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  • I found the survivor's organization, American Defenders of the Bataan and Corregidor and another one called Battling Bastards of Bataan.

    CNN Transcript Dec 24, 2002 2002

  • I was in my element, as I had joined the Toronto West End Y.M.C.A. while I was apprenticing and I boxed the Lightweight Champions of the World such as Battling Nelson, Al Woolgast, Joe Gas and other Americans at Church Street Labor Temple when they were wanting a workout before appearing on the stage at the Burlesque Star & Gaiety Theatre.

    The First World War Memoirs of Sampson J. Goodfellow, Part 2: Training (and Boxing) ewillett 2008

  • Doelger, a Bavarian immigrant, made at least two towering family contributions to New York - he and his sons made one of the first, true New York lager beers; also his sister, Matilda, married "Battling" Jack West and gave birth to Mae West in 1893.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Mae West NYC 2004

  • Doelger, a Bavarian immigrant, made at least two towering family contributions to New York - he and his sons made one of the first, true New York lager beers; also his sister, Matilda, married "Battling" Jack West and gave birth to Mae West in 1893.

    Mae West's German ancestry leads to P.J. Clarke's Mae West NYC 2004

  • Doelger, a Bavarian immigrant, made at least two towering family contributions to New York - he and his sons made one of the first, true New York lager beers; also his sister, Matilda, married "Battling" Jack West and gave birth to Mae West in 1893.

    Mae West's German ancestry leads to P.J. Clarke's Mae West NYC 2004

  • Doelger, a Bavarian immigrant, made at least two towering family contributions to New York - he and his sons made one of the first, true New York lager beers; also his sister, Matilda, married "Battling" Jack West and gave birth to Mae West in 1893.

    Archive 2004-09-01 Mae West NYC 2004

  • There were men like Wills, who Langford fought at least seventeen times, Sam McVey, another great black heavyweight contender Sam fought fifteen times, Joe Jeanette fourteen times, "Battling" Jim Johnson twelve times.

    Doghouse Boxing News 2009

  • There were men like Wills, who Langford fought at least seventeen times, Sam McVey, another great black heavyweight contender Sam fought fifteen times, Joe Jeanette fourteen times, "Battling" Jim Johnson twelve times.

    Doghouse Boxing News 2009

  • There were men like Wills, who Langford fought at least seventeen times, Sam McVey, another great black heavyweight contender Sam fought fifteen times, Joe Jeanette fourteen times, "Battling" Jim Johnson twelve times.

    Doghouse Boxing News 2009

  • If you happen to watch that movie, it's called Battling Goliath, if you get a little confused, Robert Redford has a little more hair than I do. "

    chron.com Chronicle 2009

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