Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...University champion will defend their titles this afternoon in the University Boxing Championship finals, the second such tournament since the war. The six events will take place at 4:45 p.m. Others competing include three 1949 House champion, and two freshman titlists...
Three men will gain their University boxing titles unopposed. Ruse Bath is the only entrant at 125 pounds, Charley Weiss the lone fighter at 130, and Fred Ravreby the only heavyweight. Weiss, boxing for Kirkland, won the College title in the House tournament, and Ravreby has already annexed the freshman heavyweight title...
There was a far smaller number of entrants than were expected, and considerably fewer than the number which competed in the House Championships two weeks ago. "It looks like the House tournament was the big one this year," commented Intramural Director Adolph W. Samborski...
...highlight of the tournament was the final heavyweight fight between Chief Bender (Kirkland) and Will Davis (Lowell), both varsity football tackles last fall. Davis won a 3 to 0 decision, after the played-out Bender had staged a series of crawls to the edge...
Dolph Samborski, director of intramurals who conducted the tournament, dubbed freshmen 155-pounder Tom Johnson, 175-pounder Bill Leeds, and 191-pounder George Sommaripa "uncrowned champions," since no opposition could be located for them...