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With over 30 entries in the annual University boxing tournament, a number of close contests are in store for the final bouts on Friday evening. Three of last year's champions will defend their titles against strong challengers, many of whom were prominent in the 1921 tournament. One of the feature bouts will be that between Edward Eagan 1L. and Howard Townsend Jr. '23. Eagan was captain of the Yale boxing team in 1921 and gained the honor of representing the United States in the Olympic games at Antwerp. By winning his bout he won the amateur light heavy-weight...
...pound class F. X. Collins '22 will defend his last year's title, while his probable finalist opponent will be B. H. McCurdy '21, who has shown marked ability in his training work. The feature of the 125-pound class should be a bout between Harry Brenner '23 and G. G. Tunell Jr. 4E.S. Brenner was runner-up last year and lost to H. J. Freedman '23 only by a close margin. Isadore Shapiro '23 was a formidable runner-up in the 1921 bouts for the 135-pound title and he is making a string bid for the championship honors...
...first important home match of the season. Captain Burke Boyce '22, E. H. Lane '24, and E. L. Lane '24, will form the Crimson foil squad, while J. S. Barss '22 and J. K. Watson '23 will handle the duelling swords. Bertzberg, Liao, Chapman and Cook will defend the Green and White. The University men have so far been undefeated, their last match bein a 9-0 victory against Pennsylvania. Captains Hertzberg and Boyce have faced each other four times previously; thus far each has won twice, and tomorrow's match will be especially interesting as marking the climax...
...other races, the two invitation events, the Hunter mile and the Gardner B. Williams three-mile race are the ones of greatest interest. In the Hunter mile, Cutbill of the B. A. A. will defend the cup, which he won last year, against a fast field, which includes Shields, the Penn State runner; who has returned to college this year to complete his course; Ray, of the Illinois A. C., who has held the cup for several years, and who defeated Cutbill at the American Legion games in Boston last February; Connolly, the Georgetown track captain, who won the intercollegiate...
...opening line-up and this afternoon Coach Humphrey will use much the same forward line that started in the early season games. Beals is back at center and Burgess and Peirson fill the wing positions. Hammond and Captain Hodder will start in the defence berths, while Cantillon will defend the yearling goal...