most spectacular fight of his career against Jimmy McClarnin, ugly little Petrolle last week sat wrapped in his lucky Indian robe, scowling across the ring at a promising welterweight called Eddie Ran. Ran, knocked down three times in the first round, kept on trading punches until the sixth when Petrolle, who does most of his work with his left, surprised him into unconsciousness with a right. Petrolle's victory assured him of being rematched with Lightweight Champion Tony...