Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...expected Deglane to get a fall. Again they wrestled. Lewis threw Deglane. But when the French-Canadian got up he grimaced pitiably, held out his right arm, showed toothmarks, swore that Lewis had bitten him. Indignant, the referee conferred with athletic commissioners, awarded the fall, the bout, the championship, to Deglane. Indignant, Wrestler Lewis accused the new "champion" of having, like the hero of the old wrestling anecdote (who did it by mistake), bitten himself...
...shabby, smalltime sporting-club in Brooklyn, 2,000 representatives of the fertile social sediment in which prizefighting has its roots last week watched a preliminary bout between two light heavyweights. One was a shaky, timid Negro, the other a slow-footed, lumbering white man with a scarred face and a flat nose. In the first round, the Negro fell without being hit, then, in the second, took a left hook on the face and was counted out. Like most cheap preliminaries, it was mediocre entertainment and the crowd booed. Unlike most cheap preliminaries, it was described at length in metropolitan...
...program's biggest upset came when Hines defeated R. E. Torres 2G. Torres was defending champion in the 160-pound class and slated to win the title again this year, but the hard-hitting freshman got the decision after three rounds of fighting. In the next best bout D. D. Carrick successfully defended his title in the unlimited class against the assault of J. F. Schlafly 1L. The contest, while well-fought, was rather slow, and the fighters did not show the form which was expected of them...
...first encounter of the program Arthur Palaza battered G. C. Doyle '34 for two rounds until the bout was stopped. Since there were no other entrants in the 125-pound class, Palaza became champion by this victory. Ferguson won from F. P. Viviano 11, in the second about to gain the right to fight in the finals of the 145-pound class. Hines easily triumphed over E. M. Bullard 1G. B. to enter the final round of the 160-pound class in the third bout...
...foils competition, Cassidy exhibited superior form to win all of his bouts. His only hard fight came in the bout with J. D. Allen '31, which he won five to four. Losing only one of his foils encounters, Wesselman took second place, and Gilbert Kerlin '33 placed third...