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Paflt 10, Alict EchaNtws, Wed., May 14, 1973?ttA\jBL►SUSIE GREENGirl WrestlerByVAN BEARDENSwirts F.ditorA one time tomboy dream has flowered into a $14.(KH)-a* year profession for Alice's own Susie Green, rated one of the top twenty girl wrestlers in the worldd as “Big Tex,” Susie ha*- displayed her unusual talent in all but five states in the union including prestigious performances at Madison Square Garden and the CowPalace, plus in Hawaii, Alaska,Hong Kong. Puerto Kico andCanada,Standing 6-1 and tipping the scales at 170 pounds, the 19 year-old Hub City product has the distinction of being both the world’s youngest and tallest woman wrestler Susie, along with her former partner, Sandy Parker of Vancouver, Canada, won the World Champion Tag Team Belt in 1971 in Hawaii. The bolt had to be returned to its previous owners, however, when Susie’s teammate was later forcedMakeMoreTradesinto an earlyretirement with a busted leg-one of the hazards of the trade.It is not ironic then that Susie’s pet peeve is people who don’t believe in the genuineness of wrestling They would if they paid her chiropractor bills.Since giving up the belt, the limelight hasn’t passed the Alice athlete by. She appears regularly in the pages of wrestling magazines, where the writers are quick to make note of her 36-24-35 form. Also, since pairing up with new partner, Vicky Williams of Sante Fe. Ga , she has made recent appearances in her home state, with the latest being last weekend at Antonio. The bout was televised and many of her Alice fans got to view it Despite all of this, there is still a lot of work in-HOUSTON (UPI) - TheHouston Oilers have traded star safety Ken Houston andthe trade for Houston, a 6-3, 198-pounder fron Prairie View who holds the NFL record forvolved as her proud parents,Alice's OwnMr and Mrs Robert Green of 814 Glen wood explain“She took lessons for three months with men in Corpus Christi before she could get a license. says her father,” and they cost a lot of money,” Despite the cost, Mr. Green, a driller for Flournoy, was quick to fork out the money as he was the one responsible for getting the youngest of his five children interested in the sport.“I have been a wrestling fan since the !930's,” says Mr Green “I used to go over to Corpus Christi every week to watch the bouts and also at the Alice V F W as long as they had them“She learned to swim with the Boy Scouts at the V.F W pool, and then later on in high school at William Adams she won a lot of medals on the swimming team She also got a trophy playing softball for the Roadrunners. and she played quarterback in a powder-puff football game her senioryear.Despite her tomboy per sonality and the uninterest in boys, they were evidently interested in Susie as she was asked to the prom both her junior and senior years in high school and she attended the A1 Dean country dancesregularlyShe Always Was A Tomboy11I started taking Susie when she was ten-years-old. No one else if the family was interested in wrestling, but Susie loved it She even used to say that was what she wanted to be when she grew up.”After getting her hard earned license in August of 1970, Susie had to accept some restrictions covered in her contract such as bleaching her normal brown hair to blonde and the fact that she can’t be married as long as she fights One thing that she wouldn’t allow, however, was the taking of a fight name.“She didn’t mind the part about not being able to get married,” says her mother, a cashier for Dena’s Restaurant,“because she has never been really interested in boys, but she refused to use any name other than her own. Susie won.”Mrs. Green never tried tohold Susie back from wrestling or taking part in any othersport.“She has always been a tomboy,” laughs Mrs Green.Susie lifts weights and runs a lot to keep in training, but both her parents agree that she was aided most in her profession by the physical fitness she received from swimming in high school Mr Green also stated that the training with the men in Corpus Christi also paid off as she learned a lot of holds that most girl wrestlers are ignorant of.The Green's seldom get to see their daughter more than once a year now that she is a wrestler, as the tour (which she is the only girl to make two years in a row) has engagements seven nights a week except in Texas which gives the wrestlers a rest on 15tmday. In fact she travels so much from her headquarters in Columbia. South Carolina that she had to buy a new car on her last trip home. She had put 92,000 miles on her ancient 14-month-old automobile. Even though she doesn’t get to come home very often, Susie telephones her parents every Sunday whether she is inTexas, Alaska, or Hong Kong.According to Mr. Green, the women wrestlers usually stay in the business for about fifteen years At only 19 and having won 90 percent of her fights, “Big Tex” Susie Green should really put Alice, Texas on the map before she is through. -lt;4AOUR BEST NON-BELTETIRE12’5PLUS 11.75 F.E.T..50-J3 TUB LESS BLACKWALLSILENT GUARD IISears best non-belted 4-fly nylon cord tire. PRICE JN-CLUDES SHIPPING. MOUNTING and Fed. Es. TasTUBELESS BLACKW7.75-14each]124.0*1||27.27TUBELESS WHITEWALL7.75-148.25-148.55-148.25-15130.27133.45834.43SearsLA VILLITA SHOPPING CENTER
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Alice Echo News
Alice, Texas, US
Wed, May 16, 1973
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