Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formerly the incentive that led athletes to take up boxing. While these men were young they boxed in the local gymnasium in a keen but friendly manner which developed that instructive knack of ring generalship that is so necessary in the making of a champion. This type of boxer was the product of the city neighborhood athletic club...
...College Boxer Better Adapted...
...college boxer is better adapted to boxing than the man who has not been to college. This is especially true since boxing is no longer a battle of brute strength alone, but requires that a successful fighter be able to use his wits as well as his muscles...
...would have Luis' blood. The South American Boxing Commission heeded his beatings, his shoutings. Holding that the Wild Bull of the Pampas had not answered within a reasonable time this Chile-bean's challenge, they took away his title, proclaimed Quintin Romero to be champion heavyweight boxer of South America...
Again the generous gesture, the truly diplomatic move, the spirit of friendliness with which John Hay, at the time of the Boxer Rebellion, finding the sum of the indemnity awarded in excess of legitimate claims, returned the balance in the form of a similar fund for Chinese students...