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Carl Furillo led the Dodgers with ! nis’ fly that set up the winning-two doubles and a triple driving in score in the sixth.$50,000 a Year KeepsGal Grappler in FoodBY FRANK ECK Newark, N. J. — Some peopleThere’s no fooling around and no might say it’s almost impossible for ; feigning helplessness like with the Mildred Burke to lose a wrestling ! men. And I think lady wrestling is match because her husband, Billy , much faster. There are about 100 Wolfe, makes the matches. Of j female wrestlers in the country andreal good.C*. * lt;*FVRILLO TRIPLES IX SECOND—Broo third base just beating ball (arrow) thrc for throw*in is Pittsburgh Third Basetna second inning of game at New' Yorkcourse, these people would be the ones who don’t know the inside story.Among the trade — the lady wrestlers’ trade — they say Mildred Burke is tops in her field. She’s never been thrown during her 13JJNew York — (.T— Story out of j--Jersey City is that: the crackup j Willmnabout 1G are Miss Burke got her chance to become a wrestler almost 15 years ago in Kansas City. “I pestered Billy to let me wrestle with some amateurs. I weighed only 115 pounds then. Billy got so tired of years and though she weighs but me bothering him that one da\ he 135 pounds she once tossed a 190- j hired a gypsy boy for $1. He gave pound gal, Mae Young, in Houston, ■ the bov instructions to throw me.Tex. ^ pinned the boy and soon turnedThe 33-year-old five-foot-two pro. blue-eyed matlady with auburn hair | Billy decided to take me onand sparkling blue eyes recalls a lt;tour. There weren’t many women^ match she had in Mexico City a few 1 wrestlers than so I wrestled against; means of a remarkably low rent 'burned..years ago. j men weighing 125 pounds. In some for Roosevelt stadium and an amaz- ike Mit “I cam© up with a fever a few* towns we had to put ads asking for t hours before,” says Miss Burke. “I men within ten pounds of my } had a high temperature but had to weight.”Toughest match she ever had was against Betty Nichols at Columbus.O., back around 1938. “In the first match she blackened my eye and ^ the bout was so rough it was stop-| ped after 20 minute-?,” says Mildred.of the Frank Hague political re- j made I g-ime means the end of the little j Three Giants. . . . Seems the ball dub game r has been avoiding red ink by j runs ahdncront-oceonJ. Bf W V* Tl^ ’---xngly high opening-day ticket sale.. r If that deal is called off, the parent Giants are said to be ready to give up. . . , Over in Newark the Bears are ready to give dp, period.They just can’t attract enough cash the Vi customers. ... A strang thing about; ffuy q. the situation, one International lea-! that titivities Willie The Ci the “biguer points out, is that the New “The next week we went 30 minutes 1 York dubs which own these teams to a draw. In ihe third match I de- make tremendous efforts to attract feated her in about: 18 minutes. Bet- New Jersey customers. . . - ^ty was so broken hearted she gave niucli the same in Columbus, Ohm, up wrestling.” our informant added. “Bill Veeckputs on stunts that draw fan? to Cleveland. So do the Cleveland foot-ForiOnMildred ha? had both knees banged up, both thumbs dislocated, andhas a scar on her left evelid! Yet ! bal1 and hockey clubs. The result isMILDRED Bl RKE * * *it.e:e;eLSS.in everyday attire she would pass for a Sunday School teacher.Thf.re are only six states in which women do not wrestle. They are New York, California, Connecticut, Michigan, Illinois and Kansas, says Wolfe, “It’s not illegal in those states,” lie adds, “It’s just that they don’t give licenses to women.”Miss Burke seldom loses her head even when some opponent plays the villain, as her rivals often do. But there was the time in Toledo when she kicked the referee.“The announcer immediately informed the crowd that the commission had fined me $5 for kicking the referee,” recalls Mildred, “Some fan sent up a $10 bill with a note to give the money to the referee with another kick to boot. I handed the $10 to the referee and said. Here, I have another kick coming. Here’s an: the Columbus fans go there instead of to home games.” . . . The heck of it is none of these teams has any place to go.itwrestle. No substitute was available. My opponent took advantage by belting me in the stomach at the start of the match. It was the first time I ever crawled for the ropes to gasp for air. I really had the wind knocked out of me. When I returned to the ring I tossed her i all around the ring. Each time she tried to submit I tossed her some more before I finally ended it. I certainly taught that girl a lesson.”Mildred gets a big kick out of wrestling, not to mention a comfortable living. She grosses about $50,- ... - ..... i, ____ showings a year m the same city000 a year, wrestling anywhere l4_ ‘ ,Say It Ain’t So (News item: Jack Dempsey proposes staging Pep-Saddler fight in Yale bowl.)The Elis would suffer the greatest of shocks If Yale would yield to the school of hard knocks.And lease the bowl and the boola boo laTo a couple of guys who are fight-for moola.Dry your tears, old Blues, and hush your moansEvaiern 1 will et tiec tlt; trasqu and tb Fori White; who w fall. Six Purple back 1 the fAnoth dale i;Bob mond, the PiDameera” tIfootbaIt would just be a meeting of skull [first o and bones, p.S.If they really want a fight in theidea 'cf her' schedule flt;*l* •Mwl- »« «“* lt;° doon thlt;fton a recent eastern tour: Friday — Philadelphia; Saturday — Trenton: Monday — Camden; Tuesday — Baltimore: Wednesday — Washington: Thursdav — New Brunswick; i' • IFriday — Newark, and Saturday— Teaneck, N. J.She makes only two or threeup the goal posts and Harvard boys loose.turn a fewOne-Minute Sports PageFrank Leahy sends his Notreisfrom three to six nights a week for eight months for 15 to 20 per cent of the gate. Her expenses come pretty high, like $4,500 every year for a new car on which she puts (•_ ! 100,000 miles, plus plane fare for a I one-night stand hundreds of miles off her swing, hotel and meal bills ]] and about $200 a week for phone calls.Born in Coffeeville, Kans., Miss Burke now lives in Los Angeles where she has bought two homes, one for her mol her who, while Mildred is on tour, takes care of her 14-year-old son by a former marriage.The lariv wrestler with the waistToo many appearances would kill the sport,” she says. She’s bookeduntil June and already has a booking for December in the Boston Garden where she’s shown her full Nelson, hammer holds and alligator clutch before 14.000 fans.islea-BE SURE TO ATTENDTheFARM and HOME SHOWTonight Through Sunday Lincoln Fieldhouse, Wisconsin Rapids.!I.tiflr;LS-na-rt i of a follies girt and arm and shoul-totilebder muscles of a female Atlas, advises sports, evon wrestling, for uomeo.“Wrestling for fun is good sport. Amateur wrestling keep^ the body agile. Rut in pro wrestling it hasAUCTION
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Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, US
Fri, May 13, 1949
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