Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-07
SOME WRESTLING NOTES.

Last season there was gang of Wfestiers, controlled and hanuled by Q wrestler of national reputation, who worked off a lot of fake wrest- ling matches all through this section Of the country. in one city, not very far from Boston. several "iobs'' were pulled off, by this gang, and at the latter end of the season the .'iobs' were so raw that there was q let-up in the business, so as not to kill off the good thing entirely. Now l am in formed the same kind of business is being worked up again. The city that stood for all the fake matches be- fore is ''cardcd'' as being very soft. The head of all this business is now travelling about with q company mak- ing an offer to throw any man in fifteen minutes. The man who puts in an appearance to accept the offer is q paid c,nploye. and they then indulge in q lot Of ''hot air'' and wrestling which is supposed to be on the level. The public are imposed upon. but the work is so clean that they do not know what is being handed them.- Boston Post. It would be well for Rob Roy to know what he is talking about before putting out such utter ''rot' as this. Some one must be Stringing you, old man, and we Know a few and can perhaps pin it down closer, that would be capable of trying it on.- pawtucket Times.
 Relative to the above, the readers of the Democrat will remember how, sav- eral seasons ago. one of our heavy weight wreStlers was touring the country, issuing challenges to any man in the world. and offering so much money to any wrestler he could not throw in such a length of time. It savored of fake, and the Democrat made an investigation and the conse- Quences were that the whole scheme was laid bare to the public. This combination was in Waterbury and after playing here two days the show was made to look like thirty cents when the people were acquainted with the facts in tie case At that time it looked as if there were four or five wrestlers in the game, and they were planted in advance of the show, ready to challenge or accept the challenge of | this heavyweight wrestler. It worked | we'll in some places until the Demo | crat's story came out, and then Cor. | necticut was given q. wide berth by this alleged band of wrestlers. So | incensed was one of the fakirs that he threatened to do up the writer of the article, but he was shown the lit tie green light that hung before the | police station and he was warned that | there is where he would land if he attempted any of his physical expert ments on the aforesaid writer. The | scheme was for one of the band to get | into a city week or two ahead of the | show and there to make friends with the newspaper men and even deposit money with some paper to make good his boast that he wanted to meet the heavyweight challenger. The one that struck this city was ''peach,
 and no mistake. They worked Hart
 ford and Bridgeport before they were finally driven to the wall The news
 paper writers should be on the alert for all such schemes and break them up if nossihle. As to the accusation ot the Pos+on Post we have no know' ledge i but we can say if it has any reference to Harvey Parker. that he has always | proven bimcn1f onon and above board i in this city in his matches.