Word: mats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a meeting at 7 o'clock this evening in the Freshman Gymnasium of University and Freshman wrestling candidates, the 1927-28 mat season will get under way. Experience will be no factor in the initial practice, as all new men will be started on the same basis, with a drill on fundamentals...
University wrestling will not start in earnest until after the close of the foot-ball season, while the first-year mat men will hold an introductory meet in the latter part of December, and will settle down to serious practice in January. Wrestling candidates are asked to report at the meeting tonight whether they intend to start work at once or at the close of football...
...Manhattan, mechanics last week set about installing, in a Broadway booth, ten of the latest models of a four-year-old invention of one F. E. Gray of Philadelphia. Four years ago Mr. Gray devised a new place to drop nickels- the Sodamat. From the original Soda-mat all a patron got for his nickel was an ice-cream soda or other-soft drink, mixed with mechanical generosity, despatch and cleanliness; automatically spouted into the glass after the plunk of the coin. On the second Sodamat model, there were electric lights. The next carbonated its own soda-water. The models...
...turned several forward somersaults from the mat and not one from the springboard. I did somersaults backward from the springboard and from the mat. I do not know where your reporter got this information...
...springboard because of the photograph shown above-which was widely circulated by Pacific & Atlantic news photo service the day after Mr. Pond (aged 70) performed his difficult feat. For Mr. Pond to have turned aerial somersaults from a springboard is remarkable. For him to have turned them from the mat is all the more remarkable. TIME regrets that it unconsciously belittled Mr. Pond's feat, joins now in loud applause...