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...University Instrumental Clubs trace their origin to the foundation of the Banjo Club in 1886, and of the Guitar and Mandolin Club in the following year. This latter organization was coached by L. T. Romero, an accomplished Spanish guitarist. He coached until 1890, when he was succeeded by G. L. Lansing, who remained as coach of both organizations until 1908, when the present coach, William Rice assumed the position...
...forgotten. Will one of these sidling, loquacious ones ever be a huge brown Argentine with a mane like a privet hedge? Luis Angel Firpo, will he ever tell unbelievers how he was "cheated" out of the boxing crown of South America? Last week, he lost that crown. One Quintin Romero, Chilean, has long thumped his tom-tom, shouted that he would have Luis' blood. The South American Boxing Commission heeded his beatings, his shoutings. Holding that the Wild Bull of the Pampas had not answered within a reasonable time this Chile-bean's challenge, they took away...
...Quentin Romero, his face a bloody smear...
...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...
...Romero had been battered mercilessly through four of the six rounds, however, and when he received the terrific right to the jaw and the flailing right back of the ear that ended the fight, his left eye was closed with a swelling that extended half way up his forehead and his lips were bleeding profusely. He had been knocked down three times and through a good part of the bout went careening drunkenly around the ring taking almost everything Johnson had to give...