Word: zemurray
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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Featuring the boxing tournament was the final round of the last bout, when W. C. Brister 1GB and Samuel Zemurray 1GB, both clever boxers of the unlimited class, let go with everything they could muster. But with relentless punches, Zemurray battered his opponent, who had already had one bout that evening, to gain a well earned decision. The only technical knockout came when E. C. Ihrig 1L, who is also well-known as a wrestler, beat down B. C. McDonald...
Unlimited class: Zemurray defeated Brister, by decision
...fight tonight. In the 175-pound class will be William Smith '36, who won his bouts against both the Coast Guard and New Hampshire by knockouts. J. L. Kunen '36, who also knocked out his opponent in the New Hampshire meet will fight in the 125-pound class. Samuel Zemurray, Jr. 1GB, runner-up at Tulane in the National intercollegiate light-heavyweight match last year, will be among the fighters in the heavyweight division, as will W. C. Brister 1GB, captain of last year's boxing team and end on Dartmouth's football team...
...different from President Hart and the other Caribbean-ruling Bostonians is United Fruit's de facto head, Sam Zemurray. He is thin, bony, angular, with black domineering eyes and a hawk nose. Tropical-sun-tanned, he might be a Spaniard. He speaks English with a slight accent except when he is cursing, speaks Spanish with no accent at all. He is quiet in public, precisely dressed, has never been interviewed and likes to be left alone. His name appears neither in Who's Who nor in the New Orleans Social Register. His daughter Doris two years ago married...
When his three chief revolutionists arrived in Biloxi, Miss., on the Zemurray yacht one cold December night in 1910 on their way to Honduras, Samuel Zemurray went below and cooked a dinner for Manuel Bonilla, next President of Honduras. He left his coat over the shoulders of shivering General Bonilla. Said he: ''Hell Manuel, I've shot the roll on you. I might as well shoot the coat too." He is now shooting his roll on United Fruit and few expect him to lose...