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...from Los Angeles to Manhattan went blind Sam Langford, onetime great Negro fighter. Boxing fans, led by one Hype Igoe, boxing authority for The New York World, had subscribed to bring Sam east for an eye operation which one Dr. James W. Smith promised to perform out of sheer admiration...
...Milton formerly given by Professor J. L. Lowes G '03. Professor M. O. Hudson L '10 will give Government 23, "Selected Cases in International Law" as a half-course to meet on Mondays from 4 to 6. Education B2hf, "Educational Psychology," will be given by Mr. C. H. Langford...
...builder of Leland Stanford University at California, has made it possible for the University to give two of the five prizes. M. I. T. will give two and the Architectural Club will give the fifth. The University prizes will be named in honor of the late Dean H. Langford Warren L.'02 and the late Charles Eliot '82. The prizes of M. I. T. will be known as the Despradelle and the Ware prizes...
Harry Wills, Negro fighter, who has knocked out Sam Langford, Sam McVey, Fred Fulton: " I'm black all right, but I've lived a lot whiter than the majority of white fighters now in the ring. No one can deny that I've fought every one selected for me. I don't play the cabarets and I've never been in court on any charge, but what has it got me ? One thing you can be sure of. If I were champion tomorrow, I'd be just as unassuming and peaceful...
Black boxers have seized the Cuban fancy. Rumored (not without reason) : that Jack Johnson (L'il Artha), sometime heavyweight champion of the world, is matched to meet Sam Langford (Boston Tar Baby), champion of Mexico and Spain, in the Stadium Marina, Havana...