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After determining a crteria for inductees, Bill Dick Parker, Joel Dorsey, and Neal Henigan were chosen as the 1963 indutees, In the preceding years, the following former athletes from Hallsville have been inducted into the Hall of Fame: 1964, Ross " Larry " Parker, Perry " Peck " Bunt, Barney Oliver ; 1965, Clayton " Shag " Coon, Hulon Blalock, Edd Young ; 1966, Clyde Kinsy, Murray Know, Brad Horner ; 1967, Dick Hays ; 1968, James Greer ; 1969, Votto Gaddis, Ed Ferges, Corky Ford ; 1970.
After the fourth bout with Arizmendi was a bout with Fritzie Zivic's brother, Eddie Zivic, resulting in another Armstrong knockout win and after one more bout, Armstrong, the 126 pound division world champion, challenged a fellow member of the three division champions ' club, Barney Ross, then World Welterweight Champion, for the title.
Barney Ross ( born Dov-Ber " Beryl " David Rosofsky ; December 23, 1909 – January 17, 1967 ) was an American professional boxer.
Plagued by his father's death and feeling an obligation not to sully his name, Dov Rosofsky took the new name " Barney Ross.
* Interview with Ross biography Barney Ross author Douglas Century on Eight Forty-Eight radio program, WBEZ public radio ; Chicago, Illinois ; March 9, 2006.
Canzoneri, Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong were the only boxing champions in history to be allowed to hold two or more world titles simultaneously ( Sugar Ray Leonard became both the vacant World Super Middleweight and the World Light Heavyweight Champion in one night in 1988, but he had to choose only one to keep and he chose to keep the Super Middleweight title ).
Other boxers who fought with Stars of David embroidered on their trunks to reflect their ethno-religious pride included world lightweight champion Benny " the Ghetto Wizard " Leonard ( who said he felt as though he was fighting for all Jews ), world light heavyweight boxing champion Battling Levinsky, Barney Ross ( world champion as a lightweight, as a junior welterweight, and as a welterweight ), world flyweight boxing champion Victor " Young " Peres (" Young "), and more recently World Boxing Association super welterweight champion Yuri Foreman and light middleweight Boyd Melson.
* Barney Ross ( 1909-1967 ), American Hall of Fame world champion lightweight and junior welterweight boxer born Dov-Ber Rasofsky
* In the Cards — Adapted by Ross Thomas for Tales of the Unexpected, July 14, 1985 ( Season 8, Episode 2 ), starring Susan Strasberg, Max Gail ( famous for his role as Detective Stan " Wojo " Wojciehowicz on the television sitcom Barney Miller ), Elaine Giftos, and Kenneth Tigar.
Three world champions won world titles in three different divisions, a feat no single fighter had accomplished since 1903 ; Tony Canzoneri, Barney Ross and Henry Armstrong cemented their place in boxing history by achieving this feat ; Armstrong was the first, and will be the only, world champion to reign in three divisions at the same time: modern boxing rules ban boxers from reigning in more than one division at a time.
* September 17-Jimmy McLarnin recovers the world Welterweight title, with a fifteen round decision over Barney Ross, in New York.
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Barney died on August 12, 1997, and in his honor that night's game at Camden Yards against the Oakland Athletics was held without a public – address announcer.
Image: Georgebushjuly2007campdavid. jpg | President George W. Bush and Chief of Staff Josh Bolten walk together with the President's dog Barney at Camp David, July 21, 2007.
The Village hosted the first racially integrated night club in the United States, when the nightclub Café Society was opened in 1938 at 1 Sheridan Square by Barney Josephson.
Pitt is referred to in the Simpsons episode " Homer at the Bat ", where Barney and guest star Wade Boggs get into a bar fight debating the greatest British prime minister of all time.
On 1 August 2006, CNN reported that Barney, a Doberman Pinscher employed as a security dog at Wookey Hole, had destroyed parts of a valuable collection of teddy bears, including one which had belonged to Elvis Presley, which was estimated to be worth $ 75, 000.
A security guard at the museum, Greg West, said he spent several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling the dog to the ground.
In 1976 Amoco ( under the " Standard " name ) sponsored the Barney Oldfield Speedway attraction at Marriott's Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois.
In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 3 of the 1964 World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Mickey Mantle blasted Barney Schultz's first pitch into the right field stands at Yankee Stadium, which won the game for the Yankees 2 – 1.
His leadership is challenged by Barney Gumble, who throws a Molotov Cocktail at him, which Moe successfully throws back.
After being forced to spend a sober night at Moe's Tavern serving as designated driver, Barney left town in Homer Simpson's car to, among other things, give a guest lecture at Villanova ( although, by his own admission, the guest lecture could just have likely occurred on a street corner ).
In " Days of Wine and D ' oh ' ses ", after watching a video of his drunken antics at his birthday party, Barney resolves to get sober.
After a long discussion about how the episode should end, the writers decided that they did not want Barney to return to being drunk at the end of the episode.
Barney plays a role in The Simpsons Ride, launched in 2008 at Universal Studios Florida and Hollywood.
He even challenged champion racer Barney Oldfield to a match auto race at the Sheepshead Bay, New York one mile ( 1. 6 km ) dirt track.
You can also camp nearby in private campgrounds at Flanagans Reserve ( near Yellow Pinch ), Bigriggen and Mt Barney Lodge.
It started as a resort town, based around the once renowned automobile race course at Lindo Lake that Barney Oldfield made famous in 1907.
A man named Barney McCue is responsible for at least two murders at Port Penn, one in 1870 and another four years later in 1874.
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