Word: gashing
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...matching him not against Champion Steele but against the No.1 U. S. challenger, San Francisco's Fred Apostoli, Mike Jacobs left the way clear for another championship bout. Boxer Apostoli won half of the first eight rounds. In the ninth a solid left hook opened a long gash over Thil's right eye. By the next round so much blood was running down Thil's face and trickling through the hair on his chest that Referee Arthur Donovan stepped in, gave Apostoli Thil's title on a technical knockout...
...coward, Policeman Kelly shoved his gun into its holster and grabbed the two blackamoors by their belts. Something struck him-a knife, he thought-jab, jab, jab, seven times in the left side. Something cut gash after gash in his face. He staggered outside, managed to make it around the corner to the police station...
...does, with a cool, poised cruelty that turned Brad-dock's aggressiveness into a painful demonstration of his ability to absorb a beating. By the end of the sixth round Braddock's eyes were nearly closed, his nose was smeared off line, blood dripped from a long gash on his upper lip and he knew, as he said later, that unless he could land a lucky punch, the end of his career as champion was at hand...
Then another son of Finn Mac Cool's leaped into her mouth, and when he had passed into her chest (this is the legend's anatomy, not mine) he bethought him of his knife. With it, he made a gash in the monster's side which killed her. " 'Twas a wonderful slaughter," says the tale, putting the statement, for modesty's sake, in parentheses...
...practice Wednesday, right fielder Jim Sullivan chipped a bone in his thumb, catching a line drive, and it is doubtful if he will be ready for action today. Although a spike gash in his heel, incurred yesterday, required three stitches, Art Johns is expected to play this afternoon against the Ithacans...