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...this rallying cry Scotch M. P.'s of the "Clydeside Group"? hurled themselves upon the Sergeant-at-Arms' parliamentary posse. Began a serious fist fight...
...John's College lacrosse team, U. S. Intercollegiate Association champions : the North American championship, beating a team of Canadian All-Stars, by a total of 5 goals to 3 in a two-game series. The second game, at Baltimore, won by Canada, 1 to 0, was interrupted by a fist fight between a St. John's defense man and an All-Star forward, in which both teams and 200 spectators participated. Police restored order. Later, a violent thunder storm drenched field, players, 8,000 spectators...
...Primo Camera, monstrous Italian heavyweight: a bout at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn; by knocking out one Pat Redmond, unknown and incapable Irishman, in the first round. Both giants moved ponderously about the ring. Camera pushing his great fist, Redmond pawing helplessly for less than a minute; then Camera upset his opponent with a well-aimed right to the jaw. Redmond arose unsteadily at the count of eight, went down and out a minute later under a curving left hook that literally wrapped about his jaw and chin. ¶ Aubrey Boomer. British pro for the St. Cloud Club, near Paris: the French...
...seems obvious, after a disinterested examination of the facts involved that if Pullman Conductor Edward English had used a little tact and common sense and dealt with the porter as though he was a human being and not struck him in the face with his fist after questioning him which provoked the fight, the whole unhappy affair could have been avoided. A. PHILIP RANDOLPH...
...less than probable. "The Prelude", which Professor Herford takes as his source of information for the life of the poet is, according to Mr. Read, "a deliberate mask. It is an idealisation of the poet's life, not the reality. To show what the reality was--that is my fist purpose...