St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-30
HARD ON COL. MCLAUGHLIN.
Mike aocha Identities "Dunbar" as
Flagg, of VerMssnt.
WHO SPEAKS HIS MIND
About Mclaughlin, Denouncing Him as
the Worst "Skin" Wrestler in
the Profession.
Special to the Globe.

| Special to the Globe.
Boston, Mass. Sept. 29.-Of course,
the GLOBE readers remember the Du-
fur-McLaughlin wrestling match in st.
Paul some two years ago. They also re-
member that Immediately after Nc
Laughlin was decl AIRED the winner, and
before the latter had the opportunity of
surrendering the belt, emblematic of
the worlds cha mpionship, to the MARI
boro tailor, stranger attracted the at
tention of the large crowd present.
This stranger, holding aloft roll of
bills of the realm, cried, ''You call these
| two men champions. / have $50 here
which says i can take fall out of either
of them tonight" OF course, this state
ment created a Juror. Mclaughlin,
you know, declined the challenge, and
the stranger was pitted against Ii. NJ.
Dufur. After wrestling for five or ten
minutes without either getting fall,
the affair was called a draw, and a
forfeit posted for regular match. The
match was made and subsequently
wrestled, Dufur winning. The ident ity
of the stranger was what at
trac ted the most attention. The local
papers recognized in him every wrestler
known to the sporting public. The
Pioneer Press was convinced that he
was blacksmith from the Pacific coast
known by the name of Farrell. The
GLOBE gave him dozen diff r mt
names, until Tom Holmes, who rep, I'd
the matches for that paper, by some
means or other identified the stranger as
George w. Flagg, the Vermont wrestler.
! Tom was positive of his man, but the
public thought otherwise, and they were
right in this, because Mclaughlin, who
acknowledged knowing Flagg, said
positively that it was not he. Let me.
right here, brand Col. Mclaughlin as
liar, for it was to me he made this state
! ment. The stranger was George w.
Flagg, of Vermont, for this very week
| was | able to convince myself of this
| fact. Thursday last happenedto be in
Waterbury, Vt. The county fair was
| set down a wrestling match between
| III. M. Dufur, of Marlboro, and SOrakI-
| chi, the Jap. Of course l remained for
| the sport. Imagine my surprise when
| the manager of the fair introduced Dun
! bar (the name the stranger gave in st.
! Paul., as GeorgeW. Flagg, the champion
wrestler of Vermont. Mr.. Flagg was TO
| act as referee. The match was inter-
rupted by rain after each man had won
fall, the Jap at catch-as-catch-can and
Dufur at collar and elbow. Between
the bouts | was introduced to Mr.. Flagg.
l acknowledged the introduction, by
saying, "How do you do Mr.. DUNBAR"
as | grasped the preferred hand. Mr..
Flagg looked at me sharply and replied:
! Il think you have made mistake,
sir"
"Dufur had informed him of my
presence, but as | showed great deal
of persistency Mr.. Flagg finally adj
mitted that he it was who wrestled in
! St. Paul under the name of Dunbar.
! Questioned as to the course he adopted,
| he said:
IL was after Mclaughlin. That man
| is the biggest skin who ever faced the
public. He is without doubt the poorest
wrestler of his class in the profession.
| How he has managed to ho0d-wink the
public so long l cannot understand. He
| can't WreStle little bit. Why, if l had
boy big enough to wrestle at all. and
| he could not throw this duffer, l would
break his back. went out to st. Paul
that trip solely for the purpose of get