Word: scoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last 300 years,. Japan's professional wrestlers have been divided into two groups-East and West. Most of the year, Easts and Wests tour the country giving exhibitions, developing young sumo addicts. Each group has its own ranking champion, a score or more competent subordinates, a squad of promising novices who are fed underdone beefsteak, trained to lift huge boulders, finally taught the 48 tricks & dodges of sumo. Twice a year a national tournament is held in the Kokugi-kan to determine by round robin the best wrestlers of each group, and the grand champion. Object of sumo...
...Tokyo fortnight ago 10.000 sumo addicts, including nobility, geisha, schoolboys, government officials, watched the matches on each of the ten days of the Kokugi-kan tournament. Outside the arena, thousands more bet on the matches, followed the results on score boards. Of the money spent for tickets, the performers got a trifling share. As stupid as they are immense, sumo performers are content with a maximum pay of $100 a month augmented only by gifts of swords, bottles of sake, new aprons from generous admirers. Four years ago, a sumo strike for better pay, shorter hours, cheaper seats, a mutual...
...quiet, proceeds to play as if he had no audience. When Schnabel decides on a program, his invariable comment is: "Who wants to come will come." It was to be expected that earnest young music students would be on hand for his series, meticulously following each note of the score. Surprise was that ordinary concertgoers would catch the fever, that by last week when the cycle approached its halfway mark the Schnabel recitals had become a popular rage. Seldom have audiences been more attentive. There are pianists who play with more flash than Schnabel, who hammer out louder crescendos, make...
Continuing its victorious record, the undefeated Varsity swimming team overcame the McGill mermen Saturday evening by a score of 56 to 15, having captured first place in all races but the 100-yard free style. With the McGill meet behind them, Coach Ulen's men will be ready to take on Yale next month...
Paced by Peto Stone's four goals, the Freshman hockey team defeated an unexpectedly powerful Cambridge Latin sextet by a score of 7-3 at the Garden yesterday afternoon. The invaders tallied all their goals in the second period...