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 Browning and Savoldi decided to defy the curfew and return to the mat. After another half hour, Savoldi flew feet first at Browning's chin (the "drop-kick"), missed, crashed on his back. Browning fell on him, won the match. Next day the Commission formally repealed its curfew order.

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