Word: feathering
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...fail to bring out a large audience at the Second Winter Meeting. This meeting, like the one the week before, proved to be of unusual excellence. The interest centred in the sparring. Never do we remember of seeing three such pretty and well-contested bouts in the feather-weight. The light-weight, too, was contested with exceptional science. All the events were good, because the contestants were evenly matched. It was a surprise to many that the '87 tug-of-war team should make such a good fight against the always victorious...
...FEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING.F. P. Clement, '88; L. S. Thayer, '88; W. H. Dame, '90, and E. W. Grew, '89, the winner of the bout with A. C. Coolidge, '87, at the last meeting, were the contestants in the feather-weight sparring...
...FEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING. 1 - E. W. Grew...
...FEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING.To make an even number of contestants so as to prevent any one having the advantage of a bye, one bout of the feather - weight sparring was decided Saturday. A. C. Coolidge, '87, and E. W. Grew, '89. were drawn for this meeting. The first round opened smartly, although more than half of the blows fell short and those that did reach the mark had little strength in them. Grew did not seem to have command of the situation and ducked in a very tempting manner. Coolidge took advantage of this and landed several upper-cuts, without, however...
...FEATHER-WEIGHT WRESTLING.S. Paine, '90, was unable to come down to weight, and the event was in consequence a walk-over for A. C. Coolidge...