Word: defeating
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago public was presented with a bout not on the card when Ritchie Mitchell piled into the ring after his brother Pinky's defeat by Benny Leonard, and struck Referee Miller in the mouth. Ritchie objected to the latter's decision that Leonard had won by knockout without troubling to count Pinky out. Since the round had only five seconds to go when Pinky went down, much of the crowd agreed with Ritchie. Rough and rapid police action saved the referee and approximately ten thousand black eyes among the crowd...
...Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, American tennis ace, received another setback when she fell before the brilliant attack of Miss Kathleen Mc-Kane, England's first ranking player, in the finals of the Middlesex tournament. The only relieving ray in Mrs. Mallory's sky was her defeat of Mrs. Beamish earlier in the play...
...defeat of the season came on April 25 when Princeton batted its way to a 1 to 0 victory in a thrilling contest in which both teams fielded perfectly...
Although the Freshman baseball team ended its season disastrously with a 17 to 9 defeat at the hands of Yale last Saturday, the nine pulled through a difficult schedule with a record of 12 victories out of 16 games, its average for the season being 750. Piling up 146 runs to its opponents 82, the Crimson showed an ability to hit at critical points--an ability which several times was responsible for spectacular ninth inning victories...
Princeton, N. J., June 7.--The Princeton ball team received its second set-back of the year this afternoon in an 11 to 4 defeat at the hands of Boston College. The visitors won the game in the sixth inning when they scored eight runs on seven hits and two errors...