One character with this profession allegedly married his sister and tried to fight a man who refused to lend him a knife before getting knocked out with a blackjack blow from a character named Bugs.
One character with this profession allegedly married his sister and tried to fight a man who refused to lend him a knife before getting knocked out with a blackjack blow from a character named Bugs. Besides the ear-bereft Ad Francis, another man who participated in this activity at Princeton abandons Frances Clyne and absconds with his lover to Spain, where he brutally beats (*) Pedro Romero. Jerry Doyle narrates another story about them, which ends with Jack Brennan winning a bet after Brennan hits Jimmy Walcott below the belt; that story is "The Battler." For 10 points, name this profession practiced by Robert Cohn in The Sun Also Rises and the central character in "Fifty Grand," a gloved sport taught to Ezra Pound by Ernest Hemingway.
One character with this profession allegedly married his sister and tried to fight a man who refused to lend him a knife before getting knocked out with a blackjack blow from a character named Bugs.
boxing [or boxers, people who box, etc.]