Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...upsets occurred in the third round of the University tennis tournament yesterday afternoon. Captain J. F. W. Whitbeck '27, of the University team, present title holder, and favorite to win this year's contest, won his match by a decisive score...
...Hill '30, who is expected to give the other seeded players stiff competition, has not yet played his third round match...
Undoubtedly many see in college merely a pleasant round of social and sporting events to the exclusion of learning but the suggested cures themselves show taints of evil. Now that the cry is against undergraduate tendency to specialization, Mr. Wells will not find unanimous applause for the graduate school system he would build in its stead. To end intercollegiate athletics would certainly keep the serious as well as the light-minded from college. A school can suffer from an overdose of learning just as surely as from too highly emphasized athletics. There is more than one way to kill either...
...Then an amazing thing happened. Tunney held his terrible arms. The referee parted their shoulders and Tunney, with a right and left to the head, backed Dempsey against the ropes, pounded his face, made him shelter himself with wrapping elbows. The gong rang for the end of the first round. A gentleman who sat between Peggy Hopkins Joyce and Tex Rickard in an aisle by the ring put down his flask and stretched himself. "Tunney's got it, . . ." he said...
...Dempsey kept weaving in, pawing at Tunney with fierce, ineffective blows; how people spread newspapers over their knees and passed bottles from hand to hand; how Tunney outboxed Dempsey, poked him off with wary blows, closed his left eye, cut his cheek, made his nose bleed. In the last round, with a tremendous effort, Dempsey fired his weariness into a rally and swung a right for Tunney's jaw. If that blow had connected the Dempsey-Tunney fight would have been remembered as the most sensational ten-round bout ever fought. Tunney ducked. Thirty seconds later...