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...varsity hockey team will meet Northeastern at the Arena at 7 p.m. tonight, but it is doubtful if many Crimson partisans will see the game unless they already have their tickets. The evening's intercollegiate hockey entertainment has been a complete sellout for nearly two weeks, not because Harvard is playing Northeastern, but because BC and BU will indulge in their second annual bloodbath in the feature attraction...
...roller derby, hippodromed spectacles that masquerade as sports, hailed television as a savior. The roller derby, after a dozen years of life in the back streets, still ranked in popularity with curling and hurling when it went on TV in 1947. Since then it has played to sellout audiences, 90% of whom first saw it over TV. Wrestling, too, had a sweaty, dying pallor until it was hurried onto TV as an inexpensive fillin. So astounding was its success that when Promoter Ned Irish put a wrestling match into Madison Square Garden last month, he grossed over...
Glorified Crime. The Giuliano issue of Oggi was a swift sellout (1,200,000 copies). It had barely hit the streets when the conservative // Tempo accused its rival of "basically indecent" conduct in consorting with a bandit. Embarrassed Minister of Interior Mario Scelba fired Palermo's chief of police, ordered the Mi-Jan police to arrest Meldolesi, Rizza and Editor Rusconi. The charge: "aiding and abetting banditry and glorifying crime...
...International Amphitheater in the heart of Chicago's stockyards, last week, a scarlet-coated trumpeter tooted his horn. A hush fell over a sellout crowd of 11,000. Fourteen high-stepping horses trotted into the ring, their tails arched high,*their riders sitting with ramrod-straight backs. At stake was the championship for five-gaited horses...
Ever since the Louis-Walcott fight, televised championships have become the rarity. Ray Robinson and others balked when prospective sponsors wouldn't pay over $50,000 in rights; only once last year--after a sellout house had been assured--did the TV camera follow championship boxing. However, there has been this one compromise: in general, only the setowners within a 50 or 75 mile radius of the stadium are done out of their television, for outside this area the promoters have no worries...