Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first place the meeting was rather too long, even for the patience of enthusiasts. The air in the gymnasium gets pretty bad after being drawn upon for three or four consecutive hours. The sparring was good, although there was more slugging at times then should characterize a friendly bout between gentlemen. The wrestling was not as good as we have seen it, and there was a little too much of it. However, the meeting was, on the whole, a success, and the management of the H. A. A. is certainly to be congratulated on its energy in getting so many...
...second round Gaines attempted a more aggressive style, rather too much so, for it gave Ellis a fine chance. Ellis was decidedly the fresher at the end of the third round and was awarded the feather-weight. A little surprise was now in store for the spectators. A bout was announced between Bangs and Bowen, Harvard '88, whose name did not appear on the program. This was the closest contest of all. Bowen took the aggressive. At the middle of the second round he seemed to be having the best of it, when Bangs rushed him. Bowen seemed dazed...
...best of it, coolly meeting Walters's rushes with his left. Towards the end of the second round Walters appeared to be in great pain, and at the beginning of the third it was announced that he had sprained his leg and would not appear. Ellis was given the bout. R. C. Williams, M. I. T., and C. R. L. Putnam, Harvard, '91, also feather-weights, next appeared. In the first round matters were very even, Putnam was forcing the fight. The second one, however, began to show against the Harvard man. The third round was clearly William...
...Harvard '90 team did not appear, having been notified by Dr. Sargent, at the last moment, not to enter. As Clement, '88, and Hale, '91, did not contest, Ashe, L. S., was the only Harvard representative. In his first bout he easily defeated Gassett, an English amateur, after three exciting and scientific rounds. His splendid training showed itself in his second bout, with Hanlan, the latter refusing to come to time for the third round...
...seems but natural that Harvard men should consider a rush or a rough-and-tumble foot-ball game a relic of barbarism, but it is inexplicable how men who have been in Cambridge a year can consider a public drinking bout as more desirous, more manly than these. Perhaps we see here again the indifference which has destroyed our prestige in athletic sports...