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First of all a phenomenal succession of injuries has caused the removal of number one men in several middleweight positions. Sickness accounts for others being out of training at the crucial meets. But generally a lack of confidence prevails, due to insidious bad luck...
Engaged. Bob Gregory, 25, claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling title, to "Princess Baba," Valeria Brooke, 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Rajah of Sarawak;* in London. The betrothal, which followed a whirling courtship, was opposed by Princess Baba's parents, but defended by her on the grounds that her sister. Princess Pearl, had previously married Jazz-Bandleader Harry...
Champion Armstrong is by no means Hollywood's sole venture into sporting promotion. Middleweight Champion Freddy Steele is partly owned by Bing Crosby, who also supports a girls' baseball team called the Croonerettes, promotes a $3,000 golf tournament, and is the principal stockholder in the Del Mar racetrack near San Diego. Producers Hal Roach and Jack Warner are No. 1 and No. 2 stockholders in the Santa Anita racetrack. Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Mrs. Zeppo Marx and many another own horses. Clark Gable used to own one named Beverly Hills. Victor McLaglen...
Died. Dave Miller, 36, manager of Middleweight Champion Freddie Steele; after a mastoid operation; in Tacoma, Wash...
...broad beaches near Culver City and Beverly Hills a few months ago, they were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and girls. MacDonald told his new friends that he was the New England middleweight amateur boxing champion.- Morgan said he was a boxer too. A quick success with the girls, the pair persuaded a shy young appointee to Annapolis (whose name was withheld by the police last week) to let them use his family's Culver City house for a "party." Since...