Word: mats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvardians, the first-year Engineers netting only a decision in the 165-pound class. Wrestling of high quality and of great interest was to be seen in practically every bout, especially in the 118-pound fight wherein R. D. Tucker put his opponent's back to the mat in just over a minute, and in the 135-pound struggle in which E. W. Chard scored a quick fall, and in another fall brought about by Captain Gridley Barrows in the heavyweight class. Closely contested bouts ending in decisions for Harvard held the watchers in suspense, in which Harold Frankel...
...Delafield (Mrs. Paul Dashwood) is one of the most successful because most delightfully light-fingered. One of her books, attempting to describe The Way Things Are in a typical country household, had the memorable motto: "I left the room with silent dignity, but caught my foot in the mat." When you have become thoroughly acquainted with a Delafield heroine you know she is entertainingly human, can only wonder helplessly whether to praise or blame...
...California. To Curley goes credit for having revived wrestling, long discredited by its reputation as an incurably crooked sport, as a big money-maker in eastern cities.* It is still maintained by experts, and borne out in college wrestling, that when wrestlers are sincere they immediately fall to the mat and lie prone, grunting, until one succumbs from fatigue. No matter what can be said for its spirit, such sincerity is exceedingly weak as entertainment...
...Lettermen who have returned to the mat this year seem to be in fine shape," declares Coach Gallagher. F. C. Evans '31, wrestling in the 118 pound class, heads the list followed by Arthur Klein '32, in the 125 pound class, H. R. Eisas, '32, 135 pound class, R. K. Safford '31, 145 pound class, and W. A. Newhart, elected captain of this year's mat-men, has not appeared as a candidate for the wrestling team and a new captain will be elected in the near future...
...upon church work and a honeymoon in Brazil, came news that a third, more elaborate Cannonade was being prepared. Four traveling elders of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South had sent recommendations to Bishop William Newman Ainsworth, chairman of the College of Bishops, that their colleague be put on the mat once more...