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...pound class--Benjamin Eisner 2L defeated E. S. Dennis '28 by knockout...
...finals last year, which were held before an enthusiastic crowd of 600 students. R. E. Johnson '27 who has won the 175 pound crown for two years running, is back as a graduate school student to defend his title. Last year he scored the only knockout of the final bouts...
Last spring the boxing tournament was the most popular and most successful in many years. Of the 38 men entered, 14 reached the finals, in which seven University ring champions were crowned. The final battles at Hemenway drew a crowd of 600 students. There was only one knockout during the evening's bouts, that scored by R. E. Johnson '27 over Ira Markwett '28 in the initial round of the 175 pound final. The feature bout, however, was in the 145 pound class, where G. N. Burns '29 outpointed E. A. Sachs '28, displaying better condition and a superior ability...
...reference to the productions, Rodemich remarked that even when the orchestra was performing, they were "working up" the show. "Sometimes" we think a band number will be a knockout, it proves not to be: we shift things around, and cut parts out, until we finally manage to please the public. What all audiences want is pep: they like the soatimental stuff, but snappy rhythm is always more successful," he concluded...
There is always a blackamoor in the pugilistic woodpile. Recently Harry Wills, for many years dark menace to the supremacy of two-fisted whites, was dismissed from the woodpile by a knockout at the hand of Paolino Uzcudun. The place of Mr. Wills was last week acquired by George Godfrey, 228½-pound blackamoor actor* of Leiperville, Pa. Mr. Godfrey disposed of Monte Munn, onetime Nebraska legislator, onetime wrestler, whose alma, mater is the University of Nebraska. Messrs. Godfrey & Munn were scheduled to fight twelve rounds. The referee checked the proceedings in the fourth, out of sympathy for Mr. Munn...