The Sports News, a weekly subscription-based newsletter, was published until about 1974. It was essentially an advance copy of the programs (entitled The Rassler)
which were sold at Fort Worth's North Side Coliseum, containing mostly the
same material plus the line-up for the upcoming card.
Shown above (top row) are the February 8, 1952 (click to view larger version in a new browser window) and May 3, 1957 editions; and (bottom row) issues from November 22, 1963 -- mailed, of course, during the week of President John F. Kennedy's assassination -- and March 29, 1965. Note the 1952 issue's column on other Dallas-area sports, which mentions the local minor league baseball team owner's decision to use "Negroes" for the first time.
The "posse match", as it was called during the Ed McLemore era, was a Texas-centric term for what is more commonly known as the lumberjack match. |
