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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week after months of milling & mauling in qualifying tournaments sponsored by the U. S. Army, the National Amateur Athletic Union, the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Chicago Tribune, 16 top-notch amateur boxers trooped into the Chicago Stadium to fight it out for the eight National Golden Gloves titles. Since a title automatically carried with it a place on the U. S. Olympic boxing team, 19,000 fight fans paid $33,000 to see these fisticuffs. Though they witnessed no knockouts, they received their money's worth, watching: ¶ The 118-lb. championship match which Jackie Wilson...
This was John Reed of Portland, Oregon, of the Harvard class of 1910. The John Reed who wrote youthful poetry for the Harvard Monthly and the Advocate, who led the cheering in the Stadium, member of Hasty Pudding and Ibis of the Lampoon. The same John Reed wrote the words to the football song "Score," and created the Paterson strike pageant. The same Reed chummed with the romantic Villa in Mexico and, not much later, was under indictment in a half-score of sedition cases for defending the Russion Revolution in this country. He changed tremendously in the decade...
Second among the outstanding performers for the Freshmen is their captain, Al Hanlon, a crack middle distance man. Al's home stretch sprints have been one of the most beautiful pieces of track work seen in the Stadium this year. Usually off the last corner last, Hanlon has been consistent in overcoming his adversaries leads to come home a winner. He will be another factor next year when he puts on a Varsity jersey...
...this pair George Gardner. The hand he got in the Stadium last Saturday for his fifty piece of running in the 3000-meters was surpassed only by the runner who came in last in the same race five minutes after the announcements were...
...same time it was announced by William J. Bingham '16, Chairman of the Olympic committee, that Randall's Island Stadium, would be the spot for the Olympic finals trails, that everyone is shooting for, and that the dates had been moved up a day to Saturday and Sunday, July 10 and 11. It is expected to be about the fastest track in the country when it is finally completed...