Word: bouting
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...repertoire includes some genuine wrestling holds, Shikat was diligently working up a great hate with which to defend his "world's wrestling championship" against the Terrible Turk for the second time. Two weeks before, Baba had trounced him in Detroit in what was billed as a world championship bout. This billing was not recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission which demanded another bout, this time in Manhattan, to prove the Turk's rightful claim...
...pound class between Peter B. Olney '37 and the Yale Captain, Huffman, the judges were again split. The referee voted for Harvard. Again the bout went to Yale on the basis of the total points scored by each judge...
Yale supported these decisions on the ground that the N.C.A.A. rules provided that the winner of a bout should be determined in case of a tie between the two judges, not by the tie-breaking vote of the referee, but by totalling the points scored by each judge from round to round of the bout. These notes, how- ever, are personal memoranda taken by each judge at his own option merely to assist him in casting an impersonal vote, according to the N.C.A.A. and according to customary usage...
...first conference, Harvard representatives, thinking that they might have been in error for years through some slip long since forgotten, asked the National Collegiate Athletic Association Rules Committee for the correct interpretation of the rules and were informed that by unanimous vote of the Committee the Ellis-Loomis bout was a draw and that the Olney-Huffman bout should have been given to Olney, making the final score of the meet 5 1/2-2 1/2 for Harvard...
...rules committee further more explicitly stated that there was no rule in the guide which states that the aggregate total points should decide. The rule covering the matter reads as follow: "At the end of the bout the judge shall write the name of the winner on his tabulation card. If both agree, the decision is final. If they do not agree, the referee casts the deciding vote...