Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-15
WEIGH WON.
All Three Falls Awarded on
Breaking Hold.

Tha wrestling match at Tomasi's hall
last night between Edward Desc OF st.
Adams, and Henry Welch of Mon'pe-
lier, resulted in victory for the latter.
At 8 80 o'clock William Reynolds
took his seat at the piano and played
several selections to keep The rather
small crowd Of sporting men quiet till
the wrestlers appeared. As they sill
wanted more time, II wrestling match
was arranged between Phil Ladeau and
Oreste Barr, two newsboys. They kept
the crowd amused for a few minutes,
Barr finally winning best three in i've
Barr then wrestled Charlie Marshall,
another newsDoy, and got defeated.
At 9 :O5 WEIGH and Desc walked into
the hall and took their positions on the
carpet. Bert Slayton acted as master
Of ceremonies and introduced james
Markham US referee, the two wrestlers,
with +. Bruce us Deso's second and
James O'Neil as Welch's second.
Desc wore white tights with a red
trunk, and Wells had on black tights
with variegated green trunk.
1t is claimed that Desc weighed l4O
pounds and WEIGH l65. WEIGH is
considerable taller than Desc and looks
to be twenty pounds heavier. They
shook hands at 9.lOand Markham called
..wrcslle" few moments later.
Desc did all the work and Welch
simply matched him and fooled all his
attempts. Desc kept trying to get
hiplock but could not do it, WEIGH tried
to wiring Desc but could not do it BY
a trip and twitch WEIGH got Desc Oh
his face and Deso's jacket came off over
his bead in tho scrimmag". For the
next few minutes Desc KEEP, trying for
a hip lock and Welch simply avoided
fall, trying trip and twitch orcasi"n-
ally. Desc tried hplock but failed.
Welch claimed fall on Desc breaking
hold. The referee didn't see it.
Bruce kicked on Welch's jackc!,
claiming the sleeves were too tight.
Referee called '.wrestle.'' Desc got in
some fancy work with his feet, W-lch
seldom doing anything of that sor'.
Welch tried to cross toe, but failed.
Desc tried hiplock but failed. In the
scrimmage both went on the floor and
the referee gave Welch first fall at $50
on account of Desc breaking hold.
AT 9.55 they again took positions,
changing jackets by mutual agreement.
Welch claimed Deso's jacket was too
large and Bruce objected to Welch's
jacket on account of small sleeves
After the change the wrestlers held
protracted "cake walk" around the car
pet till the audiance began to call for
work. Desc tried trip and twitch and
Welch got him on his face. Desc tried
hiplock but failed. Welch tried to cross
toe and both went down and off the
carpet. No fall.
Desc kept trying for hiplock.
Welch with wiring had Desc on his
face again. Welch tried for hiplock
for the first time during the match but
failed. He got Desc on his face again
WEIGH tried hiplock but failed and in
the mixup that followed Desc got Il fall
at 1920 by WEIGH breaking hold.
As soon as the men were in their
rooms O'Neil put up big kick about
the jacket Desc wore the first time and
Weleh the second. Bruce kicked on
the other one and they finally sent
man out to get two jackets just alike.
AT 1l.3 they came on the carpet
again each wearing blue jean jacket
No ~ and another "cake walk" fol-
lowed.
Desc tried trip and witch aud both
were down. Foul. Wech tried a
wiring but failed. In a general wiring
Ing nnd twitching mixup that followed
Desc broke his hold while standing per
fsctly straight and the referee called il
a fall for WEIGH, giving him the match.
After the match there was some talk
about arranging other contests, but
nothing definite was done.