On 20 September 1973, about 90 million people turned on their televisions to watch the “Battle of the Sexes” – a tennis match between the loudly chauvinist former men’s champion Bobby Riggs and the reigning women’s No 1, Billie Jean King. She arrived on a litter carried by topless men; he on a rickshaw drawn by female models. He presented her with a novelty-size lollipop.
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