Word: madisons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BILLY GRAHAM V. CHICO VEJAR read the signs in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (see SPORT). But the big event one night last week was the old battle of the Rev. Billy Graham v. the Devil. Evangelist Graham drew a laugh from a capacity crowd (22,000) by telling how a little boy in the audience had been disappointed when Billy turned out not to be his prize fighter namesake. Then, for the first time at a major meeting in New York, he moved in on the sinners of the big town...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Sandy Saddler, an animated skeleton who has changed prizefighting into assault with all available weapons-feet, forearms, elbows and head-pummeled an overmatched contender named Red Top Davis for 15 rounds, and hung on to what passes for the featherweight championship of the world...
Manhattan's Madison Square Garden echoed to the barking babel of 2,537 contestants tuning up for the Westminster Kennel Club show. In the noisome cellar, poked and petted by nosy spectators, combed, brushed and pedicured within an inch of their lives, the dogs awaited the big moment. Stalwart Shelties whimpered and rattled their chains, baboon-faced Afghans paced and snarled, scrappy little Skye terriers yapped through their long hair. Off in a corner, professional handlers gave their charges a last-minute grooming before they went upstairs to strut. Their necks strapped high in dressing stands, long-suffering purebreds...
...National A.A.U. championships, Kansan Wes Santee finally hit on the right tactics, held himself off the pace for the first three-quarters of the mile run, then burned up the boards of the Madison Square Garden track in a last-quarter dash that brought him home in a meet-record 4:07.9, three yards ahead of his persistent rivals, Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen and Private Fred Dwyer. Earlier, on the Garden's crowded infield, Lieut. Parry O'Brien put the 16-lb. shot to a new world indoor record...
Carl Goldman's tremendous 56 foot, i/4 inch heave in the 35 lb. weight throw accounted for half the total points of the varsity track team as it finished 13th in a field of 44 at the IC4A championships at Madison Square Garden in New York Saturday night...