Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gene Tunney, former champion of the A. E. F., emerged from the smoke of a battle in Madison Square Garden holding Harry Greb's light-heavyweight championship of the world. But the smoke had hardly cleared when clouds of official disapproval rose to blur the brilliance of his honors. Not only did the metropolitan papers cast bitter reflections on the verdict of Judges Charles E. Miles, Charles Meighan and Referee Patsy Haley, but William Muldoon himself, Chairman of the State Athletic Commission, declared the decision "unjustifiable". He stated, however, that the verdict was official and that the State Commission...
...Madison Square Garden was jammed for the battle, which went the full fifteen rounds without the suggestion of a knockout. Tunney carried the thumping to his opponent's ribs and body until they were a mass of fevered blotches. Greb, who resides in Pittsburgh, employed his traditional plunging roughness and was warned repeatedly for butting Tunney with his head. Tunney took the decision on points...
George Hopkins Johnson, of Madison...
...Reverend Henry Sloanc Coffin D. D. pastor of the Madison Avenue Church of New York city and professor of Practical Theology at the Union Theological Seminary, will conduct the services in Appleton Chapel at 11 o'clock tomorrow morning Officers of the University will enter at the north door. Students will enter at the south door unless accompanied by friends, in which case they will use the west entrance...
...Rodeo at Madison Square Garden was so successful that Tex Rickard is planning to promote other sports of the great and open West. Having taught New Yorkers how to throw more than one kind of bull, he intends to demonstrate to them the other pastimes that have made the West what it is. A genial Kansan hearing of this, sent in to suggest a good old-fashioned tar and feathering. This, though admittedly excellent fun, was vetoed as being unsportsmanlike. Then a harvesting bee was proposed, but when Tex found out that harvesters were immense machines, he decided that...