Word: tournament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orlando's 29th annual cockfighting tournament-though no word of it appeared in Florida newspapers last week. Florida is the only state in the union where cockfighting is legal (but the heavy betting that goes on at the pit is not, hence the secrecy...
...their bodies. They are fed special diets, which chicken men usually try to keep secret from each other. John Kehoe feeds his cocks such highfalutin food as cakes with French brandy, oysters, apples, sprouted oats, plain oats, eggs and flint corn. On the third day of the Orlando tournament last week (the fights go on for six hours a day and cost $7 to see), Kehoe's grey muffs lost their first two fights...
Blockhouse gloves were put away for a few days last night, as the inter-House boxing tournament ended in victory for Winthrop...
Coach Henry Lamar declared that the tournament aroused the "greatest upsurge of undergraduate interest in boxing, since the war," and predicted even more excitement in the bout for all-University championships next Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. Forty-four men, several of whom boxed in the House matches, will vie for top honors in the tournament which includes the top boxers in all graduate schools...
Four pairs of bridge experts, chosen by their play in College-wide competition, will bid and contract on a nation-wide level this afternoon as Harvard's entry in the annual, intercollegiate bridge tournament...