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Britons wanted something to make them feel better, and London's press had built Heavyweight Bruce Woodcock, a conscientious pug-ugly, into a minor national symbol of hope. Then Joe Baksi, an invader from the U.S., rudely flattened the symbol by breaking Woodcock's jaw in the first round and going on to a seventh-round technical knockout. The BBC announcer made the fight sound as if a big bully had picked on a nice little man in the street who was harmlessly minding his own business...
...Manhattan, it was the highly touted heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Bruce Woodcock, an ex-Yorkshire railroad hand. Against tubby Tami Mauriello, No. 3 U.S. heavyweight, Woodcock showed he could dish it out, but he failed to keep after his man when he had him on the run. In the fifth round, the two were drubbing away at each other's midsections when Mauriello suddenly lifted his fire and landed on Woodcock's jaw. The Englishman, unbeaten in 25 fights, went down and tottered up a little too late. The referee had already counted...
British boxing fans hardly knew what to make of Bruce Woodcock, whose quiet manner camouflaged a paralyzing right-hand wallop. In 19 professional fights, he had won 18 of them by knockouts within six rounds. Last week, paying $2 to $42 for their seats, 38,000 jammed London's Tottenham Stadium to see Challenger Woodcock meet Champion Jack London for the British and Empire heavyweight, crown...
...Woodcock might well be the exception to a long line of glass-chinned British heavyweights, but shrewd Tom Hurit, his manager, knew that the 24-year-old slugger was still awkward afoot and short on ring savvy. Woodcock needed two years of seasoning before he could even think of stepping into a ring with a Billy Conn or a Joe Louis. Step One was to put him on a full-time fighting basis. Until now, the pride of Yorkshire had worked all day in a Doncaster railroad shop, trained nightly in a hayloft. Since there is no one left...
...TIME (radio and newsreel). A keen golfer, fish erman, huntsman, he once made a hole in one at Stoke Poges. In 1937 he broke the North American record for tuna (821 Ib.) off the Nova Scotian coast in a storm. General Manpower was written shortly afterwards, between ducks and woodcock, on a ten-month sabbatical...