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Playing without the services of Captain Pease and giant Guard Raphael, Columbia downed Williams. Kaplan, Pease's understudy, did well as a field general, ran the team intelligently, tallied two touchdowns. Score: Columbia 26, Williams 0. On a field better suited to the activities of ducks than to the less web-footed endeavors of spike-shod ball-bearers, a muddy team from Pittsburgh beat a muddy team from Carnegie Tech...
...Manhattan. Louis ("Kid") Kaplan, Featherweight Champion of the World, offered a merciless display of fistic pyrotechnics upon the body of an ron-jawed, rock-gutted youth from New Orleans, one William Kennedy. For twelve rounds Kennedy kept coming in, jerking his head from side to side under the champion's sharpshooting, his red eyes glazed and almost sightless under the fire of the electric torches; kept coming in, while Kaplan, irritated by his resistance, clubbed remorseless blows to the body, sent jabs flickering to his bloody mouth: kept coming in. . . At the end of the fight, Kennedy was still...
...Pound--G. M. Ferguson '26, Hardy Hoover '26, Herbert Kaplan '26, C. G. Page...
...sorry for the battered little man, had been watching for the towel. As it struck, he stepped between the fighters. Friends rushed to the little man - he was a Featherweight Danny Kramer of Philadelphia- and helped him to his corner, beaten. The human whirlwind- he was Featherweight Louis ("Kid") Kaplan of Meriden, Conn.-stood panting but jubilant while they raised his right hand aloft and declared that, by a technical knockout, he was winner, he was world's featherweight champion...
...final elimination tournament begun some months ago by the New York State Athletic Commission to determine a successor to Johny Dundee,* former titleholder, who had been forced (TIME Sept. 1) to admit he could no longer scale his weight down to 126-lb. maximum allowed for featherweights. Kaplan hit his way to victory in the ninth of 15 scheduled rounds, winning every round...