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...instructs each pair in catches, falls and positions, illustrating the meaning by object lessons and making the men apply his teaching. While Mr. Lathrop is instructing one pair, the others practise what they have previously been told. The part of the hour thus spent in instruction is rather tame, but the last half is spent in regular bouts, and proves much more interesting to those looking on. Two men wrestle before Mr. Lathrop and the class until one or the other is fairly thrown, when another pair take their place. The class was quite large at first, but a number...
Clement of Harvard and Whitney of Technology met in the first bout of the feather-weight sparring. The first round was tame; Clement had the advantage. The second and third rounds were more lively; in these Clement easily had the advantage, and the bout was awarded...