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...Chicago. Young Stribling, sluggish Georgia heavyweight famed for his ferocity when fighting mediocre opponents and for his ability to cling to the arms, ribs and elbows of those whom he respects, amazed a crowd of 20,000 by poking several long lefts into the sallow face of Otto Von Porat, lanky Norwegian. Before the first round ended Stribling suddenly lashed a left hook against Von Porat's jaw. The Norwegian fell flat on his back, was counted...
...also made the sails for the other defenders.) Fortunately for the Yankee, she rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about $200,000 worth of trophies, guns, silver, sails and equipment owned by Otto H. Kahn, William G. Vanderbilt, Walter P. Chrysler and others. Their vessels were absent. The fire also destroyed the winter home of the Vanitie, one of the cup defenders...
...garrulous descendant of Lithuanian immigrants to Binghamton, N. Y., onetime U. S. sailor, climbed into a ring at the Yankee Stadium, Manhattan, wearing a U. S. flag over his shoulders. He was roundly booed, bit his glove in irritation. From the opposite corner, crouching awkwardly, came Max Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling, cool, Dempseyesque but inexperienced German...
...Siegfried Adolf Otto Schmeling of Germany: the Heavyweight Championship of the World on a foul by Jack Sharkey...
Reginald Henry Phelps of Southwick, Massachusetts, is announced as the holder of the Henry Russell Shaw Travelling Fellowship, the highest award to a member of the Senior Class at Harvard. At the same time it was announced that Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene of New York City would hold the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Studentship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Five high-ranking seniors were the recipients of Sheldon Travelling Fellowships for the coming year, and one travelling scholarship for the coming summer was awarded...