Word: clinch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound class, H. M. Kullman '27 encountered more difficulty than any of the new titleholders. He downed three opponents, the last after two overtime periods. Morris Nicholson 1L. champion of the 145-pound class, and George Karelitz 1L. winner in the 158-pound class, downed two men apiece to clinch their titles...
...feature of the afternoon was the bout between R. H. Hopkins 31, and Joseph Hammer '28, which ended without a decision from the judges. It was brought to a sudden close when Hopkins, colliding with his opponent in a clinch, lost a tooth in the latter's head. Hammer was taken to Wadsworth House for treatment. Over 200 people witnessed the matches...
...clinch the pennant Washington must now clean up the remaining three games with the Red Sox providing New York takes three more from the Athletics...
Only four clean blows were struck, all by Wills, and those disconnectedly. In the first round, he jarred the Bull Man's head. In the second, he laid the Bull Man suddenly horizontal with a right jaw-punch, as they were backing out of a clinch. The third was a blood-bringing uppercut to the Bull Man's jaw. The last, a stiff left to the same spot...
...Townley seemed groggy. Carpentier got in another of his famed rights, and the Englishman was horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley for more, tried to clinch in order to avoid defeat, and then- with the steely precision of a piston rod Georges' right crashed to the solar plexus anglicus and Townley was counted out. "Foul!" shrieked 15,000 Viennese. But the Vienna Boxing Association said...