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James J. ("Big Jim") Jeffries, 75, heavyweight champ who was knocked flat in 1910 by Jack Johnson, the first Negro champ, observed that the fight game has become so sissified that "I'd rather see a wrestling match . . . Lots of these kids fighting now would make damn good ping-pong players...
...roads may return the cars to Equitable, or rent them for another ten years at 20? a day. "We think," said Carry, "that the railroads will see that it will cost less to rent modern cars than to repair and maintain aged ones." At week's end Champ Carry, who calls most rail presidents by their first names, was ready to sign up his first major railroad under Equitable's plan...
...Champ Carry, the hefty (6 ft., 220 Ibs.) president of Pullman, Inc. took an agonized look at his freight-car orders one day last fall. The big postwar backlog of freight-car orders had nearly disappeared, and Pullman's three freight-car plants had all but shut down. Yet Carry knew that U.S. railroads needed freight cars; more than half of the 1,762,239 cars in the U.S. are rattling antiques more than 20 years old. There was plenty of business if Carry could find" someone with the money to finance car buying for the cash-short railroads...
...strangely nervous as he stepped up to the edge of the Ohio State pool at Columbus one night last week. Only the week before, he had licked La Salle's stocky Olympic champion, Joe Verdeur. But this time 20-year-old Bob Brawner was up against the champ again in the national collegiate championships, where Joe Verdeur had taken the title two years running...
...heel. With no subtlety at all, the movie uses the original's French and Italian backgrounds to give a thin illusion of novelty to a spavined horse-racing plot. There are also a few twists that owe less to Hemingway than to successful prizefight films from The Champ to Champion...