Word: harringay
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...They plastered the sides of 600 buse with posters and rented 150 billboards 3,000 units of smaller outdoor advertising and 1,500 tube-station posters. They passed out 20,000 car stickers, organized 1,000 volunteer ushers to work on 200 man shifts in huge (11,000 seats) Harringay Arena. About 5,000 home prayer meetings a week were held to pray for the success of the crusade, and 2,700 "counselors" were trained to follow through with the men and women who step forward at Billy Graham's call to "make a decision for Christ...
...spectacle in London's Harringay Arena made one loyal boxing fan shudder and say: "From now on, wrestling will be my hobby." In the third round, New Jersey's Lee Savold had popped glass-chinned Bruce Woodcock on his glass chin. Down went Brucie. In the fourth round, Savold popped him again with a low body blow. Woodcock, collapsing like a damp dishrag, lay moaning & groaning on the floor. Some of the sportwriters were reminded of a countryman of his, "Fainting Phil" Scott, who had made an art of collapsing, back in the late...
That was too much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped the photo-finish camera into one of them, heaved bookies' stools through the windows of the track restaurant...
...some time trouble had been bubbling up around Britain's most popular sport, dog racing, which gained adherents in wartime when horse racing was virtually suspended, drew 30,000,000 fans to Harringay, White City and the 102 other British tracks last year. During the war, when there was not much else to gamble on, the customers thought there was dirty work but nobody did anything about it. (One suspected tactic: giving the favorite a bucket of water to drink just before post time, so that he bogged down...
Several weeks ago there were rumors of a dog-doping wave, and Scotland Yard's operatives went on the job, with unannounced results. A deputation of Harringay "punters" (heavy bettors) told track officials that if they saw any more funny business, they would wreck the place...