Word: home-town
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...analysis of the Games were written by Associate Editor Edwin Bolwell. Bolwell, who will be in Munich later this month covering the Games firsthand, was first introduced to the Olympics spectacle 16 years ago. The Games were then in Melbourne, Australia, and Bolwell was a reporter for his home-town Melbourne Herald...
...Boston Bruins figured it, they had no business being in New York. They should have won the Stanley Cup days before-on home ice before home-town fans-but the feisty New York Rangers had engineered a surprising upset. Embarrassed to have to hit the road again before they could wind up the playoffs, the Bruins wasted no time mauling the Rangers for their second National Hockey League championship in three years...
...Ford Enterprises rolled into the Boston Garden not too long ago and brought back some home-town favorites: the infamous Caruso, the Black Demon, Little Brutus and his midget tag-team,' and of course Bruno Sammartino. While Caruso (left) amused the crowd with his rope-chokes and ring-side histrionics and Manuel Soto, a local darling, summarily stomped the Black Demon (right), everyone waited for the big match between Sammartino and Turo Tanaka, "Professor of Jujitsu...
While the Washington Senators were defeating the Cleveland Indians 9-1 in Robert F. Kennedy Stadium last week, the home-town team was losing a far more significant battle in Boston by the score of 10-2. That was the vote by which the American League team owners agreed to let Senator Owner Bob Short move his club to the Dallas-Fort Worth area next season. The Senators' need to move was underscored by the fact that the Cleveland game drew only 1,072 fans, the smallest turnout in the league this season...
...Martin Lettunich, a wealthy cotton farmer who had been steadily losing bets to a hot local golfer at the Horizon City Country Club in El Paso. Seeking revenge, Lettunich telephoned Trevino in Dallas and offered to pay his expenses if he would come to El Paso and play the home-town star in a "sociable game." Trevino. who was broke as usual, agreed to come, instantly. "I shot a 65 and 67 and beat him like a tom-tom. I turned him every way but loose." That earned Trevino $300 and the chance to become a teaching pro at Horizon...