Word: coxing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vincent R. Bailey '40, stroke; Howard M. Turner, Jr., '40, 7; Samuel M. Pierce '40, 6; Richard Fay '40, 5; George von L. Meyer, Jr., '38, 4; George C. Cutler, Jr., '40, 3; John S. Stillman '40, 2; John G. Gilkey, Jr., '39 bow; Nathan M. Plaut '39, cox. Robert Homans '40 and John H. Ijams will go along as substitutes...
...taught him to box to protect himself against bullies. After graduating from high school, he hitchhiked to Los Angeles with his coach to try to earn some money to go to college. They soon found themselves in the Los Angeles bread lines. There a local fight promoter named Tom Cox picked them up one day and offered them $1 apiece to box on his programs. No great shakes was Henry Jackson...
...Wirt Ross, a shrewd fight manager, saw possibilities in Henry Jackson, offered Promoter Cox $250 for the skinny-shanked featherweight's contract. The first thing Wirt Ross did was to change Henry Jackson's name to Henry Armstrong. The name worked like a charm. Henry Armstrong became a two-fisted swinger who went into the ring punching and never stopped until he knocked out his exhausted opponent...
...before the Varsity and Jayvee carsmen conclude their season on the twenty-fifth. The present first Bolles crew has Spike Chace at stroke; Beb Stevens, 7; Doug Erickson, 6; John Gardner, 5; Walter Kernan. 4; Dudley Talbot, 3; John Richards, 2; John Clark, bow; and Ed White as cox...
Snapped Mr. Cox: "If the gentleman had the power to fix the wages of labor, would he in the exercise of that power totally and completely disregard the ability of the employer to pay the wage fixed...