The difference between the limit for welterweights (147 Ib.) and the limit for lightweights (135 Ib.) is not large but it is important. Lightweight champions had fought for the welterweight championship three times in the history of U. S. pugilism, when in New York last week a crowd of 65,000 paid $225,000 to see a fourth meeting of the same sort. In Madison
Square Garden's outdoor bowl Welterweight Jimmy McLarnin entered the ring first, laced up his gloves. Small Barney Ross, who won the lightweight championship from Tony Canzoneri last year, ducked into...
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