The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-07-04
WRESTLING
HOW Easily Men can Act Like Beasts.

&Ao&Ay ~ III ACL Like deABGHs
Brooklyn Eagle s.Iife in New York.
Ii ever there was a thoroughly honest
wrestling match it was that at Irving
Hall between Ross and Sorakichi. The
Japanese and S%cotchman wrestled
about two months ago in Cleveland.
In the West Ross is a great man. He
is a hacker Of prize fighters and other
athletes, and he is a wrestler himself of
no mean powers. At one time he claim
ed the championship at catch-as-catch-
q wrestling. He is six feet high, has
a pair OF enormous shoulders, and is
quick and clever. When Sorakichi
went out to Cleveland to wrestle with
Ross men travelled from the surround
ing cities to see the match. Ross felt
good humored. He had looked the
Japanese over, and came to the conclu-
sion that he could do him up with one
arm. Sorakichi's head only came little
above the l,rawny Scots elbow when he
stood alongside of him. He could east
ly walk under his arm, and his
weight was forty pounds less than that
OF Ross. They faced each
other in Cleveland, and after an hours
terrific work they left the stage. Ross
went to bed to nurse a broken rib, u
spralned wrist, and one or two other
slight mementoes of the match, and
Sorakichi went to hospital for repairs.
When they came up for their second
contest in New York both men were in
nm ugly temper. They sprang at each
other like bull dogs, and fairly fought
as they wrestled. Despite the enormous
disparity in size and weight the japanese
held his own with his gigantic antagon-
list. Sorakichi is the strongest man Of
his size and weight in America, without
the slightest doubt. On the stage the
wrestlers looked liked a giant and a
pigmy striving for the mastery. 1t
took the giant n hour and four min
utes to throw the pigmy in this instance.
Ross attempted to break the left arm
OF the Japanese once, and would have
done it had it not been for the threats
and Kisses of the audience. It is not
generally considered so, but wrestling
is more dangerous, than sparring.
In San Francisco a few weeks ago,
Whistler was wrestling with Muldoon,
when the latter caught a back lock on
him and deliberately twisted his arm;
the result was a broken wrist for Whist
Ter. This broken wrist of Whistler's
must make Dnfur, now champion Of
New England, smile if he remembers
as he doubtless does-his match with
Whistler some years ago in Germania
Hall. There were very few men pres
emit ut the contest, as it was arranged
very quickly and. not advertised. The
two wrestlers sprang upon the stage
about 8 o'clock and went r%esoluteIy to
work. Each had a considerable amount
of money on the match and they wrest-
led for all they were worth. Toward
the end Of the first bout Whistler got
Dufur down with his Dufur's) left arm
twisted behind his back. Whistler
seized the left hand of the fallen athlete
with both of his brawny fists and be-
gan to pull it backward. He was en-
deavoring to hurt Dufur so badly that
the latter would have to give in and
drop his other shoulder to the floor so
as to constitute a fall. Dufur resolute-
ly, and with Spartan endurance, with
stood the strain. It is necessary, in
order to secure y fall at catch-as-catch-
can wrestling to press two hips
and one shoulder, or two shoulders and
n hip to the floor. Whistler was try.
ing to force Dufur to the floor by delib-
erately pulling his arm out OF joint.
The men were dripping wet and Whist
Ter had his teeth set like a bull dog
Every drop of blood went from Dufur's
face, leaving him as white as a ghost.
His friends begged him to give in, but
he was stubborn and refused. Then he
gasped, gave a short cry that sounded
like a woman's voice, and sank half in
sensible on the stage. A small scarlet
spot as big rs a penny appeared Oh his
shoulder, and when he was helped to
his feet his arm hung ~lifeless at his side.
1t was an exhibition OF brutality which
| have never seen equalled at a boxing
match. His arm was pulled into place,
and in o months time it was as strong
rs ever. A man who is thoroughly de-
veloped and in good condition can stand
a strain that will cripple an ordinary
a another instance of the dangers
that the wrestlers run has just come I'M
der my notice: William Miller, a we'll
known athlete, while wrestling with
Donald Din1ie wa thrown so roughly
by the Scotchman that his right leg was
broken in two places. Miller will bs
crippled all the rest Of his life.