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...self-taught sculptor, Milles left his home in Sweden at 22 to become a gym instructor in Chile, but he got no farther than Paris. There he de cided to make sculpture his career...
When the short, cocky Puerto Rican teen-ager first wandered into the gym of Manhattan's Joan of Arc Junior High School on West 93rd Street, no one bothered to ask him why he had come. The evening boxing class-an effort to keep potential delinquents off the streets-was in full swing. Physical Education Teacher James O'Tarrell. 28, simply assumed that the boy was just another pupil. Then the time came for the class to roll up the mats and leave. Instead of helping with the work, the boy stood on the sidelines and jeered...
...fight. He frittered away the fortune that he had won with his fists. In 1917 a Milwaukee court declared him legally incompetent. For a few years Wolgast had his freedom as a ward of Los Angeles Fight Promoter Jack Doyle. He had the run of Doyle's gym, worked out regularly, and still thought of himself as the champ. Such admiring oldtimers as Jim Jeffries, Tom Sharkey and Tommy Ryan dropped by to assure him that he still had his knockout punch. He demanded all the prerogatives of a titleholder, and was likely to swing on the first...
Practice on the gym floor allows the freshmen to get an early jump on the actual season, but limited court space and faster play caused by the bounce off the boards makes it difficult for clay court players to sharpen their game...
...Heckscher, the Crimson squash team's number one man in the past season, defeated Donald Scott 2L in the finals of the University Squash Tournament yesterday in Hemenway Gym...