Waterbury Democrat., 1901-12-20
WITH THE WRESTLERS.
One of the Warmest Contests. in the Wrestling Game Seen in Waterbury.

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 One of the Warmest Contests. in the Wrestling Game Seen in Waterbury.
 The dust will fly down at the Audi torium on Christmas afternoon when Professor Atlas of Bridgeport and Gid Perrie of Boston face each other on the mat to see who is the better man in the heavyweight class. It will be a mixed wrestling match and as Graeco- Roman is the style that suits Atlas and catch as catch can hits Per rie about right there will be q toss up for the first choice. That first fall will be warm one if there is a fall, for no matter what the style each man will put in his hardest. licks. Who ever wins the shortest, fall will have the choice of the third fall and Atlas says that he will have that choice while Perrie insists that he is talking through his hat With two giants facing each other and tugging and. straining to put each other to the mat there will be excitement enough to please the most exacti1lg. Certain it is whoever wins the match will re member that he has been through q hard days work.
 The preliminary is causing just as much interest as is the principal event for Professor Dwyer will undertake something he never did before What is the name of the unknown who is going up against him he has not yet found out. He has made every effort to do so, but the wrestler is shrouded ill mystery and at the training quar- ters of Atlas in Bridgeport it is hard to. gain admission unless you are well known. Atlas says :that he will beat Perrie and he also claims that the un- known will wrestle rings round Dwyer. The latter is not worrying very much because he fears no man at 160 pounds unless he is one of the top-notchers and he knows all those pretty well. No matter who the man is Dwyer will wrestle him, but if he is one of the big fellows he will not handicap himself. 1t will be the second one of the great wrestling carnivals held in this city and it bids fair to surpass any of the others.
 Steve O'Donnell. who has charge of number of wrestlers, has taken young Lawrence of Brooklyn under hfs wing. O'DonnelI wants to match Lawrence against any man at 135 pounds, bar. George Bofhner
 John Fleming, the. .'Butcher Boy,' says that he is willing to make a match with Nehmet Nachad. the Turk, even if the latter is unsuccessful in his con- test with Carl Norbeck. the champion of Norway. Fleming is prepared to meet Nachad at either Graeco-R Roman or catch as catch can style.
 Louis Steinagle, the Buffalo strong man, who recently won q weight-lift- ing contest at Buffalo for the cham pionship of New York state, has decid- ed to turn his attention to wrestling. Nate Fenton, the Buffalo sporting man and former packer of Kid Mccoy. has charge of Steinagle,s affairs and says that he will match him against any heavyweight, catch as catch can or Graeco-Roman style.
 Alexander Swanson, the clever light weight wrestler of 1Yonkers, met Jo- seph hamerer of New York at Teuton- Ia hall, 4onkers, on Monday night in a catch as catch can bout The. condi- tions were best two out of three falls to a finish. Although Kamerer had the advantage iR weight, he was no match for Swanson, Awho threw him twice in succession and got tile verdict. Jack Webber of Brooklyn and Bus Holtz figured in the preliminary and Holtz was the winner.
 In regard to the challenge of Jim PaiT, the English catch as catch can wrestler who is now in this country. George V. Tuohey. x Jenkins ! maira ger has this to say: sefore we agree to make . match with Parr for the cham pionship of the world. I. on behalf of Jenkins, request that Parr wrestle with any one of the several men whom Jenkins has beaten and thus prove that he is a worthy opponent of the Cleveland man. Paris record is 2 good one, but it is equally true that the men he has met ill. England do not class with the top-notch American wrestlers.'
 John Fleming, the Butcher Bow, had two opponents at the London thea ter on the Bowery last night, where he IS meeting all corners this week. They were Otto Hess of New York and Emile Schmidt of Brooklyn. Johnny Dunn agrees to give $25 to each man II they stay fifteen minutes with pien- ing. Hess was the first to tackle
  Fleming and catch as catch can rules prevailed. Fleming won in minutes and 10 seconds. Without any inter- mission Fleming took onx Emile Schmidt Fleming won the fall in 6 minutes. and B seconds. The pair met at Graeco-R Roman style. Young Acton, who is filling an engagement at the same theater in conjunction with Fleming. also met two men. Max Bo- land of Newark was the first He was thrown in four minutes. Harry Leroy of England followed Leroy made good spurt at the start: but Acton was too quick for him and tGe Englishman was defeated in 3 minutes and l4 seconds. Both bouts were de -cided at catch as catch can. Tn the afternoon Piening's adversary was Claus Rodenback. The latter was thrown in minutes and IS seconds. Young Acton met Leo Metz and won in 6 minutes and g seconds.