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...reverse half-nelson and armlock gave heavyweight Frank French his first taste of defeat of the season Saturday as Bob Pickett pinned him in three minutes while the Freshman wrestlers were eking out a 17 to 11 victory over Governor Dummer Academy in the Indoor Athletic Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sports | 2/9/1942 | See Source »

...fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference, hooked his stubby broomstick fingers behind, squeezed. Bacigalupi wheezed and bellowed while his breath lasted, then the Angel grabbed him with an inside crotch & lift...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Angel | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Twenty minutes after the bout began, Londos applied his favorite hold, a Japanese armlock. Browning broke it, retaliated with the "airplane scissors" which he learned by wrapping his legs around a flour barrel on his Indiana farm. Planning to become a professional fisticuffer when he ends his career as wrestler, Browning cuffed Londos on the nose. Londos whacked his opponent on the ear, adroitly tripped him, twisted his foot in a toe hold. Wrestling bouts continue un til one contestant or the other is too tired or too dazed to function normally. After an hour and ten minutes, Londos last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Londos v. Browning | 7/2/1934 | See Source »

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