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...Langford, "Boston Tar Baby," has won a championship after 20 years in the ring. It's not much of a title for one who might have been champion of the world, but they say old Tham is pleased. He knocked out Kid Savage in one round and took from him the championship of Mexico...
Since 1902 Langford has been known and respected by the followers of the prize ring. In better days he was so well known and so highly respected that none of the existing champions could be inveigled into the ring with him. Tommy Burns, Jack Johnson, Jess Willard?none of them would fight him after they acquired their titles. Accordingly Sam dug along fighting second raters for small money. Joe Jeanette, also a Negro, was his usual opponent. They fought more than 20 battles, Langford winning the majority. The one man in the world that Langford did not care to meet...
...Langford is the last bridge between the old school champions and the new. He is a little man. In his time heavyweight champions were not the giant race that rules the ring today. Jim Corbett weighed 184; Bob Fitzsimmons, 172; Tom Sharkey, 180; Peter Maher, 178. Jeffries was the only two hundred pounder among the champions of 30 years ago. Of the present group in prominence among the heavyweights, Dempsey stands 6 feet 1 inch and weighs 190. Harry Wills, Negro champion, rises to 6 feet 3 and weighs 215. Luis Firpo measures 6 feet 2 and weighs 225. Floyd...
Dean Edgell, who thus assumes a position which has been vacant since the death of Dean H. Langford Warren in 1917, is one of the youngest men ever chosen to preside over a Harvard faculty. His appointment is interesting also in that he is not an architect himself, but a teacher of the history of art. He is, however, the author, with Flake Kimball, of "A History of Architecture", and it is expected that he will give courses on this subject as dean of the School...
Those announced for the Brown game are: Referee, W. S. Langford of Trinity; Umpire, Hugh McGraf of Boston College; Field-Judge, W. S. Kennel of Tufts; Linesman, D. E. Sullivan of Syracuse...