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CERDAN PAYS FORFEIT Marcel Cerdan was lilb. menvelght for his fight with Dick Tarpin last night and It was decided

... CERDAN PAYS FORFEIT Marcel Cerdan was lilb. menvelght for his fight with Dick Tarpin last night and It was decided that he should Pay £3OO forfeit as provided In the contract. The stipulated weight was list. Sib. Turpin's weight was not ghee at the welgh-in ...

Published: Wednesday 30 March 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 51 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Cerdan Theatre

... Cerdan Theatre A new theatre at Lake Evans (New York) was dedicated last night to the memory of Marcel Cerdan, the former middleweight boxing champion, who was killed last year in a plane erash, ...

Published: Monday 29 May 1950
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 34 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

CYRILLE DELANNOIT

... CYRILLE DELANNOIT (CHAMPION OF BELGIUM) Ex-European Champion who has defeated World Champion Marcel Cerdan JOHNNY WILLIAMS (RUGBY) Britain's future Heavyweight Champion V ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1949
Newspaper: Sports Argus
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 22 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

WIN AFTER THREE YEARS

... Wind 11. 2.30 Rotund. SUBSTITUTE FOR MARCEL CERDAN The French Boxing Association has asked the New York Boxing Commission to allow the French middleweight Laurent Dauthuille to substitute for the late Marcel Cerdan in the fight against Jake Lamotta for ...

Published: Tuesday 01 November 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 220 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

In brief

... holder, and Jock McAvoy (Rochdale). The latest offer is a fourfigure purse for the match London. McAvoy has match against Marcel Cerdan, former European welter-weight champion, in Paris on 29 September. Billy McCracken, 15 times capped for Ireland, inventor ...

Published: Friday 14 September 1945
Newspaper: Evening Despatch
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 78 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

CERDAN MAY LOSE MANAGER

... CERDAN MAY LOSE MANAGER Marcel Cerdan. French holder of the world middleweight championship, and his manager Lucien Roupp. may part. Roupp said last night : is a great pity that after 12 year, of hard work together we should part just after he has won ...

Published: Thursday 06 January 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 95 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

NO COMPLAINTS

... complaints at the' decision. It was a very good fight he said afterwards. But in view of his fight with the world champion. Marcel Cerdan. in London on 211 March, Turpin's performance was obviously disappointing. The best that can be said is that he suffered ...

Published: Monday 14 March 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 105 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

AIR LINER HITS MOUNTAIN

... passengers are being notified of the presumed death of all on board. In the plane, flying from Paris to New York, were boxer Marcel Cerdan, former world middleweight champion, and France's world-famous violinist, Ginette Neveu. There were no Britons on board ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 118 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THE BOXER

... THE BOXER Marcel Cerdan was on his way to New York to meet the reigning world middleweight champion, America's Jake La Motta, to whom he lost the title earlier this year. He recently announced that he would soon retire. If original plans had bee• followed ...

Published: Saturday 29 October 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 124 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PIAF

... childhood, in the atmosphere of shoddy circuses, she found little aatisfaction after winning success. She was In love with Marcel Cerdan. the world boxing cham- pion who was killed In an air crash In the Azores in 190. she married Jacques Pills the singer-composer ...

Published: Saturday 12 October 1963
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Post
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 151 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

WORLD TITLE BOUT PLANS

... Middlesbrough welterweight. Craster has never fought bad fight at Earls Court and he now matched over eight rounds with Marcel Cerdan, who holds the welter-weight championship of France, and has knocked out Gustave ( Tiger Humery. The full programme for ...

Published: Thursday 05 January 1939
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 120 | Page: 11 | Tags: none

TURPIN

... Nottingham lightweight. who, like l'harron, is a Pout hpaw. The Frenchman is a variable character. He went the distance with Marcel Cerdan before losing his national championship and he has beaten the present French title-holder. Jean Stock. in two hard fights ...

Published: Monday 30 May 1949
Newspaper: Birmingham Daily Gazette
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: | Words: 152 | Page: 6 | Tags: none