Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-four undergraduate and graduate students in the University will don boxing togs tomorrow night in Hemenway Gymnasium when the semi-final and final bouts of the annual University boxing tournament will be run off. The initial bouts of the evening will get under way at 8 o'clock...
...University malletmen defeated the Essex Troop 10 1-2 to 6 last night in the first round of the handicap tournament for teams handicapped between nine and 12 goals...
...listed in the national ranking, not seeded in the national tournament, a young man named William Aydelotte charged to the net in Manhattan last week and chopped the line drives of Julius Seligson into the corners. Each won two sets. In the second game of the fifth set Seligson twisted his ankle, limped, made an ugly face, sat down, got up, went on playing, limping. "Not that will aid a lot" punned the crowd, but critics noted that J. Seligson's game had slumped before his ankle, applauded Aydelotte as he went on to win the fifth...
...chances of the team with its influx of young blood will be against the French champions is another matter. The present titleholders are as young as their new antagonists and far more experienced, and they have beaten Tilden, still the greatest American player. Probably at least another year of tournament play will be needed to even up the odds. As for the old-timers, they have the memory of many a brilliant victory to make up for any lapse from prominence...
Over fifty men have signed up for the tournament. Among these are several boxers who fought their way up to the finals last year, which were held before an enthusiastic crowd of 600 students. R. E. Johnson '27 who has won the 175 pound crown for two years running, is back as a graduate school student to defend his title. Last year he scored the only knockout of the final bouts...