Word: sparer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...John Roosevelt, of the Union club, who recently graduated from Oxford, and won the heavy-weight championship while there, and Mr. Rutgers Van Brunt, of the Kuickerbocker club. The latter gentleman is a graduate of Harvard, class of '80, and, while here, enjoyed an enviable reputation as a sparer. The match was made to decide the championship of the two universities. The referee declared the contest a draw, but, as Mr. Roosevelt was unable to come to time in the last round, the championship appears to belong to Harvard...
Baxter, '83, the noted sparer, broke his hand on Tuesday for the third time in a bout with one of the leading Boston professionals...
...Hyndman, 180 lbs., rowed last year, and Hobbs, 175 lbs., was substitute. Of the new men, Storrs is a prominent foot-ball rusher and a powerful anchor in class tugs ; Scott is a heavy-weight wrestler, and Cowles is a foot-ball rusher and heavy-weight sparer ; all have pulled in class races. The new men are rather light and a New Haven report says that the average of all will be 166-167 lbs., 5 or 6 pounds lighter than the crew of last year. As our own crew will not weigh much more at the time...
...officers of the association in order to gratify the general desire to see the finish of the match at once. But at the same time it must be apparent to all observers that it is not fair treatment of the winner of the first bout. Not one sparer in a hundred possesses the requisite endurance to do himself justice in a second match after he has just boxed three hotly contested rounds with an opponent of equal merit with himself. A notable instance of a similar nature occurred at a winter meeting two years ago, at which the winner...
...following item is from the Yale News; the italics are our own: D. N. Baxter, '83, Harvard's champion heavyweight sparer, will enter for the amateur championship at New York in February Out-runner Bangs, who won the light-weight wrestling at the winter meetings last year, and also the cup for general wrestling, will try conclusions with the other light-weight wrestlers of the country at the same time...