Word: round
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-one bouts will be held in the Hemenway gymnasium at 4 o'clock this afternoon in the preliminary rounds of the annual University boxing tournament. The remaining rounds of the tournament will be held on Wednesday evening. In all there are 44 entries in the tournament. Three will be no preliminaries in the 125-pound, 175-pound, or heavy-weight classes but due to the large number of entries in the other four classes, the preliminaries will consist of seven first-round and 14 second-round bouts...
...First Round...
...their way to the Allied capitals and they will be published shortly. Reports from Angora state, however, that the Turks will ask for the settlement of the financial clauses by conversations outside the scope of the Treaty, thus facilitating an early peace. The Turks have, apparently, come round to the British point of view with regard to Mosul. They suggest that the Mosul question be settled amicably between Turkey and Great Britain within one year...
...hairy, blood-stained form of Luis Angel Firpo, Argentine heavyweight boxer, pounded its blundering way to a knockout over Bill Brennan in the twelfth round of a scheduled fifteen round fight at Madison Square Garden. Showing nothing but courage and a vicious right, Firpo battered through the superior defense of the veteran to win by assault rather than strategy...
...fight began, it was apparent that the Argentine artillery would bother Brennan. Wherever Firpo's right landed the surrounding territory shuddered. In the fifth round the American launched a counter attack which opened a deep gash over Firpo's right eye. And for the rest of the fight the South American was streaked in heavy crimson. A blow to the base of the skull in the twelfth finally sent Brennan to rest at Firpo's feet...