Sport: Blow-by-Blow

Eddie Eagan won the U. S. amateur heavyweight championship in 1918, the Olympic light heavyweight championship in 1920. He went to four colleges* Denver University, Yale, Harvard (where he studied law) and Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Now, at 33, Eddie Eagan feels that he has known and fought enough people to write his autobiography.— Eddie Eagan was born in Denver in 1898. A cowboy named Abe Tobin taught him how to box when he was 14. In high school Eddie Eagan was interested in history. He observed that most U. S....

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