Word: champion
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Boekman Pool '32, intercollegiate champion, is playing Jack Somers, well-known professional star at Dunster House this afternoon...
...mile, Harvard is pinning her faith on Hallowell, outdoor champion, who will face such sterling opposition as Coan of Pennsylvania, defending indoor champion, Nordell and Maloney of N. Y. U., Crowley of Manhattan, and Mangan of Cornell, who heat out the Crimson runner at the H-D-C meet last Saturday. McCluskey of Manhattan is favored to defend his title successfully in the two mile and is ambitious to lower his record to a figure around 9 minutes 10 seconds. He is the only two-miler, however, to whom Murphy is willing to concede any superiority. The Crimson distance runner...
...weight 190, onetime heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey last week climbed into a Chicago ring opposite Harry Krakow ("Kingfish Levinsky"), 21-year-old Maxwell Street fish peddler, rated as the tenth best heavyweight in the U. S. The fight, billed as a four round exhibition bout, had drawn a record crowd of 23,332, most of whom expected Dempsey to win, as he himself had suggested, "with one punch." Instead, tottering a little on legs that are no longer capable of the delicate shifts of balance necessary to a fighter, Dempsey found himself unable to maneuver Levinsky into an opening...
When Dempsey last summer announced that he would undertake a series of exhibition bouts to recondition himself for an attempt to regain his title, no one knew exactly what he meant. Skeptics surmised that he had no intention of ever fighting heavyweight Champion Max Schmeling, but mentioned the possibility to increase crowds at his exhibition bouts. After the Levinsky bout, Dempsey was careful, honestly or otherwise, to preserve the uncertainty about his future. Said he: "I know I looked bad last night but I expect to have to take a little the worst of it as I go along...
Other men honored at last week's meeting: Professor Champion Herbert Mathewson of Yale, for "his scientific contributions to the art of working and annealing nonferrous metals"; Professor Corbin T. Eddy of Michigan College of Mining & Technology for being a promising young scientist (TIME, Oct. 26) ; Howard Scott of Westinghouse Co. for his development of special alloys...