Word: bouts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matches were regarded by U. S. swordsmen as second only in importance to the Olympics, were fought as usual with foil, epee and sabre, but the scoring system was slightly different from previous years. Each team put up four men in each event, each event to comprise 16 bouts. Each bout won counted two points to the winning team. Ties in epee counted a point apiece. Team with the highest total in the three weapons won the trophy. Foil. Two of the four U. S. foilsmen are U. S. champions. None of the four Britons is national champion. Nevertheless, outstanding...
...Miss Helene Mayer and Miss Marion Lloyd in the final bout," said the announcer at the national women's fencing championship last week. The people in the boxes of the grand ballroom at the American Woman's Association Clubhouse in Manhattan smiled understandingly. They knew that the announcement was technically incorrect-a defeat for Miss Mayer would mean a fence-off-but they knew also that a defeat for Miss Mayer was highly improbable. A 23-year-old from Offenbach-am-Main, Germany, she was indisputably the best woman fencer in the world from 1927 to 1932, when...
Said Mr. Nutt: "Not a word was said ,bout the repurchase of the bonds at the ime of the original transaction. . . ." Next day Messrs. Nutt...
...eating tiger out of a hole in the ground; catching a leopard in a snare. Other animals which appear in Wild Cargo are flying foxes, water buffalo, mouse-deer, gibbons, orangutans, tapirs. Most appealing are a white Rhesus monkey and a honey bear engaged in a calm, incompetent wrestling bout; most alarming, the python who slithers forlornly through Wild Cargo, strangling a black panther, frightening a mouse-deer, biting Frank Buck. The python ends in a cage as does an Indian rhinoceros whose capture, when he has eluded Buck's wire corral and stumbled foolishly into a water hole...
...over their opponents in the 145-pound and unlimited classes. In the lighter class, Clarke who gained his training at Stanford, soon proved too experienced for his younger opponent William G. Davis '37. Cameron, formerly of the West Virginia team, disposed of Robert R. Levin 2M in a fast bout...