Word: defending
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four champions are expected to defend their crowns at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association meet, March 12 and 13, at Lehigh University. They are Captain Rudy Ashman, Lehigh, who was 113-pound champion in 1935 and 126-pound champion in 1936. Dick Bishop, Lehigh 155-pound champion, Captain Morris S. Emory, Princeton, 165-pound champion, and Jack Light. Penn State, 135-pound titleholder in 1935 and '36. Light may not defend his title as he been wrestling at 145 pounds during the dual meet season...
...hire out his admirable talents as a lawyer to those whom liberals most dislike: great corporations. Liberals could not forgive him that even though he had in 1920 hired out the same talents to John L. Lewis, William Green and other officials of the United Mine Workers to defend them when they were charged with conspiracy to prevent the mining of coal...
...draw a $1,000,000 gate, than against Schmeling, with whom he, might draw $200,000. Last week, in contempt of his contract with Madison Square Garden as well as of every principle of good sportsmanship, Champion Braddock signed a contract, approved by the Illinois State Athletic Commission, to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago's Comiskey Park on June 22. Madison Square Garden threatened it would go to court to stop the fight...
...result has been that the structure of the team is being built up from the bottom; and another result is that for the first time in the history of the meet the track team will walk onto the Garden Boards Saturday night not only not the favorite to successfully defend its title, but expected by many to end up in last place...
...fire to even the match. He went into the lead in the last game, but never by more than three or four points. Ridder, by remarkable playing, evened the game at seventeen all, but Dorson took the last point. Germain G. Glidden '36, who won last year, did not defend his title...