It was obvious that to match Brumidi, white must be mixed with all but the darkest tones.

But the nickname never stuck and Gehrig was no match for Ruth in `` color '' -- which is sometimes a polite word for delinquent behavior on and off the field.

Shayne noted idly that it carried Miami Beach license plates as he approached, and then saw the flare of a match in the front seat as they passed, indicating that it was occupied.

Even so, it was still not clear to many in the enormous horde of spectators -- unquestionably the largest golf crowd ever -- that this tournament was to be, essentially, a match between Palmer and Player.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

He attained a reputation for brawn and audacity after a very competitive wrestling match to which he was challenged by the renowned leader of a group of ruffians, " the Clary's Grove boys ".

To keep options available for lower case letters and other graphics, the special and numeric codes were arranged before the letters, and the letter " A " was placed in position 41 < sub > hex </ sub > to match the draft of the corresponding British standard.

Though a world championship match between Karpov and Fischer was highly anticipated, those hopes were never realised.

Fischer insisted that the match be the first to ten wins ( draws not counting ), but that the champion would retain the crown if the score was tied 9 – 9.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

A fourth match was played, against a " United Australian XI ", which was arguably stronger than the Australian sides that had competed in the previous three matches ; this game, however, is not generally considered part of the 1882 – 83 series.

Because the series was at stake, the match was to be " timeless ", i. e., played to a finish.

Australian captain Herbie Collins was stripped of all captaincy positions down to club level, and some accused him of throwing the match.

Bradman himself thought that his 254 in the preceding match, at Lord's, was a better innings.

It was not until the last session of what was the 7th Test ( one match having been abandoned without a ball bowled ) that England's success was secured.

This was a remarkable match in which Australia looked certain to take a 2 – 0 series lead after they had forced England to follow-on 227 runs behind.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

After a rain-affected draw at Edgbaston, the fourth match at Headingley was convincingly won by Australia by an innings and 80 runs to level the series.

sc Heerenveen managed to do the same in 2008 – 09, though their away victory at Feyenoord was a KNVB Cup match ( Heerenveen had drawn 2 – 2 at De Kuip in the Eredivisie match ).

Sometimes this will be the culmination of an entire feud, ending it for the immediate future ( known as a blowoff match ).

The Luchas de Apuestas match is usually seen as the culmination of a long and heated storyline between two or more wrestlers with the winner getting the " ultimate victory ".

The culmination of their feud took place at WrestleMania VI, where in a match where the Million Dollar Belt was on the line, DiBiase gained a count-out victory over Roberts, thus regaining the non-sanctioned title.

Also during his time in WCCW came Roberts ' most famous individual angle, which in 1983 involved the invention of what they referred to as " Freebird Hair Removal Cream ", the culmination of the angle being a hair match between Roberts and Iceman Parsons.

It was announced on 30 July 2009 that the ground would host an Ashes Test match in 2013, the culmination of Durham's growth as a First Class County since 1992.

Speed's first competitive match was the Euro 2012 qualifier at home to England 26 March 2011 and Speed appointed twenty year old Aaron Ramsey captain, making Ramsey the youngest ever Wales captain.

A 4 – 1 home win in a friendly match versus Norway on 12 November 2011 proved to be Speed's last match in charge of Wales.

The match had seemed to be going to extra-time but Speed's 90th minute winning goal had stopped the Leeds from needing a replay to overcome their lower league opponents.

Speed's first competitive match was the Euro 2012 qualifier at home to England 26 March 2011 and Speed appointed twenty year old Aaron Ramsey captain, making Ramsey the youngest ever Wales captain.

Speed's last game as manager of Wales was on 12 November 2011, a 4 – 1 home win in a friendly match against Norway.

The match between Swansea City and Aston Villa at the Liberty Stadium, held only hours after Speed's death was announced, was dedicated to his memory.

On 4 January, the Football Association of Wales announced that a match in Speed's memory would be played on 29 February at Cardiff City Stadium.

' Forever Changes ' overflows with innovations that match any of the efforts of better-known contemporaries.

Over 1998, SimCity 3000 was meddled with somewhat, but Maxis was allowed to finish the game on its own time ; following this, Wright's efforts were thrown into The Sims, at the time seen as a major gamble for the company, as the dollhouse game was not seen as a match for the video game market's demographics.

While the unified facades were never realised, and some developments didn't quite match the rest of the reconstruction efforts on the street leading to criticisms of an opportunity lost, Lower O ' Connell Street was nonetheless rebuilt in a coherent fashion, its buildings maintaining a standard cornice line and making use of similar materials of limestone, granite, Portland stone, and red brick with stone dressings.

While the match has been going on, Carl's previous efforts to kill the gopher have failed, and he has now wired much of the course with plastic explosives in a final scorched earth tactic.

In the 1962 World Cup finals match against Brazil in Chile, a stray dog ran on to the pitch and evaded all of the players ' efforts to catch it until Greaves got down on all fours to beckon the animal.

Slaughter's efforts ultimately proved futile as Chyna threw powder in his eyes, interfered in the match anyway, and hurled Slaughter into the front row.

This is not just of theoretical concern, but matters to executives too – efforts by the management of firm B to match A ’ s profitability could well destroy its ability to grow profits, for example.

Northern Ireland Minister of Culture, Arts and Leisure, Carál Ní Chuilín, the first senior Sinn Féin representative to attend an international at Windsor Park, commended " the very real efforts that have been made by the IFA to tackle sectarianism at their matches " after a match in August 2011.

" He also put over the Michaels-Undertaker match at WrestleMania XXV, saying he was proud of both men's efforts and that despite his personal feelings towards Michaels, he always had the utmost respect for his abilities.

The Badminton World Federation had charged the four pairs with “ not using one ’ s best efforts to win a match ” and “ conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport .”

Baseball also became plagued by match fixing despite efforts by the National League to stop gambling at its games.

Kip's efforts ultimately proved futile ; James, the guest referee in a final match between Brown and Kip versus Konnan and Killings at Sacrifice, attacked Kip enabling a 3Live Kru victory.

Despite Myrna's best efforts to destroy this match, they eventually marry.

This strategy maximized his efforts on certain points and in certain games during the course of a match to increase his chances of winning.

The creation of the club was largely through the efforts of the Walker family of Southgate, which included several notable players including the famous V. E. Walker, who in 1859 became the first player to take 10 wickets in an innings and score a century in the same match.

He was the grandson of Ralph Brett, a train driver who drove the royal train during the reign of George V. Dean grew up as a supporter of Everton thanks to the efforts of his father, William Sr, who once took him to a match during the 1914 – 1915 title-winning season.

Thanks to these efforts, Bangladesh are currently above Zimbabwe in the LG ICC ODI rankings, and showing that they are improving by the match.

" Though Archie is caught as the mastermind of the match and confronted, Brother Leon intervenes on Archie's behalf and in private praises his efforts that led to unprecedented results in the chocolate sale.

Tait's best efforts of the tournament included a Man of the Match performance against England in a Super 8s match at Antigua in which he claimed 3 / 41 off 10 overs, as well as 4 / 39 off 10 overs, his best One Day International figures at the time, against a strong South African team in the Semi Final at St Lucia.

While Tait went wicketless in a rain affected Final against Sri Lanka, Australia won the match and Tait's efforts throughout the tournament helped Australia secure their third consecutive and fourth overall Cricket World Cup title in the " most dominant campaign " by a team in World Cup history.

Despite Rico's best efforts to unfairly help Billy and Chuck, Rikishi and he won the match and became the Tag Team Champions.

Vader and Goldust interfered in the match on Coachman's behalf and received spinebusters for their efforts.

These fine efforts landed him a match with veteran former champion Sonny Liston on December 6, 1969.

The recently created club played its first match thanks to the efforts of Mr. Mulhall, who searched for rivals at the port zone.