Word: feathering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entries from Harvard for the light weight-sparring at the Technology games this afternoon are W. Austin, '87, D. M. Ashe, '87, W. Hillebrand, '87, and F. B. Curtis, '90; the only entry for the feather-weight sparring is Clement...
...Feather-weight sparring...
EVENTS:First Winter Meeting, Saturday, March 19th. - Heavy-weight sparring, middle-weight sparring, heavy-weight wrestling, middle-weight wrestling, light-weight wrestling, feather-weight wrestling, putting the shot...
Second Winter Meeting, Saturday, March 26th. Ladies' Day. - Two-hand fence-vault, light-weight sparring, feather-weight sparring, parallel bars, standing high jump, club swinging (legitimate), fencing...
...regard to the winter meetings, we are glad to see that the custom of past years has been retained in holding the feather-weight sparring on the first Ladies' Day. It had been proposed to transfer it to the first meeting, which would have brought all the sparring on one already over-crowded day, and also would have unjustly handicapped men who might wish to enter not only the feather-weight, but also the light-weight contests. A number of arguments have been urged, to be sure, against having any boxing on a Ladies' Day, the chief of which...