Word: matches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When officials asked her to play a semifinal match on a side court, Patricia had a fit of sulks. The more she thought about it, the madder she got. Said she: "I told the committee I would play only on the center court. I'm the defending champion and I don't see why I can't play on the center court . . ." Just to show them, Pat flounced out of the stadium. France's Mme. Nell Landry promptly claimed and got a victory by forfeit...
...evening in Manhattan's old Hippodrome twelve years ago, Ed ("Strangler") Lewis was trying to pin Lee Wykoff to the mat with some purely scientific holds. It was an honest wrestling match without any phony dramatics. It was also horribly dull to watch. At the end of two boring hours, the Hippodrome was nearly empty -and legitimate wrestling was dead...
Catcalls & Curls. Five years ago, George Wagner was an ordinary wrestler who earned about $100 a match. Now he has an act. Last week, in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, 11,845 people waited impatiently for the preliminaries to end. At the cue, the amplifiers blared the Entry of the Gladiators and down the aisle strode James (George's valet) in morning coat, Kelly green vest and tie. He took a spray gun from a silver tray and began spraying the ring (George says that he just can't stand germs). The music stopped and a transcribed voice...
...Yale match rained out and will not be replayed) Won 10 Lost...
...result is an electric current which fluctuates rapidly to match the picture. This current is amplified and sent by a radio transmitter to the television receiver, where it controls the strength of a second electron beam in a rather similar tube...