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...these up-&-coming pugilists are at least two years away from heavyweight championship calibre. In the meantime, in order to give customers their money's worth, one sportswriter suggested that Black-jack Joe take on all current contenders-Lou Nova, Max Baer, Bob Pastor, Tony Galento-in one evening, one at a time, like a barfly's dream...
...Beer-drinking, 230-lb. Tony Galento, No. 1 contender for the world's heavyweight boxing title: an unscheduled fight against pneumonia, contracted while a teetotaler at training camp five days before a scheduled fight with Light Heavyweight Champion John Henry Lewis; after three blood transfusions and five days under an oxygen tent; at Orange, N. J. When told that his blood transfusions were injections of salt, impatient Tony, tired of being flat on his back with "this ammonia," growled: "Why can't Mary [his wife] put the salt in the soup instead of punching me full of holes...
...Tony Galento, clownish saloon-keeping heavyweight of Orange, N. J., was training for his Philadelphia fight with Negro John Henry Lewis five days before the bout. After flattening three sparring partners at Madame Bey's Summit, N. J., training camp, Fisticuffer Galento drove sweatily back to his bar, served a few beers, drank a few himself and was soon running a 104° temperature between chills. At Orange Memorial Hospital, where his case was diagnosed as lobar pneumonia, he tried to fight his way out of the oxygen tent, relaxed at the request of his manager and declared...
There were no volunteers. But Manhattan sportswriters suggested saloon-keeping, beer-drinking Tony Galento, first-rate heavyweight who is just half Gargantua's size (230 lb.), as a fair match for the simian. At his saloon in Orange, N. J., Tony Galento "deeply regretted" the suggestion. Meanwhile, in the merry ribbing that followed, no one had taken the trouble to look in his Encyclopaedia Britannica, where he would have discovered that a gorilla has 13 pairs of ribs, one pair more than...
After the fight, 28-year-old Tony Galento announced his two ambitions: to knock out Joe Louis and to endorse a brand of beer. "Most of these here guys that endorse beer never drank a bottle." he swaggered. "Me, I train on it. The public would have some confidence in what I say about beer...