Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boxing experts, photographed with Champion Braddock feeling his muscles, pronounced better than Louis by famed Jack Johnson (who is jealous of the fighter who may become the second Negro heavyweight champion in ring history), Haynes and Camera climbed into a Brooklyn ring. Less impressive than their first performance, the bout lasted nine rounds, ended in a technical knockout. Pounded on the head by 87 of Haynes's looping righthanders, Camera suddenly stopped fighting, dragged himself over to the ropes, announced that he could not move his left leg. Doctors, after jabbing the leg with pins, agreed that...
...roomful of bigwigs, including New Jersey's Governor Harold Hoffman. Beefy Governor Hoffman promptly proceeded to put the show on the front pages by flooring with one blow a spindly Hearstling named Lou Wedemar who heckled him about his handling of the Hauptmann case. After this preliminary bout the bigwigs were taken to look at the show. Advertised as a "representative cross-section of American art," it was really a representative cross-section of American taste. Organized U. S. artists had boycotted it because the Municipal Art Committee refused to pay artists a rental fee of 1% per month...
...these fisticuffs. Though they witnessed no knockouts, they received their money's worth, watching: ¶ The 118-lb. championship match which Jackie Wilson, a six-foot Negro bootblack won simply because his pint-sized opponent could not reach his face. ¶ The 147-lb. title bout which Negro Howell King won despite the unholy booing of partisan spectators who thought he had overcome Chicago's own Chester Rutecki by low punches. ¶ The 160-lb. championship contest which went to Negro Jimmy Clark, who was so enraged at the continued booing that he floored his Syracuse University opponent...
...unconfirmed rumor has been unearthed that Professor Merriman has sent a challenge to Julian L. Coolidge '95, Lowell's Master, to a formal bowling bout...
Last week Washington saw the first world championship boxing bout in the capital's history. Opponents for the fourth time were Fisticuffers Miller and Sarron. Though he failed to harm his opponent, who cleverly ducked & bobbed, Champion Miller piled up a comfortable point lead in the opening rounds. In the ninth Challenger Sarron began a blistering offensive, pummeled Miller around the ring. In the 13th round Miller was hanging on the ropes. The 18th went the same way. The title went to Sarron. Boasted he: "Freddie...