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Before he came to Harvard in 1931. Lamar had an outstanding career as a fighter. He won the national amateur light heavyweight championship in 1925, as a high school senior, in a bout at the Boston Garden. He also held the Pan-American light heavyweight title...
After he was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1929, he boxed professionally until he lost a bout to Jim Maloney at Boston's Braves Field in 1930. He told a friend, "That's enough. I'm never going to be a champion...this is a good time...
...Braves Field bout did not mark the end of Lamar's association with professional boxing. In the 1950s, after some 20 years as Harvard's boxing coach, he was named chairman of the Massachusetts Boxing Commission...
Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell, 52, died June 13 after a long bout with cancer. Russell, a city councilor for 10 years before his election to the higher office in 1983, was the first Cambridge mayor ever to die in office...