Word: fighters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Battling Siki, dark blot on the Carpentier 'scutcheon, lost the light heavyweight championship of the world in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day to Mike McTigue, third-rate American fighter. In the 17th round of the scheduled 20, the Senegalese faltered about the ring, groggy before McTigue's punches, finally falling into a clinch to hug himself safe from a knockout. The American received the decision on points...
...When the fighters appeared, Firpo's shrieking check bathrobe, done in gold, black and purple, seemed to intrigue the audience rather more than the fighter within it. Brennan jumped through the ropes in a ragged old red sweater. Firpo weighed 220; Brennan...
...cups: having sipped the vinegar of defeat and clinked our glasses to the health of the Crimson cohorts, we would propose a least to a man whose achievements have made history for the past four years of Yale Harvard competition. An outstanding athlete a clean sports man, a fighter all the way his prowess always to be feared and admired whether on aridiron, diamond or rink, George Owen. Yale News
Undoubtedly crowds poured out their money to see the "Battle of a Century", and crowds invariably gather to hall a champion prize-fighter, or watch an automobile accident, or a dub being photographed; just as what O. Henry called "professional rubberneckers" have dons from time immemorial. But all this overflow of curiosity to gaze on champions, or white elephants, for that matter, is certainly not now and does not indicate a state of moral depravity any more now that it did in the days of that prince of "rubberneckers", Samuel Pepys, who "did wait two hours to behold the King...
...dashes and the 440, so that the race should develop into a battle between Stevenson of Princeton, Driacoll of Boston College, Roy of Rutgers, Koppisoh of Columbia, John of Cornell, and Williamson of Stanford Stevenson is at present the national champion, while Driscoll is known as a great fighter with an ability to finish strong...