Word: middleweights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Middleweight (160) Mickey Walker...
Died. Theodore ("Tiger") Flowers, Negro, 32, onetime (Feb.-Dec., 1926) middleweight boxing champion of the world; in Manhattan; unexpectedly, after an operation for the removal of a growth over his left eye. Rightly known as "the Georgia Deacon," he uttered as his last words: "If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take...
...Lord '28, end on the University football team, and heavyweight champion in the University bouts last year, will be back in the ring this winter. John Parkinson Jr. '29, middleweight contender for the championship in the bouts last March, will also be boxing this year. F. R. Sullivan 1G.B., the coxswain of the University crew which defeated Yale last spring, did well in the bantam weight class last season, and is expected to offer strong competition for the title in the final bouts...
They laid Mr. Welsh out at an undertaking parlor in his U. S. Army uniform, captain's rank. Actors, ball players, politicians and 1,500 miscellaneous came to see him. Soldiers escorted him to a crematorium. Among his pallbearers were Benny Leonard, Johnny Dundee, Middleweight Champion Mickey Walker, Light Heavyweight Champion Mike McTigue. Jack Dempsey, against whom Mrs. Welsh had railed, saying Mr. Welsh had once defended him against "slacker" charges only to be ignored last week when he asked Mr. Dempsey to pay a sickroom call, telegraphed flowers from California...
...excitement lapsed a personage strode aboard. He received a round of cheers from 3,000 louts, touts and riffraff, who had gathered to see middleweight boxer Mickey Walker aboard the Berengaria, and supposed that the personage,Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York State, had come on the same errand. He had not. Kindly, he had come to say goodbye to James Ramsay MacDonald. They had never met, but Mr. MacDonald had expressed keen regret that illness made it impossible for him to shake the Governor's hand at Albany. Instead they met and immediately parted aboard the Berengaria...