Word: champion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first round, Primo Camera lumbered out of his corner and shuffled his huge feet while Tommy Loughran dabbed his lantern jaw with a left jab. In the second and third rounds the champion tried to rush the challenger against the ropes but failed; Loughran, fast on his feet, landed one solid right hand punch. The fourth round was Loughran's, but by now Camera had learned how to crowd his opponent into the corners. In the fifth, he caught Loughran against the ropes and began to smash his face with wide clublike blows. A blonde woman near the ringside...
...crowd of 10,000, smallest in 43 years for a heavyweight championship fight, in the Miami arena last week, this was an amazing beginning. Weeks of intensive sneers in the Press had led them to believe that the bout between a 270-lb. champion from Italy and a challenger who was five years older and 86 Ib. lighter was as unfair as it sounded. Now, on a windy evening with rain pattering on rows and rows of empty $20 seats, they became aware that the spectacle under the warm cone of light at the centre of the Madison Square Garden...
...landed in the U. S. in 1929-, an illiterate monster with a French manager, has won him any praise or popularity. After last week's bout, Challenger Loughran, lauded as the finest sportsman among U. S. prizefighters, spoke of "rabbit punches and backhand blows," complained that the champion should have been disqualified for stepping on his foot. Monster Camera was more polite: "He [Loughran] was fighting a great fight. ... I should have knocked him out but it would have been shameful to treat such a courageous opponent in such fashion...
...high jump will not give Harvard a look in. The Green will without a doubt sweep the event, Woodberry and Lindstrom having shown their stuff at the Intercollegiates on Monday. Woodberry gave Champion George Spitz of NYU a fine sky jumping battle. The broad jump based on previous performances of the entries should go to Stowe of Dartmouth, with Godshall of Cornell second and Rodman of Dartmouth third. Harvard has a good number of potential scorers in this event who may crash through to give the Crimson several much needed points. There is Eddie Calvin and Windy Hasler and Captain...
...three teams that the closest team contest in the fifteen years of the games is predicted. The program is a first-rate one and promises many smashing races. In the 45-yard high hurdles alone there are entered four of the five finalists in the Intercollegiate Championships, including champion Walter Irwin of Cornell. The Harvard lineup...