Young boxers of New York Boy's Clubs participate in exhibition boxing matches at Madison Square Boys Club. A man supervises as the boys are weighed. They weigh in around 50 pounds. The 50 pound mini weight category match begins. Referee in the ring with the two boxers. The match underway. Spectators watch and cheer. The bell at the end of the match. Officials in the ring. The match is a draw. A second match begins. The match underway. Spectators cheer. The match ends. Officials announce and congratulate the winner.
Views of New York City mounted police officers riding on horse back. Policemen moving in organized two rows, led by another three policemen on three horses. The policemen ride along a Manhattan street and alongside Central Park. Vintage 1930's cars, buses, and trucks on road, people walking on footpath can be seen. Various Manhattan buildings along the street.
Joy Hodge taking out hats known as 'Tippy Tippy' from a case and see herself, wearing one in the mirror in New York City. She takes out the first and wears another. She poses wearing Tippy Tippy hat. Joy Hodge meets with navy cadets and shows hat which is identical to the cadets. Hodge walking with a group of cadets.
Newsreel clip entitled "World Series: Yanks and Giants Tied Up at Two Games Each." Highlights from games three and four of baseball's 1951 World Series at the New York Giants' stadium in Manhattan, the Polo Grounds. Many fans chomping on snacks, smoking cigars or cigarettes. Fans dangle their feet over edge of the upper deck. Close up of Giants rookie star and future Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Mays singles to right field, scoring Bobby Thomson from second base. Giants fans stand and cheer; African American man in hat shouts "That's my boy!" Later, Giants' Eddie Stanky kicks ball out of the glove of Yankees' Phil Rizzuto's glove, advances to third. Giants' Monte Irvin drives in Alvin Dark with infield hit. Giants' Whitey Lockman hits three-run homer. Fans cheer, teammates welcome Lockman at home plate. Giants win game 6-2. Action shifts to game four, still at Polo Grounds. Yankees' Bobby Brown hits long fly to center field. Willie Mays catches it but falls down, allowing Yankees' Gene Woodling to run to third. Joe Collins scores Woodling with a single. In the fifth inning, Yankees' Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio hits a home run to left field, scoring himself and fellow Hall of Famer Yogi Berra, who jumps excitedly as he runs around the bases. Fans cheer as Yankees greet DiMaggio in dugout. Yankees win game, 6-2, and would go on to win the series, four games to two.
Stage show on skates featured in New York Ice Follies at the Madison Square Garden. Figure skaters with rings dance in formations. Skaters in disguise as donkey takes rounds of the skating ring. Skaters, man and woman perform a stage play. Skater girls' chorus' dance displays various formations. Bess Ehrhardt and Roy Shipstead take stellar honors.
Rock band-'The Beatles' arrives at New York City's John F. Kennedy Airport. A crowd of over three thousand teenagers at the airport terminal cheer for them. Four singers of the band descend from Pan Am “Yankee Clipper” flight 101 passenger aircraft. The Beatles are interviewed by press. The Beatles visit Central Park in Manhattan. Press photographers take photos.
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