Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...games fights seen in a Harvard ring was demonstrated by Dave Gardner, rocky heavyweight who made his debut of the season to replace Ham Turner. There was wild, unskilled swinging by both Gardner and Weed, with the Eli on the offensive. Gardner continually took Weed's long-range offerings undefended, against the ropes and in the corners a large part of the time...
During the 26 years that Richard Wagner brooded over The Ring of the Nibelung, no one character caused him greater anguish than his heroine Brünnhilde. Time & again he flung down his pen and paced the floor. He recalled in his autobiography that once "my courage failed me completely, for I could not help asking myself whether the singer had yet been born who was capable of vitalizing this heroic female figure."* The stiffest test in all grand opera is the Brünnhilde of Götterdämmerung. That rôle made big news in Manhattan...
From his new restaurant, in which the current pastime for reckless Manhattan drunks is urging the waiter to ask the proprietor to throw them out, Jack Dempsey last week crossed Eighth Avenue, entered Madison Square Garden, clambered into the ring and nodded morosely to the crowd. Into the ring immediately behind him climbed the two muscular lightweights whose fight the crowd had paid to see: scarred Sammy Fuller of Boston, perennial stumbling block for lightweight contenders, and chipper young Lou Ambers who had nothing but a purse to gain by winning, stood to lose a chance at Barney Ross...
...first round, Fuller landed short vicious lefts to Ambers' head. The second round was even. For the next twelve, Ambers drove his opponent around the ring, punching him as often as stamina would permit. In the 15th, with the decision safely won, the same bravado that caused him to sign for the fight in the first place made Ambers open up in an effort to effect a knockout. It nearly cost him the fight when Fuller's right landed on the point of his jaw and a hard left opened a cut on his eye. When the bell...
...successful it may signify the beginning of an athletic renaissance. In any event, if doughnuts for breakfast have been substituted for hockey rinks we should not look the gift horse in the face. Appreciation and proper competitive spirit demand that a Cambridge man throw his hat into the doughnut ring...