Word: savoldi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than a year all Wildwood watched her gamely shake off pound after pound. When she lost 102 lb.and two of her chins, there was municipal rejoicing. Mayor Bradway further endeared herself to sporting Wildwoodmen at a wrestling match in the Municipal Auditorium. The audience became displeased with Wrestler Joe Savoldi for the tactics he was using to subdue his opponent, one Stanley Sokolis, and heartily approved when Mayor Bradway grabbed a plank, climbed into the ring and brought it down on Wrestler Savoldi's skull...
Wrestlers Jim Browning and "Jumping Joe" Savoldi grappled, tugged, mauled each other one night last week in Los Angeles' Olympic Auditorium. Each had scored a fall when Referee Mickey McMasters looked at the clock. It was 11:15, the hour the California Athletic Commission had ordered all wrestling bouts to end. The referee tapped both men's shoulders to signify a draw, sent them from the ring...
Instantly the auditorium was a bedlam. Booing, shouting, shoving spectators tore chairs from the floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order...
...wrestler three years ago, Man Mountain Dean swore that he would not shave until he won the championship. He now has a bushy brown beard, four inches long. He practices against his wife, whom experts consider a more accomplished wrestler than her husband. Last week, matched with Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer, who was not allowed to hurl himself at his opponent feet first as is his custom, Man Mountain Dean gave a miserable account of himself. After three minutes Savoldi butted his adversary head-first but below the belt, lost the bout on a foul. Carried...
...Browning, heavyweight champion wrestler in New York state: a bout against Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer, wrestling champion in Illinois; by decision of the referee, when, after two hours, neither contestant had secured a fall; in Manhattan...