Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scheduled 20-round fight in Vienna between handsome Georges Carpentier, French heavyweight pugilist, and Arthur Townley, British light heavyweight champ, proved to be a dull, short, sharp affair...
After the gong, Carpentier closed with his opponent; there was some fierce pumelling in which Townley suffered. Just before the end of the round Townley gave Carpentier the opening for which he had been waiting. Like a meteor in the night, the Frenchman's right shot out to the Englishman's jaw and the gong left him prone...
...second round was short. Townley seemed groggy. Carpentier got in another of his famed rights, and the Englishman was horizontal for four seconds. As soon as he stood upon his soles the Frenchman with another vicious right, forced him to lie down again for eight seconds. Back came Townley for more, tried to clinch in order to avoid defeat, and then- with the steely precision of a piston rod Georges' right crashed to the solar plexus anglicus and Townley was counted out. "Foul!" shrieked 15,000 Viennese. But the Vienna Boxing Association said...
...Songs and Ballads of the Maine Lumberjacks", collected and edited by Roland Palmer Gray of Elmira College, will be published within a week or so by the University Press. Round the camp fires and in the log cabins deep in the Maine Woods, the lumberjacks have for many decades composed and sung a rude poetry celebrating their hazardous life with its trials and its compensations. For the student of poetic orgins and of American life as well as the general reader, these poems are even more interesting than the famous old ballads handed down from our English ancestors. The typography...
...University polo team will leave tonight for New York, where it will engage the Princeton four tomorrow afternoon in the second round of the outdoor Intercollegiates at Fort Hamilton, Long Island. Harvard blanked Virginia Military Institute in the first round 11 to 0 last Wednesday, while the Tigers eliminated Norwich 12 to 2 on Thursday...