D SERIES - Great Days In Sport
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D7102 sa-d-07102-pm Great Days In Sport EP.29. (Boxing:-Tommy Farr v Joe Louis) Recorded : 14/2/46 Z95A.
D7103a sa-d-07103-s01-pm Great Days In Sport EP.38. "Boxing ... John L Sullivan." Cut 14/3/46 Duration: 12' 44" V15A.
D7103b sa-d-07103-s02-pm Great Days In Sport EP.39. "Boxing .... John L Sullivan On Tour." Cut 14/3/46 Duration: 13' 07" Prog: G.D.S. V15B.
D7104a sa-d-07104-s01-pm Great Days In Sport EP.139.
"Cricket - Days of Grace." Recorded: 17/2/48 Duration: 12' 29" 1953-A.
D7104b sa-d-07104-s02-pm Great Days In Sport REJECTED [Swimming - Mona Laydon?] Recorded: 19/2/48 1976-B.
D7105 sa-d-07105-pm Great Days In Sport EP.136. "Polo - Most Exciting
of Games." Recorded: 12/2/48 Duration: 13' 28" 1924-A.
D7106a sa-d-07106-s01-pm Great Days In Sport EP.137. (Boxing - Johnson v Ketchel) Recorded: 3/2/48 Duration: 12' 23" 1889-A.
D7106b sa-d-07106-s02-pm Great Days In Sport EP.138. "The Story Of Stanley Ketchel." Recorded: 3/2/48 Duration: 12' 17" 1897-B.
D7107a sa-d-07107-s01-pm Great Days In Sport REJECTED EP.105. "Women In Sport" Recorded: 26/8/47 1103-A.
Two women take the male presenter of the Great Days in Sport series to task for not making any programmes on women in sport.
They talk about a Turkish champion female wrestler Miss Ermine (?) - studio recreation of a women's wrestling match. They discuss chess and argue it should also be conisdered a sport, with Miss Vera Minchik, a champion.
Miss Joyce Gardiner, a female billiards champion is also mentioned.
Other sports in which women have excelled are listed.
Tennis and Wimbledon champions Suzanne Langlands, Helen Wills, Senorita Alvarez, Helen Jacobs.
Golf - several female golfers are mentioned - and their appeaance.
Swimming - women who have swum the English Channel are discussed.
They note women could not be expected to take part in more physical sports, such as pugilism (boxing), but a description of a fight between two women is read.
D7107b sa-d-07107-s02-pm Great Days In Sport EP.106. (Rejected - Artist's Error) Recorded: 26/8/47 1103-B.
D7108 sa-d-07108-pm Great Days In Sport EP.143. "Speedway." (LAST EPISODE) Recorded: 24/2/48 Duration: 13' 14" 1999-A.
D7109a sa-d-07109-s01-pm Great Days In Sport Louis v. Dempsey Rec: 17/5/48 Duration: 10' 19" XZ-98B
D7109b sa-d-07109-s02-pm G.D.S. [Great Days In Sport] REJECTED XZ98A