Sport: Records: Nov. 12, 1928

Huge Salvatore Ruggirello, 6 ft. 4 in. tall, 215 pounds in weight, entered a prize-ring in Paris and was knocked out by Primo Camera, 6 ft. 11 in. tall, 266 pounds in weight.

In Chicago, 14 teams in a six-day bicycle race rode 29 miles in the first hour. In Wilkes-Barre, Pa., one Tony Chico pedalled a bicycle without stopping for 27 hrs., 25½ min.

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