Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Asked which he thought more strem: ous, football or boxing, Sharkey answered. "I think playing football is hardier than boxing, and I was fullback on the Navy team A boxer can run around the ring and then rest, but there's no rest in football Besides college training is stricter than a boxer...
...meeting is to be preceded by a dinner for twelve prominent boxers at 6.30 o'clock at the Varsity Club. Among these men will be Jack Sharkey, heavyweight aspirant, who is scheduled to give an exhibition bout with a well known heavyweight boxer. Another bout of interest will be that between two members of this year's football team, W. W. Lord '28 and John Parkinson '29. Preceding these exhibitions Dane Egan is scheduled to give a talk on boxing. Details of the spring practice and the coaches engaged will also be announced. J. L. Knox '98 will explain...
...Open Door Policy and the Boxer Movement of 1897-1901." Professor Hornbeck, Harvard...
Married. Martin Egan, able publicity representative of J. P. Morgan & Co. and onetime newspaper correspondent for the Associated Press in London, Tokyo, Peking and Manila, war correspondent during Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, Boxer Uprising and Russo-Japanese War, onetime (1908-13) Editor of the Manila Times, personal assistant (1917) to Chairman Henry P. Davison of the American Red Cross War Council, Civilian Aide (1918) to General John Joseph Pershing; to Miss Cornelia Cousins; in Manhattan. General Pershing was best man. In 1905 Mr. Egan married in Yokohama, Eleanor Franklin, famed war correspondent for Leslie's Weekly. She died...
...neutral corner and waited until his antagonist arose or was counted out. Instead he stood over him; went to the wrong corner. Thus five seconds were lost before he reached the neutral corner and the actual count began over the prostrate Tunney. Tunney rose after the ninth second. A boxer is knocked out after ten seconds. Actually, Tunney was down 14. Tunney insists that his head was clear after the first few seconds and that he could have risen within the first ten seconds; that, grasping the situation, he waited for the extra respite to arise stronger, steadier...