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...dressing room after beating Boston last week, however, it was not Apps or Bentley who got acclaim from fellow Maple Leafs as they loosened skates and climbed out of their pads. "There's our champ," said Boss Smythe, pointing at mild Harry Watson, "enter him in the heavyweight class." Boss Smythe knows that pandemonium on skates is good for business. Four nights later, Toronto dumped Boston from the playoffs, got ready to buck Detroit in the finals...
Feeling young again, Gus guessed that after one more light-heavyweight fight he would go gunning for the heavyweight crown. After all, Bob Fitzsimmons was a Methuselah of 35 when he became heavyweight champ back...
Referee Tommy Lawson halted the Phil Eisenberg-Charley Bird bout in 1.7 of the first round, declaring Eisenberg, Freshman fullback last fall, now 175-pound champ by a T.K.O...
Dale Chadwick, battling in the heavy-weight class, overcame House champ M. S. Rustein in semi-finals and went on to carry off all-University honors by defeating Brent Keyser in the finals...
...down Rio's Avenida Rio Branco with Joao de Barro last week was like taking a stroll with Joe Louis in Harlem. Friends embraced him, girls waved, shoeshine boys grinned admiringly. Joāo, whose real name is Carlos Braga, is no boxer, but last week he was champ. In a land where everyone loves song, Joāo had written (with Collaborator Alberto Ribeiro) the song everybody was singing...