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...associate, Primo Carnera, 269-lb. Venetian prizefighter, was last week inconvenienced more sadly than ever before. Scheduled for Oct. 1 was his fight against loud, 203-lb. Jack Sharkey of Boston, still the foremost U. S. contender for the heavyweight championship despite poor fights against Champion Max Schmeling and Middleweight Mickey Walker. Eight days before the fight, Sharkey inspected his left hand, discovered that his third and little fingers were slightly swollen at the knuckle. Convinced that such a hand was no fit instrument with which to assail the long lantern jaw of Primo Carnera, Sharkey called in four doctors...
...with a new one-crafty Jack Kearn, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, present manager of Mickey Walker. Manager Kearns planned a fight between Benny Leonard and Dave Shade in Chicago this month, which the Illinois Boxing Commission promptly refused to sanction; a subsequent campaign for the lightweight, welterweight and middleweight championships. Promoter Jimmy Johnston remembered he had a seven-year-old contract for a fight between Leonard and Walker, hoped to utilize...
...heavyweight, was still considered a good fighter despite sloppy performances against Risko, Christner, Stribling, Scott and World's Heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling. The New York State Boxing Commission considered him good enough to call heavyweight champion of the U. S. Mickey Walker was welterweight, then middleweight champion before his manager Jack Kearns, onetime manager of Jack Dempsey, got him selected as an opponent for Sharkey. Kearns wanted to bet any part of $100,000 that Walker would win; but the odds, when the fighters went into the ring, were 3 to i, with Sharkey the favorite. Sharkey weighed...
Sweeping the middleweight bouts, the University wrestling team defeated Yale at New Haven Saturday by the score of 17 to 11 for its second annual victory...
William C. ("Coke") Mason was a one-time factory hand from Ohio, whom his boyhood pal George Regan coached, bullied, kidded into a middleweight boxer of championship calibre. Soon after Coke left the factory, his wife, a small-time gold digger with big-time aspirations, left him flat. Coke brooded over her defection, but Regan thought it was a good thing. Coke's wicked left hook, his ability to take punishment, began to win him a more than local reputation. No ring-general, Coke took his orders for each fight from Regan. When he knocked out Prince Pearl, shifty...