Word: tigers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Optimistic, but not in the least overconfident, are the words which express the feelings of Coach Wes Fesler and his Varsity cagers who are invading the Tiger's lair at Princeton tonight, hoping to repeat their "Once Over Lightly" (40 to 39) triumph of the previous meeting of the two teams in Cambridge...
Princeton had a very satisfactory visit with the Middles at Annapolis, the result of it all being a world's record in the 200 breaststroke, 20-yard course, for Captain Dick Hough. The Tiger leader did the ten laps in 2:19.8. Other results were a 123-point drive win by Navy's Gibson and a 1:33.2 backstroke victory by Princeton's Al Van de Weghe...
...Tiger Fox, a cagey Negro fighter, was 3-to-1 favorite. But Jimmy Grippo was not dismayed. In the last two years his hypnotic stare had never let him down. Before each fight he put burly, clumsy young Bettina through a ritual that was publicized as a hypnotic treatment; after each fight his protege emerged undefeated...
Before last week's bout. Manager Grippo performed his dressing-room hocus-pocus as usual. Then, for good measure, he went to Tiger Fox, put the Indian sign on him behind his back. Just before the opening gong, Hypnotist Grippo ambled over to the Negro's corner, tried to catch his eye, while 2,000 squealing Beaconites went wild in the gallery...
While Manager Grippo continued to stare long range, the Tiger, who had built up a creditable reputation on his crushing punches, patted Bettina with no more force than a pussy cat's paw. In the eighth round, just as the Beaconites were beginning to yawn, the magic worked. Bettina's left hooks floored Grippo's victim twice in quick succession and in the middle of the next round the Tiger, staring stupidly, staggered to a neutral corner...