Word: mismatched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cockpit." In the wake of Columbia's embarrassingly thorough, four-straight conquest of Britain's Sceptre by an average margin of 8 min. 43 sec.† off Newport, R.I. last week, sailing buffs asked: Why had the America's Cup races produced such an astounding mismatch...
With short, precise kicks, the five forwards tied up the goalie with a network of passes, then finished him off with low, whistling boots. When the intracity mismatch in St. Louis, Mo. was over last week, the Kutis Undertakers had routed the Jadrans, 13-0, and the experts were guessing that Tom Kutis had again dug up the best soccer team in the nation...
...took Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson less than three minutes to convince every fight fan in the Polo Grounds that his match with Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson was a wretched mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and was on his knees at the bell. He went down again in the second, again in the ninth. In between, he did some calisthenics, tried a few yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called...
Most of the nation's sportswriters, before the bout, had called the fight an obvious mismatch. New York Post Sportswriter Jimmy Cannon put part of the blame on the NBC network: "The fight racket is now television's responsibility. It rs no longer an arena sport but a family divertissement. The networks should decide what their cameras gaze upon...
...Angeles, in a "deliberately arranged mismatch," John Barber, 6 ft. 6 in. center for Los Angeles State College, playing nothing but offense, scored 188 points in a basketball game against Los Angeles' Chapman College. Final score: 208-82. The game, explained State College Coach Sax Elliott, was his answer to Rio Grande's Bevo (116 points) Francis...