Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promising welterweight called Eddie Ran. Ran, knocked down three times in the first round, kept on trading punches until the sixth when Petrolle, who does most of his work with his left, surprised him into unconsciousness with a right. Petrolle's victory assured him of being rematched with Lightweight Champion Tony Canzoneri-whom he defeated two years ago in a fight that had been intended to help Canzoneri tune up for the one in which he won his title...
This year a second Freshman team has been formed, which will open its season Friday afternoon against Browne and Nichols. The members of the 1935 seconds from the lightweight division up are: V. H. Kramer '35, E. E. Parmelee '35, H. G. Fernald '35, J. P. Coolidge '35, E. M. Kimball '35, L. T. Wing '35, Peirce Fuller '35, and H. A. Raff...
...forced to do this in long hand at home. Page 55, TIME, Nov. 23 in re Pringle's Roosevelt under paragraph Alice Lee-this is the most barefaced egregious manufactured history ever conceived. The writer saw this only appearance of T. R. as an aspirant for honors in lightweight boxing class. I knew both of his opponents but not him. I was a boxer and soon after a contestant and winner in 1881 and 1882. There is no dispute: the records show it, and I have two cups to show. Incidentally I sat perched atop a partition at this...
...York Times last week in which "Hoover-ball" and its players were described. The information was supplied by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, a regular "Hoover-baller." For the first time it was revealed that Hoover-ball is a game, specially invented, played with a special lightweight medicine ball (6 lb.) over a high net on tennis courts. Four such courts are marked out on the White House lawn, moved frequently to keep from wearing out the grass. Excerpts: "When the setup is just what it should be the game is rapid. Every player is constantly tense. ... A star member...
...junior at Harvard he first met pretty, prim Alice Lee of Chestnut Hill, Mass. His courtship like everything else he did was impetuous. He made the poor girl sit in the gymnasium balcony at Cambridge while he, stripped to the waist fought hard but vainly to win the college lightweight boxing championship. Fits of despair sent him moping to the woods whence he was retrieved by worried relatives. Theodore and Alice were married in Brookline four months after his graduation (Oct. 27, 1880). They traveled abroad. He got into politics, went to Albany. On Feb. 12, 1884 was born their...