Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-03
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i OK GER ON IN EIOyv
For the T,mes- Republican.
Hampton, Nov. 2. There is something
q bout wrestling match that sugg ettA
the old gladiator tines. The adweI-;
tised9 Greco Roman tch-cans
SIN cks Of the great ganiessof the world.
And So when !" Farmer Burns at Iowa
Fails let us know that for 80 cents We
could see real tussie of strength. sci-
ence thrown In. we went. 1t must be
admitted that since the writer became
q foot ball crank any kind of sport that
VIII half kill some body appeals strong
~ to him. Soithe writer gathered with
300 other cid sports in Lconard's Hall
TO see a neck broken, an arm pulled out.
LOT joint or perhaps a few ribs broken
Eor the life squeezed out Of the other fell
low. Now the Lpoker-On understands
Why a wrestling match does not inter
est the gentleri sex. Now lie knows why
800 go to a wrestling match and 5000 to
foot ball game. Neither the Greeks
nor the Romans would have patronized
such A tame affair as a wrestling match
~ foot ball had been invented. Foot
bail belorgs to the Christian era. But
Id get back 10 the hall. 1t seems that
Farmer Burns had a show on a Sat
urday night and rasiliy offered SIS to
any man who would stand up before
one of his professionals fifteen minutes.
man fro,t. n farm near Radcliffe did
stand up fifteen minutes. Then a
match was made. for the stand up to
w.restle a regular match for $50 a side
and gate receipts With another Of the
professionals and the stand UP hrcH
the professional twice out of three
times. So apparently We saw square
fight. Some of the readers of this col-
ufnn have never seen wrestling
match. Its a poor show beside foot
ball Two men stripped to the skin. ex-
cepting breech clouts. walk up and
shake hands Then they put their arms
affectionately around one another's
necks and hug one another. As sUon as
one gets tired Of this he gets down on
This hands and knees and the other fell
low tries to tip him over on his back,
and when his shoulder blades touch the
floor The referee says 50, and the thing
is over. Nobody set,s hurt there Is no
Swearing. and for foot ball crank It's!
a tame AFFAIR.
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Farmer Burns delivers each even
Ing a short lecture on bodily culture. He
advises the use of the gymnasium and
wrestling matches. He says if the.
sissy ciga.et-snoking dudes in some
LOT our colleges would go in more for
this kind OF work the concert hall and.
Worse. would rot have so much attrac-5
tion fer said dude. Only Burns does not
use just this language. Calls spade
a spade, 4 gain in this lecture Burns.
says there are four things he does not
do. He does not smoke, chew. swear or
drink Intoxicating liquors. Again he
claims man is at his best when his
flesh is not hard, but elastic To illus
trate, he strikes himself a half dozen!
strong blows in the pit OF the stomach.
Burns ss3ys n prize fighter can be a poor
werstier, and vice versa. He did not
say either OF. both could be foot bah
Itsxer, but the writer speaking in his
.ofIis;ial sporting editorial capacity vii!
suara ,itse that ii :" Farmer Burns and!
his three Grmco-R Roman Wrestiers viii
lineup in a foot bali match against the
second eleven slim Jims Of B. College
! we will break their legs, sprain their
ankles, smother them or cripple them
for life. Farmer Burns may know
something about bodily culture, but 70
nave the real cult let The eleven sim
iJfms all together run and jump on him
and he will then know what a modern.
game is. He'll get tired going over the
country and giving his Grace Roman
weak exhibitions. Up here In Hampton
they have added an Traditional enjoyable
Feature to the noble game IT foot ball.
Already in a recent game these athletes
ran down the editor Of a weekly paper
/ and broke his leg This by high
school team, When they get into coll
lege it is more than likely they Will
break the neck Of the editor of some
daily.
| lis easy to go from foot ball to cree
t,natien In the same line. Few realize
what a gain In sentiment Is In Iowa as
well as elsewhere in favor OF incinera
ltion. A friend who has lately made a
practical application of this compare
tively old-new form of caring for our
dead says:
In the first ten years cremation was
Ipracticed In the United States from 1876
Ito 1885 there were just seventy !ncinera-
4 tons. and from 1886 to 1896 there were
4,475 At the Davenport crematoriun
There have been 80 far twenty-one in
Generations this year. and eighteen dur
ling the entire year, Jan. !, 1899, to 1900,
lit Is slowly but surely gaining friends
among the thinking people. The plant
/ cost 10000; there Will soon have to be
/ a new retort that will cost $1,000. The
company is organized purely az a phil
4 a nj hror,ic5 one and is never expected TO
.tpay back the money put into 1t. Nd of
4 flcer Of the company received any sal
larry, excepting Of course the man in
sscharge They burn coke; IT takes eight
zen hours to get up neat there is no
flame or smoke to be seen or anything
lin the least repulsiSe, and everything
lis neat and clean"
Il Not to introduce religious discus
y sion. but to inquire into the religious
s. 3haltef q Or t}et lack of them among the