Word: fights
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Eagan of Troy has gone into training for a fight with Sullivan...
...pistol fight is reported in the legislature at Bogota, but no details have been received...
...London Philharmonic Society produced the ninth of Liszt's symphonic poems, entitled "Hungaria," for the first time in England on the 23d ult. The music describes a band of horsemen advancing across the "Pushta," or Hungarian prairie. They encounter the enemy and after a free fight a funeral march to the slain is introduced, followed by a joyous cry of victory in which a Hungarian national melody, already used by Herr Brahms, is employed...
...sparring and wrestling contests should be appointed from members of the association in college at the time of the events. The college feeling in regard to sparring is higher than that outside; what is desired is scientific sparring; we do not want a slugging match or a glove fight as they have at Yale. As in fencing a touch counts, so in sparring science ought to count, and one heavy blow should not count as much as two well directed light ones. If the judges decide in favor of heavy sparring, then that kind of work comes up from year...
...glove fight has been interrupted in New Haven, Ct., and the participants brought before the court. The defence will show that glove boxing is practised for prizes in the Yale Gymnasium...