Sport: California Curfew

Wrestlers Jim Browning and "Jumping Joe" Savoldi grappled, tugged, mauled each other one night last week in Los Angeles' Olympic Auditorium. Each had scored a fall when Referee Mickey McMasters looked at the clock. It was 11:15, the hour the California Athletic Commission had ordered all wrestling bouts to end. The referee tapped both men's shoulders to signify a draw, sent them from the ring.

Instantly the auditorium was a bedlam. Booing, shouting, shoving spectators tore chairs from the floor, heaved them into the ring, pulled down draperies, ripped out telephones. The riot lasted for a full half hour, ended only when...

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