Word: bout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Idlers, lacking cash, heard little clamor from the crevices of Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. Jack Sharkey, Bostonian, eminent contender for the world's heavyweight championship, was battling Tom Heeney, New Zealander. The fight was promised as an important preliminary for the next Gene Tunney championship bout. Outpouring spectators complained Friday, 13, was unlucky for them. The fight was dull; declared a draw...
...feature of the meet was the win in the heavyweight class which T. D. Howe Jr. '28, captain of the Harvard matmen, gained over Curit of Tufts three minutes before the end of their overtime bout. Another match went overtime but all bouts were settled by decisions of the referee and none by falls...
...course a cow produces far more milk than that. A good one will give bout 25,000 Ibs. a year and feel proud. Yet Segis Pietertje Prospect, property of Carnation Stock Farm at Oconomowoc, Wis., might well boo at such normalcy. She has filled the pails with 37,381.4 Ibs. of milk in a single year-the world's record. She is a Holstein...
...first fight was the Greb-Wilson bout for the middle-weight championship (1524). His prominence extended with World's Series baseball. His first great national, non-sporting events were the Demo-cratic and Republican Conventions of 1924; his most famed, the Lindbergh receptions this summer. At the Radio World Fair in 1925, he won a solid gold cup (in the form of a microphone) as most popular announcer in the U. S., receiving 189,470 votes out of 1,161,659. He receives a huge "fan" mail, including marriage proposals. He is married to Josephine Garrett, concert and church soprano...
...Pontypridd, Wales, 41 years ago, Freddie Welsh was born. He fought his first boxing bout at 19, quickly stepped to the front as a great defensive artist. In 1914 he won the world's lightweight title from Willie Ritchie. His best year was 1916 when he defeated Benny Leonard, Ritchie, Mitchell, Ever Hammer, Ad Wolgast, Charlie White. In 1917 he experienced his only knockout, lost the championship to Leonard...