Word: bout
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next event was the first bout in the light-weight boxing between J. L. Putnam, Harvard '92, and Frank Peters, B. Y. M. C. U. The first round was very hot, but, although Putnam used his right well, Peters had the best of it. The succeeding rounds were much like the first, and Peters was declared the winner...
...second bout in the light-weight boxing between Mr. Brice and Mr. Conquest, both members of the B. Y. M. C. A., was the next event. Brice forced all the fighting and was awarded the bout...
...McLanahan, '92, won with apparent ease, by a jump of 5 feet, 1 inch, Roddy, '91, and Small, '92, tying for second place. Mr. Stoll, of Staten Island Athletic Club, gave an exhibition of rope climbing, making the 35 feet in 10 1-5 seconds. There was only one bout in heavy weight wrestling, contested by Huston, '89, and Pierson, '90, won by Huston. Mr. Molineux of the New York Athletics, and amateur champion of America, won the horizontal bar, after an exhibition of very difficult feats, with Mr. Stoll a good second. In the middle weight wrestling the first...
...throw of 35 feet, 2 inches, and a handicap of 5 feet, while Hill, '90, gained second prize on a put of 35 feet, 5 inches and a handicap of 4 feet, 6 inches. In the light weight wrestling, Davis, '92, won from Taintor, '91, and in the second bout, Page, '91, threw Todd, '89. The final bout between the winners of the first two bouts, was awarded to Page, '91, Davis having sprained his arm. J. J. Kraft, of the Nonpareil Rowing Club, gave a pretty exhibition of club swinging, which was followed by the spring-board jump...
Allen Lowe, the present fencing master of the Harvard Fencing Club, was matched last evening against Shaw of Boston in his first professional bout. The bout was won after much skillful fencing by Mr. Lowe...