Word: middleweights
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Schafrann 3L, whom Summer School students will remember as the director of wrestling at conditioning classes will take over the Varsity wrestling team this fall William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics, announced yesterday. Schafrann, a former University of Michigan middleweight star, is to take the place of Chief Boston, who was called into the Army as a lieutenant this year...
Young Conn, a handsome Irish toughie, brought up in Pittsburgh's brawl-proud East Liberty section, had been fighting since he was 14. He got his upper schooling in the lightweight, welterweight, middleweight and light-heavyweight classes, had only recently given up his light-heavy title to take a jab at Joe Louis' diadem. The wise money said The Kid should have waited another year. He was fast and smart but he was 25 Ib. lighter than Louis, had no steam behind his punches...
...Marquess of Clydesdale, the Duke was Scotland's amateur middleweight boxing champion, an excellent skier, one of the first men to fly over Everest. His debut in politics was less successful. While standing for Parliament he discouraged his Conservative backers by giving the same speech at all election meetings, getting booed when he tried another...
Last week at the Diamond Horseshoe, Mae Murray again began dancing the Merry Widow waltz, with Georges Fontana of the sleek '20s dancing team of Moss & Fontana. The featherweight toast of the 1908 Follies has long since moved into the middleweight division, but as she swooped, swirled and was flung through the air the house came down, and Billy Rose knew that he had a waltzing hit and the nostalgic smash of his career...
...result, the State took control of Byberry away from the city, put it under the charge of Dr. Herbert Codey Woolley, a well-known psychiatrist. Everyone felt better about Byberry. But last week Philadelphia papers headlined Byberry again as a House of Horrors. Two attendants, one a middleweight boxer, the other an ex-sailor, were accused of beating patients to death. The boxer confessed to slugging two; the ex-sailor, one. Another attendant was held as an accessory. Neither Dr. Woolley nor any of the staff members were held, although they may be called up for questioning, for they...