Sparring With Hemingway: And Other Legends of the Fight Game (31 page)

Brookside, Quioque, New York

February 1995

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Abrams, Al,
83

Abramson, Jesse,
80
,
83
,
155

Across the River and into the Trees
(Hemingway),
26
,
27

Algren, Nelson,
11
,
187

Ali, Muhammad,
9
,
32
,
33
,
34
,
35
,
37
,
38
,
41
,
42
,
45
,
94
,
100
,
136-138
,
162
,
166
,
187-192
,
242
; compared to Jack Johnson,
45-46
,
145
; overview of career,
143-157
; in Zaire,
169-182

American Medical Association,
159-168
passim

Angott, Sammy,
119

Antuofermo, Vito,
188

Arcel, Ray,
88
,
161

Armstrong, Henry,
129
,
193

Arthur, Johnny,
106

Arum, Bob,
99

Atlas, Teddy,
246

Attell, Abe,
54

Baer, Max,
49
,
73
,
74
,
90
,
191

Baker, Bob,
105

Baldwin, James,
9

Basilio, Carmen,
95
,
101
,
102
,
103
,
122
,
126
,
127

“Battler, The” (Hemingway),
30

Beard, symbol of,
135

Beckett, Joe,
106

Beery, Wallace,
222

Bell, Tommy,
120
,
126

Bellows, George,
88

Benitez, Wilfred,
183
,
184

Benton, George,
231
,
235

Bey, David,
244

Biggs, Tyrell,
206

Bivins, Jimmy,
82

Black Muslims.
See
Islam.

Blount, George,
66

Boal, Sam,
28

Bobick, Duane,
94
,
196

Body and Soul
,
222

Bogart, Humphrey,
17
,
34

Booker, Eddie,
82

Booth, Irving,
162

Bowe, Riddick,
242
,
244
,
245

Boxing: abolition versus reform,
32-34
,
74-75
,
140-142
,
158-168
; in Africa,
169-182
; in America,
42-44
(see also specific items);
in ancient Crete,
35
; in ancient Greece,
35
; in ancient Rome,
35-36
; in Australia,
45
; and brain damage,
159-168
passim;
and celibacy,
91
,
132
; compared to chess,
140
,
159
,
188
; corruption of,
71-74
,
99
,
124-129
,
185-186
; in England,
10-11
,
36-42
,
105-111
passim
,
164
; and history,
35-37
,
139
; and Jews,
50-52
,
53-63
,
139
; Latins in,
168
; and literature,
9-11
,
187
; and need for commissioner,
159-160
,
167
; and race,
37-52
,
139
,
196-206
; salary issues,
140
,
141
,
201
; and state of mind,
89-90
; and television,
94-100
,
165

Boxing Illustrated
,
241

Braddock, Jim,
49
,
51

Brando, Marlon,
188
,
202

Bratton, Johnny,
95
,
103
,
126
,
127
,
140

Braxton, Dwight,
219

Breit, Harvey,
24
,
27

Brinkley, David,
140
,
150

Broadus, Doc,
223

Brown, Bundini. See Brown, Drew.

Brown, Drew,
152
,
169
,
171
,
180
,
191

Brown, Frankie,
111

Brown, Freddy,
187

Brown, James,
179

Brown, Joe,
95

Brown, Pat,
140
,
142

Brown, Phil,
199

Bruce, Betty,
18

Bruce, Toby,
18-31
passim

Bruno, Frank,
206

Bucceroni, Dan,
124

Burley, Charley,
82

Burns, Tommy,
44

Byrd, Al,
162

Byron, George (Lord),
10
,
36

Cain, Kid,
32

Callahan, Mushy,
21

Cannon, Jimmy,
49
,
80
,
84
,
102

Canzoneri, Tony,
84

Carbo, Frankie,
98
,
127

Carlos, John,
224

Carnera, Primo,
49
,
126
,
132-133

Carpentier, Georges,
47
,
91

Carter, Jimmy,
95

Casa Cayo Jueso,
19

Cashel Byron’s Profession
(Shaw),
48

Cayton, Bill,
221

Chamberlain, Neville,
51

Champ, The
,
222

Chaplin, Charlie,
26
,
27
,
33

Chaplin, George,
200

Charles, Ezzard,
77
,
81
,
84
,
87
,
88
,
131
,
245

Chase, Jack,
82

Choynski, Joe,
164

Chuvalo, George,
196
,
225

City Lights
,
26
,
27

Clancy, Gil,
161
,
228

Classen, Willie,
162
,
167

Clay, Cassius. See Ali, Muhammad.

Clay, Rudolph Valentino,
138
,
150

Cobb, Tex,
163
,
167

Cochrane, Red,
120

Cockell, Don,
105-111

Cohn, Roy,
139

Columbo, Allie,
82

Comiskey, Pat,
72

Conn, Billy,
34
,
77
,
84-86
,
90
,

93,
148
,
191

Conn, Jackie,
84

Conrad, Hal,
100

Cooney, Gerry,
196-206

Cooney, Tommy,
199
,
201

Cooney, Tony,
199

Cooper, Henry,
149

Corbett, Jim,
164

Corbett, Young, III,
129

Cosell, Howard,
46
,
184
,
203

Cribb, Tom,
10
,
39-41
,
107

Cuba,
24-30

Cuevas, Pipino,
184

D’Amato, Cus,
77
,
136
,
161
,
220
,
238
,
240

Davey, Chuck,
97
,
99

Davis, Eddie,
200
,
219

Davis, Howard,
99

Death in the Afternoon
(Hemingway),
30

DeJesus, Esteban,
183

Delaney, Ronnie,
103

DeMarco, Tony,
95
,
101-104
,
122

Dempsey, Jack,
47-48
,
207
,
210
,
242

Denby, Bennett,
163

Disenchanted, The
(Schulberg),
23-26

Dokes, Michael,
243

Donoghue, Roger,
73
,
188

Dorsey, Marcus,
162

Douglas, Buster,
243
,
244

Douglas, Kirk,
217

Doyle, Arthur Conan,
11
,
187

Dumas, Charley,
229

Dundee, Angelo,
143
,
149
,
152
,
180
,
187
,
191

Dundee, Gus,
72

Dundee, Johnny,
54

Duran, Roberto,
9
,
182-186

Durando, Ernie,
97

Durelle, Yvon,
95
,
96

Dutch, Sam,
131

Duva, Lou,
231

Eastman, Max,
21

Egan, Pierce,
114

Elijah Muhammad,
153
,
156

Ellis, Jimmy,
97
,
189

Esquire
,
241

Ever Hammer,
54

Farr, Tommy,
106

Faulkner, William,
77-78

Fields, Jackie,
62
,
73
,
129

Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories, The
(Hemingway),
19

“Fifty Grand” (Hemingway),
30

Figg, James,
167

Film,
17
,
24
,
71-75
,
80
;
Body and Soul
,
222
;
The Champ
,
222
;
City Lights
,
26
,
27
;
The Great White Hope
,
44
,
209
;
The Harder They Fall
,
71-74
,
222
;
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
,
134
;
Rocky
,
194
,
195
,
209
;
On the Waterfront
,
27
,
188
,
202-203

Finnegan, Mickey,
55

Firpo, Luis,
207
,
210

Fitzgerald, F. Scott,
24
,
238
,
240
;
The Last Tycoon
,
25
;
Tender Is the Night
,
25
;
This Side of Paradise
,
25

Flaherty, Vince,
83

Flanagan brothers,
97

Fleischer, Nat,
83

Foreman, George,
222-231
,
232-237
,
246
; religion of,
228-231
; in Zaire,
169-182

Foster, Bob,
215

Fox, Billy,
124
,
127
,
140
,
142

Franklin, Aretha,
179

Frazier, Joe,
34
,
37
,
41
,
221
,
225

Fullmer, Gene,
95
,
121

Futch, Eddie,
220

Galento, Tony,
132

Gavilan, Kid,
95
,
98
,
101
,
102
,
124-129
,
185

Givens, Robin,
221

Godfrey, George,
73

Goebbels, Joseph,
50-51
,
85

Goering, Hermann,
52

Goldman, Charley,
113

Goldstein, Abe,
54

Goldstein, Ruby,
62

Gonsalves, Johnny,
119

Gonzalez, Henry B.,
168

Gould, Joe,
49
,
50

Graham, Billy,
84
,
95
,
102
,
126

Graham, Frank,
81
,
83

Great White Hope,
37-52
passim
,
196-206

Great White Hope, The
,
44
,
209

Greb, Harry,
20
,
74
,
132

Green Hills of Africa
(Hemingway),
30

Griffith, Emile,
97
,
140

Gully, John,
10

Gunther, John,
174

Hagler, Marvin,
159
,
188
,
207-212

Halliday, Manley,
24

Hamill, Pete,
11

Harder They Fall, The
(Schulberg),
17
,
33
,
71-74
,
141
,
185
,
204
; film versus book,
71-74

Hazlitt, William,
10-11
,
187

Hearns, Thomas,
159
,
161
,
184
,
193-195
,
207-212

Heavyweight championships,
76-93
,
188-192
,
241-245

Hecht, Ben,
9

Hemingway, Ernest,
9
,
17-31
,
135
,
187
;
Across the River and into the Trees
,
26
,
27
; “The Battler,”
30
;
Death in the Afternoon
,
30
;
The Fifth Column and the First Forty- nine Stories
,
19
; “Fifty Grand,”
30
;
Green Hills of Africa
,
30
;
A Moveable Feast
,
26
;
The Old Man and the Sea
,
27
; “The Undefeated,”
30