The Man They Couldn't Gag |
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... champion of the world , a savage beating . Webb lasted just twenty - nine seconds against Papp who went on to win the gold medal without ever really being extended . This left the middleweight division clear for a seventeen - year - old ...
... champion of the world , a savage beating . Webb lasted just twenty - nine seconds against Papp who went on to win the gold medal without ever really being extended . This left the middleweight division clear for a seventeen - year - old ...
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... champion . One of the ever - developing chapters of Wimbledon was added when Althea Gibson became the first black woman champion . She had not lost a set in the championships and conceded only thirty games in six matches . Then I was ...
... champion . One of the ever - developing chapters of Wimbledon was added when Althea Gibson became the first black woman champion . She had not lost a set in the championships and conceded only thirty games in six matches . Then I was ...
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... champion Patterson prepared quietly , and often behind locked doors , in a Roman Catholic centre for underprivileged children , set in bland farming country . This was one of those incongruous places which champions sometimes choose for ...
... champion Patterson prepared quietly , and often behind locked doors , in a Roman Catholic centre for underprivileged children , set in bland farming country . This was one of those incongruous places which champions sometimes choose for ...
Contents
Sometimes it was the Street of Misadventure until 1935 | 17 |
Mirror Mirror on the Ball 19357 | 31 |
The End of the Beginning 193840 | 52 |
Copyright | |
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