Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Clement of Harvard and Whitney of Technology met in the first bout of the feather-weight sparring. The first round was tame; Clement had the advantage. The second and third rounds were more lively; in these Clement easily had the advantage, and the bout was awarded...
...first bout of the light-weight, Austin, '87, against Hillebrand, '87, resulted in a victory for the former, who thereby won the light-weight cup. The sparring was hard and marked by much clinching. The three rounds were so close that a fourth had to be fought to decide the contest...
Ashe and Shockley fought the three prettiest and most scientific rounds of the day, in the first bout of the middle-weight. Ashe-won the contest...
...last Friday evening all the glad bibulation culminated in one grand "Bier Kommers," in which all the members of the university participated. It was held in the great Fest Halle and was attended by from four to five thousand persons. At eight and a half o'clock the bout began; and the cock had crowed himself hoarse in welcoming full orbed day before it was ended. I have attended similar gatherings in Heidelberg before, but none which in magnitude and glory could be compared with this. Grave professors, gray-haired students of bygone times, guests, royal and otherwise, jaunty young...
...understood that two heavy-weights from '88 are to meet in a private sparring bout this week...