Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...round of golf for their benefit, amazed them afresh by averaging more than 200 yd. with her drives, scoring under 90. When it was established that Babe Didrikson is also an expert swimmer, basketball player, baseball pitcher, football halfback, a proficient billiardist, a clever tumbler, a boxer and wrestler, a fencer, weight lifter and adagio dancer, she could only be described by appalled reporters as a "wonder girl." Last week, Wonder Girl Didrikson had cause for wonderment herself. The Amateur Athletic Union suspended her from amateur competition in the U. S. and then promised to reinstate her if & when...
...with their heads locked like two foolishly embattled elks, Lewis and Steele separated, glared, grunted. Steele whacked Lewis on the face with the back of his hand. Referee Forbes warned him to refrain. Steele whacked Lewis three times more. Instead of disqualifying Steele, Referee Forbes warned him again. A wrestler who had helped Lewis train for the match, lop-eared John Evko, climbed into the ring in his bathrobe, whacked Challenger Steele. Referee Forbes tried unsuccessfully to push Wrestler Evko out of the ring, then awarded the bout to Lewis on a foul. A disgruntled spectator slapped Promoter Jack Curley...
Coach Gallagher addressed the candidates yesterday, and stated that "training and knowledge are the most important factors in producing a good wrestler." Following this talk, Captain Johnson spoke a few words, saying in part "that although the team will have to face a hard schedule this year, in view of the exceptionally large number of experienced men returning, the team should even better its record of last year, when they lost but one meet...
Married. Paul-Louis Weiller, wealthy French director of the Gnome and Rhone Motors Co.; and Alice Diplarakos, Greek winner of the 1930 "Miss Universe'' title; in Paris. Witnesses: Author Paul Morand, Poet Paul Valery, Diplomat Philippe Berthelot. No witness was Graeco-American Wrestler Christopher Theophilus (Jim Londos), once reported engaged to Alice Diplarakos...
...fists hard, but it is not enough to knock out Oakie. When the fight is over, Oakie reassures his girl (Marion Nixon), then goes, accompanied by the other right-thinking members of the cast including Jack Johnson, to take physical revenge on the racketeers. Good shot: an addled headed wrestler (Warren Hymer) training in a gymnasium which is an exact reproduction of Lou Stillman's at 316 W. 5th St., Manhattan...