Word: theres
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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A good segment of the sports world is having itself quite a panic over the television "menace": as more and more promoters and arena owners cry out that the new entertainment medium is grabbing too many dollars out of gate receipts. What throws the whole thing into confusion, however, is...
There are plenty of television bans in other sports, but most of today's trouble is coming from boxing. Until the second Joe Louis-Jersey Joe Walcott championship, the promoters were quite chummy with the television people, but in that championship bout the gate took a big beating when the...
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...
Indeed, there is a lot about this business that seems fishy. The physical contact is not what it might be and points are traded back and forth too evenly. More than one jam reminded me of the jockey's query, "Where's number two? Let him through; let him through...
By definition, then, the sport is bound to get rather fierce at times. Elbows are thrown with reasonably gay abandon and spills are frequent. But there wasn't a genuine body check all evening the night I went (this is surprising in a game like this) and the girls were...