Word: bouting
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Battling Siki, Negro heavyweight, grows stranger week by week. Tex Rickard queried the Senegalese by cable on his terms for a bout with Kid Norfolk in America. Siki's response named such an enormous figure that even the expansive Rickard held up his hands in horror...
Blood from Jack Dempsey's left eye dropped all over the newsprint of the country. The champion was batted in a sparring bout and the injury forced his layoff for several days...
...Chicago public was presented with a bout not on the card when Ritchie Mitchell piled into the ring after his brother Pinky's defeat by Benny Leonard, and struck Referee Miller in the mouth. Ritchie objected to the latter's decision that Leonard had won by knockout without troubling to count Pinky out. Since the round had only five seconds to go when Pinky went down, much of the crowd agreed with Ritchie. Rough and rapid police action saved the referee and approximately ten thousand black eyes among the crowd...
Pete Herman, former bantanweight champion, who went totally blind as a result of a blow received in an exhibition bout for charity, has regained the sight of one eye. Herman had been under treatment for a year and in bed for three months with his eyes bandaged. Said he, when the gauze rolls were removed: "Thank God, I can see! I will never fight again, but I'll be a manager...
Jess Willard, on hearing that Luis Angel Firpo has signed for a bout with him on July 7: " Good! I know I can beat all those setups. Firpo's beating McAuliffe didn't amount to much. McAuliffe was young and inexperienced, and I can't see where Firpo showed great work in beating this youngster...