Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Jack Johnson, oldtime Negro boxer, onetime (1908-15) heavyweight champion of the world, has been conducting a dance band at New Haven, Conn. Last week he asked the city attorney to help collect his back wages from the music hall management. The city attorney declined, said he was no bill collector...
...Freshman prospects are also rather encouraging. Although in the 115 and heavyweight classes there is but one man for each, several tricky and fast grapplers have appeared in the middle weights. P.O. Johnson '33, is one of the more promising members of the 125 pound class, having had a great deal of former experience...
...Annual sophomore-freshman tussle supposed to replace inter-class fights. Divided into lightweight, middleweight, heavyweight classes, three bouts are held. Object: to wrest a heavy stick, grasped at each end, from one's opponent. This year sophomores won two of the three matches...
...fall crew season, which ended two weeks ago with a aeries recited a lack of heavyweight University material, stork oars in particular; excellent 150-pound material; and great potentialities in the Freshman squad...
...domestic accounts of the Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean cruise and out upon the dock stepped Vice-Chamberlain & Mrs. Hayes with their...