Word: match
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn Bonfire. In Brooklyn, 18-year-old Joe Raia siphoned gas from his father's car to put into the car of his 17-year-old friend, Izzio Frangale. Some of the gas spilled. The boys lit a match to see how much they had lost, promptly sent up in flames the gasoline, garage, two cars and an adjoining house...
...professional dancer, Helen Martin, twelve years ago, when she met Alexander M. Sobel, who taught her the intricacies of duplicate. Result: within two years she won her first championship match (U.S. women's pairs); within five years she married Sobel. He soon acknowledged himself worsted, gave up tournament play and turned his attention to revising bridge laws and to his job as executive tournament manager of the American Contract Bridge League. Once a year, handsome, jovial Al Sobel plays with Mrs. Sobel in the New York City married-jouples match, for the Mr. & Mrs. A. M. Sobel trophy...
Within 30 minutes, another tense battle was going on-this time a volleyball match-and the scene might have been more appropriate to a college gymnasium than to a spot 90 miles from Jap bases...
Riding on the crest of a two-game winning streak, Coach Arthur Douropulos' Crimson tennis team will invade Davisville, Rhode Island, tomorrow for a match with the Camp Endicott outfit...
...week from tomorrow the Crimson netmen will tangle with Brown at Providence. Earlier in the summer season these two teams clashed in a match which resulted in a sweeping 9-0 victory for the Crimson. On the tentative side of the Crimson schedule is a meeting with M.I.T...