Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down to nap on a rubbing table while his trainer explained that Flynn was 22 years old and married, that he earned $60 a month as a janitor, that he had no intention of becoming a professional. Presently Flynn swung himself off the rubbing bench, walked out to the ring and retained his title in a three-round fight against a rough little San Francisco Italian named Andrew Bozzano...
...rule: John Kilcullen, a 195-lb. Yale sophomore whom experts had picked to win not only the A. A. U. championship but the world's championship at Los Angeles next summer; and Fred Feary, a 20-year-old high-school boy of Stockton, Calif., who bounces about the ring as lightly as though his 215-lb. body were inflated with air. Feary and Kilcullen fought each other in the third round of the tournament. In the second round Kilcullen knocked Feary down once and Feary knocked Kilcullen down twice. In the third round, Feary scored his 33rd knockout...
...defined the efficiency of a prize-fighter by his ability in the ring, Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky") would not rate better than tenth among U. S. heavyweights. Last year he had 15 fights, won only eight. If you defined efficiency as a fighter's ability to earn money at his trade, Kingfish Levinsky might rank as best fighter in the U. S. In the last 15 months, gates at his fights with Slattery, Griffiths, Camera, Paulino and an exhibition bout against Jack Dempsey have amounted to $254,124.68. He may this year earn more than Schmeling, Sharkey, Dempsey, Camera...
...three days Prosecutor Morris collected evidence which, he said, "indicates that at least 50 women and girls have died here in the last year from illegal operations. Oklahoma City is the centre of a thriving, criminal operation industry." He said a "ring of at least a dozen doctors" had been performing abortions, that four known private nursing homes were operated to care for the patients. A Mrs. Leona Smith told Prosecutor Morris she had done an average of five abortions a month during the past three years. She used a formula which cost her $500. "I charged $75 a case...
...tops down the Commodore stairway, injuring several passersby. The Fakir exhibitions stopped in 1917, but the Ball went on. In 1923 New York hotelkeepers banded together and announced that so far as they were concerned the Fakirs might hold their Ball in an armory, ball park, stadium or prize ring, but nor in any hotel in New York. After a few years of raucous reunions in downtown Webster Hall, the whole thing died...