Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William ("Noblest Roman of them all") Muldoon, onetime world's champion wrestler, longtime crusader for clean boxing, originator of state boxing inspection, was given a testimonial dinner in Manhattan in honor of his approaching 85th birthday. To it went folk like Elihu Root, Walter Percy Chrysler, Oliver Harriman, Felix Warburg. Toastmaster John McEntee Bowman presented Muldoon a portrait, a bronze bust. Thomas brought back a silver-banded stick which Boxing Champion Heenan had given Muldoon 50 years ago. Muldoon lost the stick in 1880. Darraugh said he had received it in 1890 from the late Sportsman Thomas Gould...
...large gathering is expected, as Coach Gallagher has gained considerable reputation, not only as a wrestler, but also in track and football. Although the team will be handicapped by the loss of Captain Joseph Lifrak '29, the return of J. F. Solano '30, former Freshman star, after a year's absence should be an important factor in the progress of the team. Another loss which will be severely felt is that of Crispin Cooke '32, lightweight star of last year's Freshman team. He will be prevented from wrestling this season because of an injury...
...only 6 ft. 6½ in. high. Fighter Camera is 6 ft. 11½ in. high and weighs 280 lb. with nothing on. His shoes are size 21½ and weigh 7½ lb. apiece. His collars are size 24, his hats 12¾. He used to be a wrestler but switched to boxing because he found no one willing to wrestle with him. Once at a country fair, annoyed by a strongman, he picked the strongman up, spanked him, was hailed as a fighter. He has fought a year and one-half, won 14, lost none...
Zbyszko v. Hearst. Stanislaus Zbyszko, ponderous wrestler, filed a $250,000 suit against Publisher William Randolph Hearst's New York American. Reason: The American had printed a gorilla's picture side-by-side with that of Wrestler Zbyszko; had commented: "Stanislaus Zbyszko ... is not fundamentally different from the gorilla in physique." Wrestler Zbyszko complained that since the event he had been "shunned and avoided by his wife, relatives, neighbors, associates and other persons...
Died. James Pilkington, 78, of Manhattan, oldtime policeman, Civil War veteran, contractor, boxer, wrestler, trapshooter, sculler, oarsman, bowler, trackman; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. In 1879, in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Athlete Pilkington won the national amateur championship in both boxing and wrestling on the same night...