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Show BOXER -WINS TITLE IN THIRTY' SECONDS "Eddie" Egan. middleweight champion of the interallied games, now in Industrious Indus-trious pursuit of a degree at Yale university, univer-sity, looks back with much mirth at his experience In the interallied hexing finals. In the space of a few days he was to ha"e met three men. Negri, the Italian, the Belgian champion and Thomas. the French pommeler. in the order named. Wading into Negri In a Pempsevan fashion, Egan floored the Italian on his second blow, and the referee could have counted a hundred before the fishter came to.. The knockout came after thirtv seconds sec-onds of fighting, and just naturally ruined the morale of the Belgian, who was second on the list. He forfeited, having watched the disposal of Negri. Thomas, who would probabh- have given Egan a good scrap, wa6 forced to default because of a broken bone in his hand. So Egan won the title in half a minute, and he has to smile as he thinks of trj--. i eling 30il0 miles for thirty seconds' fighting. fight-ing. Having returned from the interallied games. Egan has returned his work as assistant physical director of the New Haven Y. M. C. A-, entered upon his second sec-ond rear at Yale, and is a member of the. football squad. |