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Winthrop, Kirkland, and Eliot Houses carried off the lion's share of the glory in the recent intramural boxing tourney, conducted Tuesday and Wednesday in the Indoor Athletic Building, and the entry list of 42 showed an increase or ten over last year's House fistic program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 42 BOXERS COMPETE | 2/24/1940 | See Source »

...YORK--Welterweight champion Henry Armstrong blasted his way to greater fistic glory tonight by successfully defending his title against a much heavier challenger, Ceforino Garcia, Philippine boxer, in a fifteen-round fight at Madisou Square Garden...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Over the Wire | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

...Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short ribs-a common ribroaster in fistic circles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks | 7/4/1938 | See Source »

...better qualified to be coach of the fistic art than Lamar. His whole career to date is almost exclusively tied up with boxing. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1907, he has lived mostly in Mississippi and Virginia. He attended the University of Virginia, class of 1928, and it was there that he achieved most prominence as an amateur...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar as Past Master of Boxing Is Well Qualified to Coach Ring Science | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

Lamar, for all his fistic career, has never been cut; never has suffered a cauliflower car. He attributes his success in this line to the fact that "I just didn't get hit enough." He is a strong advocate of scientific boxing, and dislikes the slugger type of fighter, because, "if you have a man who can win by slugging, and can teach him the art of boxing; then he'll end up practically unbeatable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lamar as Past Master of Boxing Is Well Qualified to Coach Ring Science | 3/2/1938 | See Source »

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