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...University Boxing championship wil start with the preliminary boiuts on Tuesday, March 22 at 4:30 o'clock. This fistic tournament will be open to all members of the University who are in good standing. The entry blue books are posted in Leavitt and Peirce's and at the Hemenway Gymnasium. These entries will be closed Friday and no late applications will be accepted. There will be seven classes: 115,125,135,145,160,175 pounds and an unlimited class. The weight allowance is four pounds. After the preliminary bouts have been fought the finals will be held on Friday...
...University's intercollegiate boxing debut in a match to be held March 26 in Hemenway gymnasium. Although boxing as yet is not recognized as an organized sport in the University, the activity of the athletic authorities in attempting to secure this match points to the future organization of the fistic art as a minor sport. If boxing does become a minor sport it is expected that the change will be effected on a basis similar to that used at Yale...
...similar plea for a boxing team at Princeton has just been favorably received by the Tiger Athletic Committee according to an announcement received yesterday. Fistic activities at Princeton have been banished for over two decades as the result of a free-for-all fight after a match in 1906. The Princeton legislation and the Harvard agitations are regarded as evidences of recurring interest in pugilism among the colleges...
...lively days for the triumphant Mr. Tunney--first Bernard Shaw and now the New York police force, neither of which is easily ignored. The beau ideal of the Marines turned, as champions and ex-champions always have turned, to the vaudeville stage where he was scheduled to give "fistic exhibitions". But when he attempted to appear the first night, at one of the Loew palaces in New York, he was arrested for breaking a statute against boxing. Brute strength had to yield to respect for legal restrictions and the philosopher of the gloves was forced to remain off-stage, though...
...boxing tights is one method, and Mr. Tunney found that constant use has dulled its aptitude. Doubtless he will new get a more supple lawyer, one versed in such acrobatics as getting away with an improper thing in a perfectly proper manner. But in the interim there are no "fistic exhibitions", and the champion is left to reflect bitterly on the inconstancy of fortune. No one--except perhaps Mr. Dempsey -- will blame Mr. Tunney for giving birth to the blues...