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...minor (perhaps it may soon be major) sport was welcomed into the University last night by the thousand students who packed the Living Room of the Union. The promotion of any addition to our already wide field of extra-curriculum activities requires both perseverance and a careful sizing up of opportunities. And to have done this in so popular a way as to attract more spectators, than have witnessed any other intercollegiate contest proves both the ability of the managers and the existence of a good opening for this new sport...
This is the first Boxing Championship that has been held by the University for twenty-three years. The winners will be entitled to call themselves the University Boxing Champions in their respective classes. In aiding the sport here at the University, the B. A. A. has generously offered the use of its ring and the services of its officials. In addition to these preparations, a dressing room has been arranged in the basement of the Union...
...spectators will be required to show their Union membership cards or else special tickets signed by the boxing manager. In the interest of pure sport the management requests that any applause which may be forthcoming will not turn into "rowdyism" or "muckerism...
...Robinson '16 will act as announcer and will introduce John L. Sullivan, who will give a short talk on the sport...
Many prominent men in the world of sport are to be present, among these already having accepted the invitation of the committee being Percy D. Haughton '99, Francis Ouimet, John L. Sullivan, and George Wright...