Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eastern boxing arbiters regard with disfavor the roughness of towheaded middle-weight contender Ace Hudkins. They regard with suspicion the astuteness of Jack Kearns, manager of Middle-weight Champion Mickey Walker. Before Hudkins and Walker got in a ring together one cool starry night in Los Angeles last week, rumors...
On the S. S. Olympic in Southampton, England, last week, carpenters went to work on a bunk. They tore out the end of it, made it much longer. They put a row of thick struts under it to make it bear twice a normal sleeper's weight. The White...
In New York City, Congressman Fiorello ("Little Flower") H. La Guardia, flamboyant campaigner, Wet, contested for the Republican nomination for Mayor with William M. Bennett, Dry. In the count there were nearly four La Guardia votes for every Bennett vote. Yet the total vote cast was not much over 80...
Maximilian Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, his license to fight where fighting is most lucrative still withheld by the New York State Boxing Commission was "practically a nervous wreck" as he stepped aboard the Hamburg-American liner Albert Ballin, bound for Berlin, his mother and a rest. Warned that unless he...
S. W. Swaim '31 was at bow in the second University shell during the workout and B. J. Harrison '29, another strong contender for the stroking berth, was pulling the No. 6 car in the first eight. Allerton Cushman '29 who has also been given an opportunity to prove his...