Word: jabbing
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...ball game in progress between two American Legion teams from Topeka and Leavenworth. Guards and most prisoners were watching the game attentively, for the score was 2 to 2 in the fifth inning. Suddenly Warden Prather felt a wire noose slip around his neck, a pistol barrel jab into his back...
...Corbett, flat-nosed, dark-haired, stocky, confident because he had beaten Fields once when the championship was not at stake, started the fight with a left to the chin that backed Fields against the ropes. Then for five rounds he executed a strategic retreat, peppering Fields with a right jab and a left cross when the champion, forcing the fight as a champion should, charged in with his head low, swinging both hands. The referee, Lieutenant Jack Kennedy, U. S. N., gave Corbett every round up to the sixth when Corbett failed to back away from a right...
Harvard's footballers last year did something that no others did. Before each game some of them would assemble with their Captain William Barry Wood Jr. and jab sharp needles into their thumbs or earlobes. Drops of crimson Harvard blood were smeared on slides. During the game and afterwards, the same thing would happen. Most Harvardmen knew that Captain Wood, quarterback. Phi Beta Kappa, student council president, first marshal of the Class of 1932, was plugging away at biochemistry, studying for medical school, working a good part of his time in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory. He wrote a thesis...
...Pennsylvania State football team the night Loughran was knocked out by Jack Sharkey, climbed into the ring at Madison Square Garden where Loughran was beaten last month by King Levinsky (see below). Loughran, the favorite, came out cautiously, trying to push Hamas away with the left jab which was once the fast est punch possessed by any U. S. heavy weight. Hamas, unskilled but savage, won the first round by ignoring Loughran's left jab and punishing his body. His first punch in the second round, on Loughran's mouth, really ended the fight. Loughran got up after...
...jump out of the ring headfirst. His seconds persuaded him to resume the fight. For the next eleven rounds Sharkey adopted the brilliantly aggressive style which he uses when he is confident of winning, Carnera, devoid of aplomb, countered Sharkey's punches with a dubious, weak-wristed left jab. After the exciting 15th round, in which, again, he was nearly knocked out, Carnera's pleasure in the fact that the fight was over outweighed his disappointment at losing. He shook hands vigorously, consoled his manager, William Duffy, who was recently cataloged as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies...