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...annual University boxing tournament, offering Harvard pugilists their only chance to exhibit their skill at the sport will begin tonight at 8 O'clock at the Hemenway ring. At present 35 men have signed up for the preliminaries; tonight's winners will meet a week from today to determine the titles...
...present results of past reforms is theirs now. Would it be ethical, practical, modest or sensible for them to say. "We don't graduate from college for two months more" and in view of this probable development cloister themselves with half a dozen Elizabethan poets while the Senate chambers ring with the banalities of an age that has done its best and lost...
With an expression of trepidation and constraint, Phil Scott, so-called heavyweight champion of England, got into a ring in Miami and sat down on a stool while his manager laced up his gloves. In the opposite corner Jack Sharkey, American contender, scowled ferociously and worked his gum-protector around in his mouth. It was a moment which had been preceded by weeks of intensive but not enthusiastic ballyhoo. Scott had looked very bad in training. Slow and clumsy, he had been upset several times by mediocre sparring partners. Sharkey, in fine condition, had been working as though every sparring...
Aimee Sample McPherson, Los Angeles soul saver, denied that she was going to marry Homer Alvan Rodeheaver, archangelic trombonist for Evangelist William Ashley ("Billy") Sunday, but admitted that he had given her a diamond ring...
...matter of fact. I don't think boxing is nearly as brutal as many people think. The trouble is that in the fighting ring whenever a man's lips start to bleed, his opponent's glove spreads the stain all over his body, with the result that he looks like a slaughter house. Then the women throw up their hands in horror and say that boxing is a brutal sport, even at that they seem to be getting over the feeling a little...