Word: fisticuffs
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Neither can Bjorn Borg, who won Wimbledon yet again against pesky John McEnroe in a splendid display of tennis. Nor can Tommy Hearns, who thumped the imposing welterweight Pipino Cuevas in a recent fisticuff duel that left even the boxing intelligentsia spouting nothing but superlatives. Nor can Roberto Duran, who showed that the impregnable wall of hype built up around welterweight Sugar Ray Leonard could be rammed through in a bare ring. Nor can the Soviet Olympic Committee, which continues to insists that the Olympics were an unmitigated triumph; nor can the U.S. Olympic Committee, which maintains that the Games...
Asserting that boxing develops the spirit of alertness, Henry N. Lamar, Varsity boxing coach, outlined plans to include fisticuff instruction in the new compulsory athletic program. Lamar plans to "eliminate the frills" in the proposed program to turn out aggressive and alert army material...
Pugilists from House, Yard, and Graduate schools will turn out today for the annual University boxing tournament in the Indoor Athletic Building. According to Henry Lamar, fisticuff mentor, 49 men have signed up, the largest group of entries in the last ten years...
There will be no seeding, Henry Lamar, fisticuff mentor, said last night. The fighters will be paired by chance in the eight weight classes, with the semifinals listed for 7:30 o'clock Thursday evening...
This afternoon in the Indoor Athletic Building the Bunny boxers will enter the ring with the Funsters in the semifinal round of the House boxing tourney. The winner fights Kirkland for the title on Thursday. Scheduled for next week is the University fisticuff tournament...