Word: fistic
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...with bootlegging. "Bill" Brennan, aged 31, became famed when he stood up to Jack Dempsey at Madison Square Garden for 12 rounds in 1920, a feat which he repeated against Luis Angel Firgo at the same place last year. He was, however, never considered a front-ranker in the fistic world and retired after his disastrous fight last Fall with "Billy" Miske (now dead), when he was knocked out in the fourth round...
...were transported to Manhattan. They and their chaperones were housed on an entire floor of the Waldorf-Astoria. They were taken in a fleet of taxicabs to see the Acting Mayor. They were paraded, with three bands, up Fifth avenue. Then, in Madison Square Garden, famed scene of great fistic encounters, the 88 beauties assembled for the Mineralava Valentino Beauty Contest, afterwards known as The National Beauty Contest, while Valentino picked...
Despite his age and extensive experience not strictly pugilistic, Jack Johnson proved his assertions that he is still prominent among fistic black oxen by tying Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine skull cracker, in a flock of knots in a "workout" match in New York, prior to Firpo's successful encounter with Bill Brennan...
...Larry" Conley is pleased with the wealth of material this year. In R. W. Sedgwick '21, who won the heavyweight championship of the University his Freshman year, he has a strong contender for the title in that class. B. Lockwood Unc. is another heavy-weight who has exhibited unusual fistic talent, while R. K. McKaye '23 is also expected to prove one of the leaders in the tournament...