Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...method. First of all, it gives too much weight to the personal opinion of the referee, who, lacking hard-and-fast rules, usually sends close bouts into an overtime session. Also, under present rules, it is possible for a man to win without displaying any aggressive wrestling. Such a wrestler could gain an early time advantage and then merely stall or hang on for dear life until the end of the bout...
Married. Primo ("Old Satch") Carnera, 32, onetime carnival wrestler who became world heavyweight champion boxer in 1933, later turned to cinemacting; and Pina Cavazzi, 26, postal clerk; in Sequals, Italy...
Both contenders were in their best form and used every hold in their wrestling vocabulary. Harkness showed that quick deftness which caused the critics to name him the third best wrestler in the country last year. He kept Boston running with a series of well executed switches...
...downed by John Bird of Yale in the 155 pound class, and Ted Schoenberg was nosed out for a decision by Norman Bond of Penn. who had defeated him earlier in the season. Another close bout was fought between Duncan Longcope and Bortz, a stellar Penn. State wrestler...
Both Ross and Allman in their 121 pound match showed some of the bet wrestling in the meet. Repeating last year's achievement, Allman was the winner by a fall. The little blind Penn wrestler is one of the really outstanding men in his weight throughout the country...