Sport: The Dancing Master

Carl ("Bobo") Olson is a lean (5 ft. 10½ in.) and hungry-looking; middleweight (160 Ibs.), who learned to defend himself in the tough Kaliki section of Honolulu, where street-fighting is a normal pastime. Paddy Young is a stocky (5 ft. 8 in.) middleweight, who learned his punching as a stevedore on Manhattan's rough & tumble waterfront.

At Madison Square Garden last week, the ex-street fighter and the ex-stevedore, both now 24 and duly coached and polished in Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a...

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