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Hussey maintained an open-water lead over the remaining three entrants, who rowed and finished within a deck length of each other, providing the only traces of competition in the event...
...take him out in the seventh or eighth round," said Lightweight Champion Joe Brown just before he climbed into the ring in Houston to defend his title against nimble, light-punching Challenger Ralph Dupas. As good as his word, the lean Louisiana Negro put Dupas on the deck three times in the eighth, finally stepped back politely to let Referee Jimmy Webb announce what everyone in the arena already knew: Brown was still the boss of the 135-lb. division...
...varsity race began with Penn taking a lead of about a deck length right from the start. The Crimson kept up with the Red and Blue crew during the body of the race with both boats rowing at around a 32. Coming through the Harvard Bridge, the Crimson shell moved even with Penn and slowly eased into a lead...
...race was the only one in which the Crimson was pushed hard. The Junior Varsity finished only one second ahead of a fast closing Syracuse squad. The deck length victory...
...fire sirens wailed and choking smoke poured through the ship, a few men passengers panicked and rushed into the lifeboats ahead of sobbing women and screaming children. When they ignored orders to get out, they were knocked unconscious by crew members and dragged back on deck. But after that, the ship was. abandoned in perfect order. In 35 minutes the Skaubryn was roaring from end to end like an acetylene torch, but every passenger and seaman was in the safety of lifeboats on the calm sea. As long as they were able, the two radio operators sent out SOS signals...