Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present only Harvard and Yale have 150-pound teams, so it is impossible to have a full intercollegiate schedule. In Harvard, this lightweight team is now part of the intramural program, but next year it is expected that it will become part of the intercollegiate program, when enough other colleges form 150-pound teams...
...Professional Golfers' Association championship, at Fresh Meadow Country Club, L. I., sinking a 12-ft. putt on the 36th hole against Gene Sarazen. ¶ Jimmy McLarnin, 140-lb. Pacific Coast Irishman: a fight at the Yankee Stadium, New York, from Al Singer, who won the world's lightweight championship two months ago (TIME, July 28) from battered Sammy Mandell; by a knockout; after 2 min. 21 sec. of the third round. McLarnin won no title because of the differences in weight...
Holder of no title but conceded by some critics to be the best boxer in the modern prizering, Chocolate's idea was to begin a new campaign by beating Berg, a junior welterweight, then Al Singer, lightweight champion, and so work down to his own featherweight class. Looking thoughtful and serious, he jabbed Berg with sewing-machine lefts and crossed him with hard right-hand punches to the jaw. The cockney came in milling and tied him up, battered at his ribs in the clinches without getting past his countering elbows. Whenever Chocolate was free to box he scored...
Mandell v. Singer. Because he has been growing too heavy for his class, Sammy Mandell, lightweight champion of the world since 1926, trained in sweaters under the July sun, dried out in steam baths. On the morning of his fight with Challenger Al Singer, last week in The Bronx, he weighed himself secretly, found he was 136 Ib. instead of 135 lb., put on thick clothes and ran around the Yankee Stadium until the pound came off. That evening, pallid and drawn, he came out of his corner cautiously to meet Singer, sturdy Bronx Semite. After a moment of tentative...
...second University 150-pound crew and the first Freshman lightweight boat raced to a dead heat over the Henley distance in the Basin yesterday afternoon in the annual invitation regatta. In the same race the third University lightweights defeated the second 1933 150-pounders by a half-length...