Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pound crew suffered one shift in the substitution at 3.3. Ganz '28 toe Maurice Hecksher '29 at the bow position. Coach C.S. Heard '25 made the replacement to lessen the poundage of the lightweight shell which had been, until yesterday, above the average allowed for 150 pound oarsmen...
Died. George (Kid) Lavigne, 58, night watchman at the Ford plant, onetime (1893-1899) lightweight boxing champion; in Detroit...
...bright green bathrobe with a golden harp between the shoulderblades, Jimmy McLarnin, lightweight, climbed into a roped square in Madison Square Garden. After one minute and forty-seven seconds of fighting he climbed out again onto the shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
...Lightweight (135) Sammy Mandell...
...four years prior to last year, the lightweight eights of the three universities met in annual races for the Prince Cup. Last spring, the Prince Cup was won by the University eight in a race at the American Henley at Philadelphia, in which Columbia, Yale, and Princeton were entered...