Word: bouting
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...weeks after one Pete McCoy had disgracefully lost a San Francisco bout in 1899, tricky, cruel Boxer Kid McCoy gave Joe Choynski a terrific walloping. "This is the real McCoy!" exclaimed a sportswriter, thus coining an enduring U. S. phrase...
...Negro Boxer Henry Armstrong, whose contract is owned by Cinemactor Al Jolson: his ten-round bout against Aldo Spoldi, lightweight champion of Italy, by decision; in Manhattan...
While ending the annual bout between six hundred weary students and Finer's analysis of the German bureaucracy, the April Hour Examination in Government 1 renews the instructors' difficult task of adjusting grades to the Lowell Distribution Curve. Adopted years ago after a scientific study of Freshman marks, the Curve has long served as the God which all Yardling markers must reverence. Although the high calibre of Government One bluebooks now soars above the scientifically established limits, section men are warned not to violate the Gospel according to Lowell. But changing conditions must make too rigid adherence to a static...
Undoubtedly the feature bout was a brilliant seesaw battle in the unlimited class in which Tudor Gardiner, undefeated Yardling, finally triumphed over Roderick H. Cox 1G by the meagre time advantage of 1:53. At different periods during the exhaustive match both came within a hair's breadth of pinning the other...
...Major bout of the afternoon was the fight to place in the finals of the 175-pound class. Dick Lewis, who held a place on the Freshman team this season, finally downed Ernest V. Keyes 3L after two exhaustive overtimes. He will face Daughaday, who wrestled 165 on the Yardling force and who overcame undefeated Tudor Gardiner '40 in order to place...