23.06.2004, 15:17
Monday, August 28, 1950
Lima, Ohio
Lima News
Sideline Chatter
By Dick Tracey
Lima News Sports Editor
Gorgeous Gussie Moran can make herself $100,000 and get a real chance to display her lace pants if she takes up the offer of a couple Columbus wrestling figures. Promoter Al Haft says he and wrestler Gorgeous George are ready to pay Miss Moran that amount if she will appear in a 15-minute bout on each of the 1951 programs in which Gorgeous George competes. Haft said he wired Bobby Riggs, Miss Moran’s New York tennis promoter, making the offer. He said that if Riggs Oks the propositiona nd Miss Moran accepts, he and George will deposit the $100,000 in Miss Moran’s name in any bank in the nation she may name. Gorgeous George said Miss Moran could continue her pro tennis career during the coming months prior to the 1951 wrestling season while at the same time taking wrestling lessons. Haft indicated Miss Moran would appear against select feminine grapplers in her quarter hour stints.
Thursday, July 22, 1965
Mansfield, Ohio
News Journal
Wrestler Stabbed by Fan Who Hates Blood
Pasadena, Calif (AP) – Make no mistake about it: John W. Jones, 79, doesn’t like the way Benjamin “The Mummy” Ramirez wrestles.
Ramirez, 33, was reported in good condition despite a three inch chest wound.
The 235 – pound Columbian professional wrestler was stabbed by an angry spectator after being disqualified for roughness in a bout with Pedro Morales.
Police have charged Jones – 11 inches shorter than Ramirez and weighing only 112 pounds – with assault with a deadly weapon.
“I like a good, clean match,” the bewhiskered, ex-race horse exerciser said in a Pasadena jail. “This Mummy was making Morales bleed. And I’m crazy about Pete.”
Thursday, February 13, 1913
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington Herald
Promoter Barton, is reviving the wrestling game in Lexington, is pursuing a wise course in presenting only wrestlers who have pronounceable names. Thanks to this foresight, Bob Hale will not soon be called upon to announce anything like "Mr. Zcheholjia, of Tehaljawompa, Turkey," when introducing the participants.
Lima, Ohio
Lima News
Sideline Chatter
By Dick Tracey
Lima News Sports Editor
Gorgeous Gussie Moran can make herself $100,000 and get a real chance to display her lace pants if she takes up the offer of a couple Columbus wrestling figures. Promoter Al Haft says he and wrestler Gorgeous George are ready to pay Miss Moran that amount if she will appear in a 15-minute bout on each of the 1951 programs in which Gorgeous George competes. Haft said he wired Bobby Riggs, Miss Moran’s New York tennis promoter, making the offer. He said that if Riggs Oks the propositiona nd Miss Moran accepts, he and George will deposit the $100,000 in Miss Moran’s name in any bank in the nation she may name. Gorgeous George said Miss Moran could continue her pro tennis career during the coming months prior to the 1951 wrestling season while at the same time taking wrestling lessons. Haft indicated Miss Moran would appear against select feminine grapplers in her quarter hour stints.
Thursday, July 22, 1965
Mansfield, Ohio
News Journal
Wrestler Stabbed by Fan Who Hates Blood
Pasadena, Calif (AP) – Make no mistake about it: John W. Jones, 79, doesn’t like the way Benjamin “The Mummy” Ramirez wrestles.
Ramirez, 33, was reported in good condition despite a three inch chest wound.
The 235 – pound Columbian professional wrestler was stabbed by an angry spectator after being disqualified for roughness in a bout with Pedro Morales.
Police have charged Jones – 11 inches shorter than Ramirez and weighing only 112 pounds – with assault with a deadly weapon.
“I like a good, clean match,” the bewhiskered, ex-race horse exerciser said in a Pasadena jail. “This Mummy was making Morales bleed. And I’m crazy about Pete.”
Thursday, February 13, 1913
Lexington, Kentucky
Lexington Herald
Promoter Barton, is reviving the wrestling game in Lexington, is pursuing a wise course in presenting only wrestlers who have pronounceable names. Thanks to this foresight, Bob Hale will not soon be called upon to announce anything like "Mr. Zcheholjia, of Tehaljawompa, Turkey," when introducing the participants.