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...Year was certainly Golfer Gene Sarazen who by winning both the British and U. S. open championships came as close as any professional can to Robert Tyre Jones Jr.'s record in 1930. Yet Sarazen flubbed the Professional Championship, did not even qualify. Josef Paul Cuckoschay (Jack Sharkey) of Boston retrieved the world's heavyweight boxing championship for the U. S. from Germany's Maximilian Adolf Otto Siegfried Schmeling in a bout that satisfied few patrons. All-around athlete of 1932 was Mildred ("Babe") Didrikson of Dallas who scored more individual points in the Olympics than...
...summary: HARVARD TUFTS Briesen, Nichols, g. g., Kavanaugh F. Wemple, r.f.b. r.f.b., Whittaker Grossman, l.f.b. l.f.b., Smith Thacher, Morrill, r.h.b., r.h.b., Page Ware, c.h.b. c.h.b., Urban Robbins, l.h.b. l.h.b., Fairfield, Davis, Porter Baxter, r.o. r.o., Sharkey Seeman, Clarke, Thacher, r.t. r.t., Klopp, Morse Kandoian, c.f. c.f., Dummett Fraley, l.t. l.t., Gauger Russell, Bloomberg, l.e. l.e., Wilcox...
...toughest little bulldog in the ring is 174½-lb. Mickey Walker who started his career as a welterweight, won welterweight and middleweight championships, then became a heavyweight and fought Heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey to a draw a year ago. Matched against Walker for the reward of a return fight against Sharkey last week was amiable, capable Max Siegfried Otto Schmeling, heavyweight champion until Sharkey won the title on a disputed decision last summer. As Advertised
...Baer, cocky California heavyweight, vaguely rated third in U. S. prize fighting (after Sharkey and Schmeling): a technical knockout in the seventh round of a clowning fight against Gerald Ambrose ("Tuffy") Griffith, Chicago has-been; in Chicago...
...down the Stadium turf. A small college team went home wondering what it was all about. Buffalo could undoubtedly do very well against a team of its own class, but in this case it failed miserably. The competition was as sports-man-like as a match between Jack Sharkey and any average fly weight fighter--and a little less interesting for players and spectators. Buffalo can like it wounds with the knowledge that the demands of the Buffalo Harvard Club have been satisfied...