Word: antagonist
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Third round. - Again the fighting was hard, and aroused intense enthusiasm. Smith did better than in the preceding round, but still did not seem a match for his sturdy antagonist...
Quarrels among gentlemen are certainly unfortunate, but unless the correspondent can show how they can be avoided, except by abject submission to the terms of our antagonist, I do not see what is to be done. The writer relieves our minds by informing us "that the majority of graduates, and he believes, undergraduates, desire that the race shall be rowed squarely and fairly." I hope that it is not the Boat Club or the graduate committee that he suspects of any desire to row it in any other way. He wishes "that the arrangements should be settled in private...
...great extent taken the place of the return from the back of the court after the first bound of the ball. The effect will be to give a player who can place the return more opportunity of playing the ball on one or the other side of an antagonist who stands in the middle of the court prepared to volley...
...Fencing (second drawing), D. Leavitt came into the hall as the antagonist of Underwood, the winner of the second bout, first drawing. During the set-to the parties seemed evenly matched, Leavitt getting a few more points, while he was disarmed twice by Underwood. The fencing was rather better than in the previous bouts. Underwood is left-handed, and has some very good tricks, His "tierce" is to be especially praised. The bout was awarded to Leavitt by a score of 7 points...
...London Sportsman in an editorial, says: "A player should be absolutely prohibited from running full butt against an antagonist and dashing him to the ground, should he be unable to withstand the impact. Foot ball would prove none the less interesting were it to be shorn of its roughness and horse play...