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 ).

He made his comeback a memorable one with a match winning hundred over Guyana, followed by a dismissive undefeated half-century in the second innings, scored at over two runs per ball.

An England v Wales match was played at the ground in 1911, followed by a rugby league international between England and Australia.

Despite losing this match, Essendon's performance was good enough for its players to be awarded Brownlow Medal votes – best-on-ground was Brent Stanton ( 3 votes ), followed by Jason Johnson ( 2 votes ) and Andrew Lovett ( 1 vote ).

After the World Cup Cronje was part of the tour to the West Indies ; he featured in the three ODI's and in the Test match at Bridgetown that followed he made his Test debut, this was South Africa first Test since readmission and they came close to beating a strong West Indian side, going into the final day at 122 / 2 chasing 200 they collapsed to 148.

Further disappointment followed in the 1983 – 1984 season when the team again reached the Coppa Italia final, only to lose the Cup in the final minutes of the return match against defending Serie A champions Roma.

In tournament play, the chair umpire announces the end of the match with the well-known phrase " Game, set, match " followed by the winning person's or team's name.

Should a player be determined to be stalling repeatedly, the chair umpire may initially give a warning followed by subsequent penalties of " point ", " game ", and default of the match for the player who is consistently taking longer than the allowed time limit.

The tie followed the same pattern as the previous round, Feijenoord losing the first match 1 – 0 away, then winning 2 – 0 at home.

They beat World Champions Italy 3 – 0 in their first match, followed by a 4 – 1 win over World Cup runners-up France.

Rangers ' new start in Division 3 got under way with a 2-2 draw away to Peterhead, followed by a 5-1 victory over East Stirlingshire in front of a crowd of 49, 118 at Ibrox, a record for a football match in a 4th tier league.

* The algorithm illustrated in Lempel and Ziv's original 1977 paper outputs all its data three values at a time: the length and distance of the longest match found in the buffer, and the literal which followed that match.

A match length code will always be followed by a distance code.

Beginning the 1994 – 95 season with 150 for NSW in a tour match against the England, Taylor followed up with 59 in an opening stand of 97 as Australia made 426 in the first innings to take the initiative in the First Test in Brisbane.

2006, a year which many experts predicted continued improvement for the Tigers, saw them lose their first H & A match by 115 points, against the Western Bulldogs, after which followed losses to St Kilda and West Coast.

Following the emerging pattern, another win followed this tie and she was matched against Prestage for a rubber match.

He followed this with 18, 34 and 60 at Brisbane and Adelaide before a compact 114 in the second innings of the Adelaide match revived his hundred count.

In 1974, Simon followed the smash No Secrets album with Hotcakes, which reached # 3 on Billboard's Album Chart and was certified Gold, though it did not match the sales of No Secrets.

In 1994, some 12, 000 spectators followed a match against the reserves squad of Hamburger SV, which still is the record.

A sample of brain tissue the size of a match head contains about a billion connections, and if we consider how these neuronal connections might be variously combined, the number of possible permutations becomes hyper-astronomical — in the order of ten followed by millions of zeros.

On October 15, 2011, additional seats were available for a record crowd of 64, 140 during the final regular season home match, a Sounders 2 – 1 win followed by ceremonies honoring retiring goalkeeper Kasey Keller.

The screenplay followed the book closely with some minor changes and some characters omitted: in the adaptation there was only one archeologist, there was no doctor, Jane was a stewardess and in the end Poirot does not match Jane with young archeologist as mentioned in the novel and some other minor changes ( such as in the TV adaptation, Poirot takes Japp to Paris, whereas in the book he takes the French Surete detective and also in the book most of the characters have come from Le Pinet where they have been enjoying some time at the casino, whereas in the adaptation the characters have been at a tennis match in Paris.

Before a 100, 000-person crowd, Belgium upset the defending champions Argentina 1 – 0 in the match that followed.