Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cried Lightweight Glass as he doubled up one fist, grabbed Middleweight Wheeler by the arm. A wary secretary leaped between them; Senators rushed up to pacify. Mr. Glass, shouting for battle, was thrust into the cloakroom. . . . The tumult died gradually; the Senate went back to business. Both of these thwarted fisticuffers were Democrats...
Benny Leonard, onetime undefeated lightweight champion of the world: "Of course, I don't fight any more. I've made lots of money and own real estate. Besides, I promised my mother I would never enter the ring again. And in the Sept. 4 issue of Collier's, I okayed an interview telling all about my most thrilling fights and how I finally came through all 200 of them with my eyes and ears normal. But I was lucky and skillful and don't think much of boxing as a manly art. Said I, 'Unless...
...behooved them to purvey their battered advocate to his cor ner. In the ninth round Kaplan knocked him down three times, and once more in the tenth. The referee, seeing that Garcia was al ready rising on one knee to go in search of further injury, stopped the bout. Lightweight. When Benjamin Leonard, nonpareil of lightweights, retired from the ring at the top of his hour, the successor to his crown proved ultimately to be Rocky Kansas, of Buffalo. This Kansas, whose real name was left behind in some alley of his white boyhood, is a scarred workman, 35 years...
Sturtevant rowed on his Freshman lightweight eight, and last year was at 2 on the University 150-pound eight. This spring he did not row against Yale, but was again at 2 in the Henley race last Monday...
...first event of the week-end regatta will take place at 5.30 o'clock this afternoon when the University 150-pound crew meets the M. I. T. lightweight oarsmen. The race comes as the vanguard of the three feature contests tomorrow afternoon between the regular, second, and Freshman representatives of the University, Pennsylvania...