Word: tournaments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kirk Douglas, 32, trained for a month and a half, six days a week, under the knowing eye of "Mushy" Callahan, onetime world's junior welterweight champion. Until then, the nearest Douglas had ever come to boxing was skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that the double who was hired to do his fight scenes never got before the camera...
...downtown Seattle, tickets for the big game were selling for $40 on the black market. When 12,000 people jammed into the University of Washington's Pavilion ast week, they expected to see fireworks. It was the big show of 1949's basketball season, the N.C.A.A. tournament final beween powerful Kentucky and the aggravating, defense-minded Oklahoma Aggies. What the crowd saw was a duel in coaching strategy with overtones of a championship chess match. Kentucky, which specializes in brisk, aggressive basketball, deliberately slowed down to the Aggies' own "slow death" pace. So artis-ically didx Kentucky...
Their first meet is against North Carolina on Tuesday. The men from Chapel Hill shut out Harvard last year, 27 to 0, and still claim as their number one man Harrie Ward, winner of the North-South open tournament...
Tomorrow fencing will supervise the opee competition, the final event in the tournament. Top performers will probably again be Ode, Pierce, and Chase...
Adams House got an early lead in the tournament Monday when its ex-varsity player, Pierce, beat Larry Zeitlin of Kirkland House to break a tie and to give Adams four points...