Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crass outsider did not comprehend this Latin irony, the Cambridge Union was cosily content. Soon with even heavier irony a Cambridge lightweight rose to defend Chicago. Small, spindly Debater Robert Egerton Swartwout (he weighs 105 Ib.) boomed out in an amazing bass voice. The same voice last year barked the Cambridge crew to victory over Oxford (TIME, April 21, 1930). Swartwout was Cambridge's first U. S. coxswain. Son of Manhattan Architect Egerton Swartwout, he went to Cambridge (Trinity College) seven years ago, became a wit, contributed to Punch. Also he developed the ironic humor that is the pride...
Races between the University and Freshman lightweight boats, slated for last Saturday, were called off on account of the weather, but the former, handicapped by gaps in the regular seatings, contended for seven minutes over sloppy water of the upper basin. Class coach Ed Brown announced last night that he had definitely picked his three class boats, which are to race this Wednesday to determine which shell would be selected to meet the Eli classmen...
...some time, Tony Canzoneri, the frog-faced Brooklyn fighter who won the lightweight championship of the world from Al Singer, has been supposed to be washed out. Grounds for this belief: Canzoneri has dodged a return match with Billy Petrolic of Fargo, N. Dak., who gave Canzoneri a good pre-championship drubbing. He was also supposed to be afraid of Jackie Berg, holder of the junior welterweight title, a Britisher noted for his courage, his windmill style, his ability to block punches with his chin. In Chicago last week, Berg and Canzoneri climbed into a ring, shook hands and started...
...first 150-pound boat, racing the seconds over the Henley distance the same afternoon, led the junior crew over the finish by well over three lengths. The third lightweight eight paced the other two boats as far as the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge, and, rowing a consequently higher stroke, was edging the second boat at the end of the three-quarter mile course...
Outstanding among the lightweight contestants was Morris Gamm 1L, former Pennsylvania wrestler, who won both the 118 and 126-pound divisions. Considerably fatigued by his hard bout with David Weld '34, this year's Freshman New England Intercollegiate champion, Gamm in his second contest barely succeeded in defeating Harold Frankel '34 on a time advantage of less than 50 seconds...