Word: roller
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Fortnight ago, they had practically agreed to invite Texas A. & M. The Aggies, led by Jarrin' Jack Kimbrough, a 220-lb. steam roller, had mowed down 19 opponents in a row, were considered the best team the Southwest had ever seen. But in 57 agonizing seconds last week, the Farmers saw their $100,000 bid to the Rose Bowl vanish. At Austin, where no Texas A. & M. team has beaten Texas since 1922, the old jinx spurred a team of Longhorns that had been twice beaten this year to paralyze their old rivals with a lightning-swift stab. With...
Last week skaters whirred around some 3,000 U. S. rinks, from Skowhegan to San Diego, from Atlanta to Seattle. The skaters in Detroit's Arena Gardens, largest of the city's four roller rinks, were especially gay. For they were celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arena Gardens Roller Skating Club (membership 5,000) and honoring portly, fiftyish Fred Martin, the man mainly responsible for all this fun on wheels...
Fred Martin started out as a hand-organ grinder in a San Francisco roller-skating rink, climaxed his whirring career by winning a roller marathon in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden (309 miles in 24 hours), then settled down to the swivel-chair job of managing rinks. When he took over Detroit's million-dollar Arena Gardens, he began to angle for tonier patronage and a national organization to clean up the country's shady, shoddy roller rinks. He caught both fish...
Three years ago, hearing that Londoners danced on roller skates, Manager Martin got England's famed roller-skating Ridstones, James & Joan, to tour the U. S. Their spellbinding exhibition of figure skating started America's roller-skating boom. Today most roller skaters, instead of going round & round in the old-fashioned way, do the Chicken Scratch, the Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament...
Figure skating on rollers is similar to figure skating on blades-except that roller skaters use the heel & toe where ice skaters use the blade's edges. Both have approximately the same 41 school figures. At the Arena Gardens, which "skate about 6,000 a week" at 50? a head, Manager Martin offers a half hour's free instruction in figure skating, elementary or advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute...